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Principal, Visual Design
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California | Illinois | New York
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$96.2K - $170K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal, Visual Design
DEPT®
• Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people. • Lead and mentor the creative team, fostering a collaborative, optimistic, and proactive culture. • Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first. • Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including websites, branding, UX, and content). • Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation. • Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines. • Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed. • Identify key client decision-makers and leverage excellent interpersonal skills to grow and maintain these relationships, collaborating across all internal departments and external stakeholders to achieve desired results. • Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience in design and interactive work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout) and familiarity with essential collaboration tools (e.g., Hubspot, Google Suite, Slack).
- Strong knowledge and experience in visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, and brand development. Experience developing and maintaining a robust design system.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic vision and creative inspiration to large, diverse teams.
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Highly detail-oriented, proactive, comfortable navigating complex organizations, and focused on strategic problem-solving and process efficiency.
Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401K plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
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