Lead Designer

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📋 Description

• Own design output across the client portfolio, from initial concept through final delivery.
• Translate loose direction into several distinct creative directions quickly, allowing clients to react, combine, and select ideas.
• Produce brand-caliber creative for national accounts, with a visual standard comparable to work from a large agency.
• Maintain quality control across all design work leaving the agency, including reviewing and elevating work produced by other team members.
• Ensure consistency and accuracy across copy, specifications, calls to action, and brand guidelines.
• Partner closely with the technical lead on projects that move from design into development or production.

🎯 Requirements

• A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual range, finished polish, and experience working on projects with meaningful brand stakes.
• Senior-level conceptual ability, with the confidence to begin from a blank page and generate multiple creative options from an idea or broad visual direction.
• The ability to work quickly and consistently, producing strong first drafts that require refinement rather than a complete redesign.
• Genuine fluency with AI creative tools and a demonstrable process for using them to generate concepts, evaluate outputs, and develop finished creative.
• Strong client-facing presence, with the ability to present, defend, and adjust creative work when engaging with senior marketing stakeholders.
• Ability to work during US Central Time business hours.
• Tools:
  • Required: Adobe Creative Suite, with real depth in Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
  • Required: Working fluency with current AI creative tooling and a demonstrable process for using it.
  • Strongly preferred: Figma, for UI and UX work and for collaboration with development.
  • A plus: Motion, animation, or video capability, and comfort with email design and build.

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