Remote Associate Design Director

Summary

Join Instrument, a remote-first digital product and brand experience agency, as an experienced visual and interactive designer. You will lead teams, establish design excellence, innovate best practices, and evolve the design practice through your work.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading teams in shipping high impact, successful digital brand and marketing experiences
• Rock solid foundation in visual design, content creation, art direction, and brand design, with a strong understanding of motion in your work
• Strategic problem solving skills and the capacity to distill complex information into meaningful concepts or ideas
• Strong verbal and visual presentation skills that get across the process, approach, and impact of your design
• A mind for best practices, paired with a willingness to try something just crazy enough to work
• Ability to move quickly to prove out ideas, and a learning mindset
• Expertise in current industry tools with the ability to adapt to new technologies
• Strong sense of ethics, and responsibility in understanding the way the work we do influences the world around us
• Emotional maturity and awareness, utilizing multiple styles of communication and influence to come to the best result for our clients and team
• Curiosity, humility, and a passion for doing great work

Responsibilities

• Move quickly from thinking to doing
• Give shape to bold ideas through execution
• Establish the bar for design thinking and execution on the team, innovate best practices, and evolve the design practice through the work
• Lead a project and team autonomously with limited process and hierarchy in place
• Collaborate with designers, producers, developers, and clients to understand what a project needs at any given moment in an effort to move the work forward
• Create smart and strategic thinking, illustrated by concise and articulate presentations
• Make sense of complex systems and conjure inventive solutions through distillation and experimentation
• Ground the work in a deep understanding of the client and push on strategic insights to stretch creative opportunities
• Provide feedback to team members via creative reviews and mentor through the work
• Work proactively to find solutions and maintain momentum in our projects
• Help the team adapt to evolving conditions and buoy others’ creative efforts

Benefits

• Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment
• Great Compensation with Annual Reviews
• Annual Profit Sharing
• 401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting
• Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance
• Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO
• Sabbaticals
• Monthly Wellbeing Stipend
• Career Management and Leadership Training