Remote Design Director, Project Lead

Summary

The job is for a Design Director at Upstatement, a digital product studio that works with ethical and mission-driven organizations. The role involves leading design projects, engaging clients, collaborating with teams, driving research, defining strategy, and expanding capabilities. The position is temporary with potential of becoming permanent and fully remote.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on design and project leadership experience at a digital agency or equivalent
• Independent design leader with a portfolio of work demonstrating business impact across products, and websites
• Expertise in leading research programs - ethnographic interviews, workshops, competitive audits - that result in impactful design executions
• Capable of breaking down complexity and understanding the business context of each client
• Displays craft by designing around new concepts. Helps clients succeed with tools and guidelines
• Ability to motivate and manage a multidisciplinary team
• Transforms design concepts into user interfaces and establishes comprehensive design systems
• Strong communicator and active listener with the ability to inspire any room to buy into the team's vision
• Sets the pace of velocity and efficiency through every step of the process, course correcting based on feedback and improving how we work together
• Support business development initiatives as a creative representative

Responsibilities

• Deliver portfolio-worthy work
• Engage clients
• Collaborate with and develop others
• Drive research
• Define the why
• Make from the start
• Navigate complexity
• Promote expertise
• Expand capabilities
• Continuously improve