Associate Design Director / Branding

Roles and Responsibilities

As an Associate Design Director at Decoded, you’ll be collaborating with a range of creative roles across the agency and within our Studio, while directly leading a team of Designers to develop concepts that inform a range of solutions. Reporting directly to, and working closely with the Design Director, you are responsible for holding your team to a high standard of quality, as well as encouraging them to always push work creatively into fresh territories.

Experimentation and learning are important components of our creative process. As an Associate Design Director you will lead by example in thinking systemically and designing iteratively; setting a high bar for the rest of the team and helping develop their skills. 

Skills

• 6+ years of professional design experience within an agency, studio, or similar environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing other designers.
• Experience balancing multiple accounts or projects, in tandem with producers, project managers, and a range of creative collaborators across the agency.
• Ability to quickly explore and establish creative concepts, leading designers to generate iterative work, and present a range of design solutions to management and clients.
• Experience in generating brand guidelines and building visual identities.
• Must have a rigorous attention to detail.
• Strong typographic skills and a fluency with grid systems.
• Proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. 
• After Effects and motion skills are a plus.
• Familiarity with Figma is a plus.
• Able to meet deadlines and maintain clear dialogue with teammates.

Compensation

The anticipated salary range for this position is $120K - $135K annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, generous paid time off, and other benefits also are available.

About The Company

Decoded, now part of Media.Monks and S4Capital, is a full-funnel marketing, advertising and design company creating breakthrough campaigns with unrivaled performance. Challenging convention, it took some of the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations and commerce. Decoded services global clients like T-Mobile, Intuit, Visa, CareerBuilder and SC Johnson from its offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Decoded Advertising is a new kind of agency, built from the ground up by award winning creatives, top data scientists and cutting-edge media people willing to defect from the old agency model to create smarter work. Decoded has the first truly integrated creative, tech and media process designed to drive better performance for clients by uncovering the levers that produce powerful ideas and drive real media performance. A spirit of curiosity, relentless creativity and data informed decision making define our culture and people.

In everything you do, you will be data driven at heart, leveraging core statistical principles to help us separate the signal from the noise, and ensure your strategic decisions are backed with analytical rigor.

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace d