Associate Director, Experience Design

Company Description

Digitas is the Connected Marketing agency, built on the principle that there are better ways for brands to connect with people. We leverage comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities to deliver Media-Fueled Creativity via connected Solutions that include Connected Campaigns, Social Marketing, Brand Experience, CRM & Loyalty, and Marketing Transformation. A Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies for six consecutive years, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 4,000 employees across over 30 countries and 50 offices. For more information visit www.digitas.com

Job Description

Our Experience Design team crafts digital experiences people love to use. We are collaborators and innovators who thrive in multidisciplinary teams. We can start from a blank page and help realize the vision for a great experience, and aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty making that vision a reality.

Our experience runs the gamut from site to mobile, eCom to campaign, marketing to editorial to product, with one foot in beautiful visual expressions and the other in rock-solid user experience. At heart we are designers who love creating new, meaningful experiences and are well versed in the practice of modern digital experience creation.

We’re looking for a leader who will help set the vision for their teams and their projects. You’ll be as comfortable sweating the details of a design interaction as you are presenting your teams’ work. You’ll be a mentor and a manager, developing talent to be their best. And you’re passionate about growing your own talent, as well.

Sound good? Good.

Qualifications

Things we want to see in you:

• A portfolio of beautiful, usable experiences designed for all kinds of devices and contexts, showcasing impactful experiences for products and platforms, campaigns and content
• Hybrid design experience: strong UX fundamentals paired up with refined UI and visual design skills
• Well versed in the fundamentals of visual design: color, typography, illustration, motion, etc.
• (Not so) basic prototyping capabilities
• Exceptional ability to create, maintain, evolve and use a design system
• Strong experience in discovery-based activities, user research, and agile processes
• Demonstrated ability to think holistically about an experience to ensure user and business needs are met
• Competency to create site maps, wireframes, user flows, journey maps and other experience models
• Complete comfort sketching and riffing with a team to arrive at exceptional design solutions
• Experience partnering with other capabilities to strategize, design and build the work, including annotating complex interactions
• High level of proficiency in Figma, InVision, Sketch and Adobe CC
• Amazingly awesome written and presentation skills that showcase passion, informed opinions and design rationale
• Strong experience leading project teams of designers and content strategists to produce on time and quality deliverables – you must be able to get briefed on a new project, collaborate with a team to tackle the challenge, and manage, organize and defend the work of your team members, while also contributing to the day to day outputs
• At least a couple years of experience managing and mentoring direct reports and junior talent in their career growth
• 6–8 years of experience being amazing at your craft