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Reports to ACD, Frameworks & Design SystemsOn the Frameworks & Design Systems team, a Senior Art Director supervises a small team of designers and serves as the key point of contact for a specific project. They collaborate closely with the creative, technical, and management disciplines to discover opportunities for alignment, advise priority, provide design direction, and, on occasion, actively construct thoughtful and elegant design systems that support marketing experiences. This leadership (and occasionally hands-on design) role juggles cross-team and cross-disciplinary relationships, creativity, and logic to guarantee a thoughtful expansion of our design system is achieved. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication and presentation skills, has led a team of designers, and contributes to positive collaboration with product design teams; a strong understanding of branding principles, style guides, and product design; an elegant design aesthetic, with exceptional attention to detail; Photoshop and Sketch expertise, as well as a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and React; and a strong understanding of branding principles, style guides, and product design.ResponsibilitiesSystematic Design Leader- Provide oversight to a small team of designers who create holistic, elegant, extended design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail.
- Provide direction which honors current theory and implementations, as well as thoughtful extensions.- Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible, and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales. Ensure designs are stress tested across all possible variations, and refine as needed.- Explore prototypes to convey states, animations, and/or proposed behaviors.- Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designers and development, as well as creative leadership.- Review drafts and prepare user documentation. Collaborator- Work closely with ACD and project team leads to identify potential areas for simplification, improved consistency, and new patterns; inform their priorities.- Promote engagement with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.- Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules.- Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools. Presenter- Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design thinking.- Clearly articulate design rationale, including flexibilities and limitations.- Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible.Qualities- Keen interest in championing brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility.- Proficiency in the formal elements of design, with a strong focus on typography, balance, and proportion.- Systematic thinker; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application.- Excellent digital file structure and asset management skills.- Passion for pixel-perfection and order. Unparalleled attention to detail.- Ability to articulate ideas verbally and digitally; be clearly understood by creative, product management, and development staff.- Ability to deliver strong design rationale, and supporting files in a tight timeframe.- Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace.Required Skills and Experience- A minimum of 8 years experience in product design (including web, email, and/or design systems), defining or extending design systems, and/or working within an established brand's strict style guidelines.- Team oversight and coordination- including design direction, prioritization of work, as well as the ability to coordinate across teams and disciplines.- Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including component libraries and tooling, prepared with pixel-precision for design team use.- Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences.- Preferred: Experience in marketing-oriented storytelling, with a strong understanding of HTML and CSS.- Preferred: Animation experience.- Preferred: Acuity in iconography.- Preferred: Working knowledge of Principle.- Preferred: BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent).Vacancy expired!