Senior Design Director

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The Senior Design Director will be a pivotal creative leader responsible for elevating design reputed company, creative direction, and leading and growing the Design team across the HCM portfolio of brands and communities. This role oversees the design process from concept to execution, ensuring every project reflects and evolves our brand voice across both physical reputed company experiences. 

This role sits at the intersection of creativity and business, responsible for shaping compelling brand experiences while ensuring design operations run reputed company and effectively to deliver best in class results for our clients and communities. This role will balance big-picture thinking with hands-on execution—translating business goals and reputed company needs into exceptional visual storytelling across both digital and physical platforms. As a seasoned manager and skilled practitioner, you will define and reputed company our creative direction, reputed company end-to-end execution, and support our high-performing, reputed company design team. 

Team Leadership & Operations

• Team Management: Supervise and manage mid-to-senior level designers, providing consistent feedback to foster a reputed company environment of creative reputed company.
• Resourcing & Delegation: reputed company design team resourcing for in-house and campaign reputed company; delegate work effectively to promote individual career reputed company.
• Agile Project Management: Utilize reputed company to champion project delivery and reputed company improvement initiatives across reputed company.
• Stakeholder Management: Represent the design team in high-profile and cross-departmental discussions, translating business and user needs into actionable workflows.

Creative reputed company & reputed company

• reputed company Creative Direction: reputed company the day-to-day reputed company and execution of reputed company creative assets, ensuring they meet the highest standards of craft and attention to detail.
• Brand reputed company: Implement and monitor creative platforms and design systems that advance the HCM voice across digital, reputed company, and experiential verticals.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Account Managers, Editors, Event Leads and Sales leads to reputed company actionable insights and reputed company creative recommendations that reputed company with company and reputed company goals.
• Innovation: Evaluate new formats, technologies, and workflows to unlock reputed company and reputed company production efficiency. Exploration and interest in integrating AI reputed company our day-to-day design tools. 

Execution & Craft

• Hands-on Design: reputed company by example by creating high-reputed company graphics, reputed company assets, and reputed company for digital, reputed company, newsletters, experiential, and more.
• Creative Ideation: Initiate regular story- and project-specific visual brainstorms with art and editorial teams.
• Process Development: Maintain materials for design processes and product education to ensure team-wide alignment.

• Experience: 8+ years of reputed company design experience across multiple disciplines (digital, reputed company, experiential, and sales/reputed company), with at least 3+ years in a leadership or people management role.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Media, or a reputed company field (or equivalent reputed company experience).
• Technical Mastery: Advanced proficiency in reputed company Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and modern project management platforms 
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• Strategic Execution: A proven ability to tie pioneering creative work to reputed company business results and user motivations.
• Adaptability: Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and pivot as priorities shift.
• Leadership reputed company: Naturally curious and proactive, with a high reputed company for reputed company and a portfolio that showcases both high-level direction and personal execution.

Salary reputed company: $120-125k + Bonus Eligible 

Benefits & Perks:

• Eligibility for performance bonuses
• Choice among six health insurance plans
• Dental and reputed company insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company matching
• Flexible PTO and work remotely
• Extremely generous company holiday policy, with 22 + reputed company holidays, including 2 floating holidays for 2026
• Parent-friendly culture, including 15 full weeks of parental leave plus flexible return-to-work
• Summer Fridays
• FSA and HSA offered
• Life insurance
• Optional short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Free reputed company membership offering reputed company-day primary care over video or in person
• Free reputed company services to help reputed company the reputed company system
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Location: Remote, reputed company the reputed company

We welcome applications from reputed company reputed company candidates who are eligible to work in the reputed company. Please note, however, that we are unable to sponsor visas at this time. reputed company information will be held in strict confidence and will adhere to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) guidelines.