As a freelance Creative Director, you bring excellent visual problem solving & creative thinking to your team & onsite with clients. Fast on your feet, you adeptly juggle multiple projects & their deadlinesfor yourself & your teamto exceed the needs & goals of all stakeholders. Through encouraging design best practices, you play an instrumental role growing the agencys business, culture, & brand. And youre definitely interested in recruiting sharp, skillful, & engaged CMers to your project teams. Most importantly, you are passionate about creativity, typography, design systems, with a commitment to simple, clean design.

You Will

• Lead the design of a digital design system, both building from established patterns & iterating on new design components to evolve the system
• Be a hands-on creative lead with the desire & capability to manage a small design team
• Build & maintain creative culture within the design team
• Understand skillsets & personalities of team members to find areas for opportunity or improvement
• Collaborate, prioritize, & delegate to a small team of designers while keeping your individual work streams on track
• Establish strong rapport with other discipline leads, collaborating with Account, Strategy, UX & Content/Copy peers
• Act as a lead representing the design discipline in recurring status meetings for all active & potential projects
• Stay familiar with the latest trends & work in the digital design industry

You Have

• 8+ years relevant experience in a creative or marketing organization
• Experience in a lead design role within a project-based strategic, creative, or technical agency environment
• A portfolio of relevant experience design work that you can share (ideally, site or app-based work)
• Experience that leans towards digital design, responsive layout & hierarchy, experience flows, or ecommerce
• An interest in design systems & strong working knowledge of Figma & other industry standard creative tools
• Confidence interfacing with clients; presenting work & managing the design & feedback processes
• Knowledge of digital processes & the creative process
• A test & learn mindset with the willingness to embrace & adapt to change
• Ability to thrive in a creative, fast-paced environment