Associate Director, Design

Summary

Join Bounteous as an Associate Creative Director and lead, inspire, and motivate teams to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions. Shape creative strategies and deliverables across various digital channels. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and clients to establish strategies and align goals. Ensure creative deliverables meet project goals, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards. Oversee quality and consistency of digital design deliverables. This role offers a director path for high-potential leaders, focusing on developing leadership expertise and contributing to the growth of Bounteous's XD practice. The ideal candidate is a highly experienced, multidisciplinary creative leader with a passion for human-centered design.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a creative professional, with a focus on design, user experience, and storytelling
• A diverse portfolio which demonstrates in-depth digital design experience, outstanding craft, and strategic thinking, with multiple examples of mobile design

Responsibilities

• Leads, inspires, and motivates teams to create and deliver influential, innovative, best-in-class, customer-centric solutions that drive business goals
• Shapes and directs creative strategy and deliverables from concepts through execution for a variety of digital channels, platforms, and experiences
• Facilitates and oversees discovery and creative activities such as experience strategy development, design workshops, conceptual design, copywriting and art direction, production oversight, and concepting for photoshoots and video production
• Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams and partners closely with clients to establish strategy, and align goals with tactics
• Ensures all creative deliverables align with overarching project goals and strategy, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards
• Oversees quality, consistency, and feasibility of digital design deliverables, ensuring they meet the needs of development and technical teams
• Participates in broader practice and organization efforts related to our team’s capabilities, growth, culture, and values
• Is a career coach for other XD team members to set and work towards career goals, and help identify training and development needs
• Supports initiatives to up-skill our team in the craft and elevates the quality of our work
• Assists in practice development initiatives and supports team recruiting efforts
• Contributes to new business development and organic growth through solutioning, scoping, and creative concepting
• Consistently shares trends, new methods and tools, and training opportunities
• Participates and/or presents at industry conferences and events and within local design communities
• Contributes to thought leadership such as industry articles and blog posts
• Juggles multiple clients, projects, and tracks of work simultaneously
• Manages time effectively and proactively communicates with project team members
• Proactively manage and prioritize tasks independently, taking ownership of projects from start to finish while adapting to evolving client requirements and priorities
• Maintain clear and open communication across teams and clients, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned and informed as project scopes shift and new opportunities arise
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced environment, readily shifting focus to new initiatives and delivering tailored solutions to meet diverse client needs
• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting/Agency experience
• Experience mentoring and managing project teams and direct reports
• Experience leading projects with a strong voice for creative and meticulous eye for detail
• Ability to provide creative direction as well as overall leadership support for strategic and account direction
• Experience in estimating, pitching, planning, and staffing work
• Excellent presentation skills and communication abilities
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience in Adobe After Effects or similar motion graphics programs
• Excellent listener with a passion for human-centered design

Benefits

• Employee resource groups (ERGs)
• Sponsorship for eligible candidates for employment visas
• Remote work