Hybrid Digital Art Director – Lead Web Designer

at Interactive Strategies

• Job title: Digital Art Director – Lead Web Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $90,000 - $125,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Washington, United States

About the role

• Digital Art Director/Lead Web Designer at an interactive agency tackling global challenges. Crafting experiences that engage audiences and inspire action through strategic design and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• At Interactive Strategies, we don’t just build brands, websites, and marketing campaigns—we help tell the stories that matter.
• Our work supports organizations tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges, from climate action to public health.
• … craft experiences that create emotional connections and inspire action.
• You’ll be hands-on in shaping how these causes engage their audiences.
• Everything we do is rooted in deep strategic thinking informed by discovery and research, and you’ll play a key part in gathering insights and translating them into meaningful creative solutions.
• You’ll help clients refresh or reimagine their brands and deliver highly conceptual, strategically grounded designs and UX deliverables.
• You’ll also be a leader on a seasoned team, mentoring, inspiring, and collaborating with others as you contribute to some of our most high-profile and challenging engagements.
• Your talent, experience, and work ethic will help elevate the work we do every day.

Requirements

• You have been in UX and web design for 10+ years and can hit the ground running
• You maintain your own website portfolio with a large collection of inspiring work samples
• You have the ability to design in a variety of styles, and execute unique-yet-functional solutions to websites’ most common problems
• You are adept at developing logos and visual brand systems
• You are comfortable building nuanced creative narratives and confidently pitching work to executive teams.
• You are collaborative and have demonstrated experience working with writers and strategists to develop holistic creative solutions
• You have experience managing and mentoring more junior designers
• You are multi-dimensional. In addition to your design skills, we’d love for you to be great at something else... illustration, typography, motion design, front-end coding. Show us your stuff!

Benefits

• Company-sponsored health, vision and dental insurance
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Profit sharing
• 4 weeks of vacation/sick time from day one; 5+ weeks at year 3
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• 11 paid holidays
• 401k with company match
• New business referral bonus
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work schedule
• Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits