Description:
We are looking for a digital ACD of Design with world-class expertise in user interaction design, graphic design, motion design and a passion for helping junior designers, other creative team members and clients craft and build experiences based on modern design systems. As an ACD of Design, you will help lead creative projects and design award-winning work across a number of design service offerings for multiple clients of Merkle. You will be a combination of hands-on visual designer and creative workstream leader, helping structure and drive our design process and working to inspire deep collaboration within your creative studio and with the client team. You will be a problem solver, a creative strategist and creative sales advocate, while always exhibiting world-leading design aesthetic, relentlessly pursuing the best possible design outcomes, and striving for innovative solutions.
IN THIS POSITION YOU WILL
- Play an active role in new business pitches (both regionally and potentially globally) working along with your Group Creative Director
- Personally design and help others create world-class design solutions for digital marketing and commerce experiences, digital products, and digital systems
- Take a leading role in the presentation of design concepts and executions to clients with presentations that merge creative storytelling with genuine business insights to articulate and sell ideas
- Help lead and work closely with other designers, experience designers, experience strategists and partners to deliver projects of exceptional quality from start to finish
- Advocate for customer-centric ways to create value and solve problems for client businesses
- When needed, help moderate and co-lead client-facing workshops and presentations, collaborate in discovery research and user testing, helping turn qualitative data into actionable insights and opportunities
- Personally help define (and oversee the work of others helping to define) digital brand visual identity systems and atomic design pattern libraries
- Personally design and help mentor other designers in the creation of design concepts, visual design comps, clickable prototypes and more
- Understand our clients’ target audience and look for unique opportunities to reach them through a variety of channels
- Stay apprised of social trends and produce unique ideas and designs that produce engagement
- Think systematically about the client’s goals and develop holistic design solutions
- Mentor and inspire and elevate the design product that comes out of your studio
- Assist in the formation of project budgets and risk assessments
- Partner with studio leadership to drive resolution of issues with projects
- Help develop and grow the skills and expertise of the more junior members of your creative studio team
- Champion our agency, helping recruit the next generation of creative talent to join our company
- Help lead the evaluation, experimentation and adoption of new design tools (including Generative AI tools) within our Merkle design process
- Be an active contributor and leader within our Merkle design community, helping to build and amplify our culture of creativity, design and innovation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of degree, equivalent experience in a relevant field required
- Fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office/Teams
- Emerging fluency with Generative AI design tools
- Experience working with distributed creative teams
- Deep experience in digital product design, systems design, service design, commerce design and overall digital experience design
- Experience participating in projects involving:
- Design Thinking/Product Thinking
- Lean Start-Up/Lean UX Design
- Rapid Prototyping/Systems Interface Development
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies
- Eagerness to take on design challenges, collaborate and grow professionally.
- Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills