Constructive · 4 hours ago

Design Director, Social Impact Design Agency

NYC Metro Area

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$130K/yr - $145K/yr

7+ years exp

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Matt Schwartz

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Responsibilities

Produce exceptional design work. You and your team consistently create strategic design with an exceptional level of attention to design fundamentals that meets our standards and continuously sets the bar higher.

Lead our design team. You manage, mentor, and elevate our design team—inspiring them, strengthening their skills, and continuously coaching them to think through design challenges as they seek greatness in their work.

Develop design strategies. You develop design strategies in collaboration with Constructive’s team and through client workshops that establish the principles and rationales for how design solutions support brand goals.

Lead client presentations. You present work persuasively, articulate how design solutions deliver on strategy, and steer critical conversations to balance the need to integrate client feedback with the need to advocate for effective design.

Collaborate across teams. You work closely with our Strategy, UX, and Engineering teams and with our Creative Director to ensure that design vision is effectively translated into final deliverables.

Support resourcing and project health. You make design team assignments, contribute in resourcing meetings, and work with project managers to ensure that design work is tracking to scope, budget, and timeline.

Grow our design team. You build relationships with talented designers to both join our team and contribute as freelancers to help produce work that meets our standards and delivers results.

Contribute thought leadership. You help our Marketing Lead produce thought leadership on design practices by sharing your ideas so that they can be turned into articles, webinars, and other content marketing.

Qualification

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Required

Strong alignment with our core values.

At least 7 years of design experience, primarily in agency settings.

At least 3 years of experience actively managing and overseeing a design team.

A strong eye for visual design fundamentals—typography, color systems, grid theory, and information organization.

Extensive experience building creatively-inspired brand identities and design systems.

Significant experience designing large-scale, content-rich websites and design systems with significant editorial needs.

Collaborative leadership capabilities with the ability to manage designers and manage up to the Creative Director.

Exceptional presentation and speaking skills with the ability to build trust with clients, persuasively articulate ideas without being pushy, and facilitate strategic feedback conversations.

An allergic reaction to mediocre work, an unrelenting eye for detail, and an insistence that any work we produce meets our highest standards and honors our clients’ trust in us.

Strong experience with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.