Hybrid Design Director

Posted 21 hours ago

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About the role

  • Design Director leading the design team at Saylor Agency, setting creative standards and managing high-impact projects while mentoring designers.

Responsibilities

  • Set, maintain, and evolve the visual design standard across all Saylor client work, including brand, social, paid media, experiential, and OOH.
  • Ensure all design work is conceptually strong, on-brand, and aligned with creative direction and Saylor’s creative standards.
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback across multiple projects, teams, and accounts.
  • Act as a hands-on designer on key projects when needed, particularly high-visibility or strategically important work.
  • Champion strong visual systems, craft, and attention to detail across all deliverables.
  • Serve as the primary creative and design leader for the design team - representing the team in leadership conversations/meetings.
  • Mentor and coach designers at all levels, helping them grow both creatively and professionally.
  • Establish clear expectations, feedback loops, and growth paths for designers.
  • Partner with People Operations and leadership on performance reviews, promotions, hiring needs, and team development.
  • Foster a design culture rooted in craft, curiosity, inclusivity, and collaboration.
  • Partner closely with the Design Resource Manager to align creative needs with staffing capacity and skill sets.
  • Collaborate with Creative, Production, and Accounts to help define scopes, timelines, and realistic design deliverables.
  • Identify workflow challenges or inefficiencies and help evolve design processes to support scale and quality.
  • Uphold consistency, quality, and efficiency across multiple teams and accounts.
  • Collaborate with Creative, Strategy, Editorial, Production, and Account leadership to bring ideas to life visually.
  • Translate strategy and creative concepts into compelling visual systems and executions.
  • Establish design standards that support broader brand storytelling, campaign goals, and business objectives.
  • Act as a design voice in senior-level creative discussions and decision-making.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional design experience
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across brand, digital, and campaign work
  • Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing multidisciplinary design teams
  • Comfortable balancing hands-on design work with high-level creative oversight and direction
  • Experience working in fast-paced, agency environments with multiple clients and workstreams
  • Strong communicator with the ability to deliver clear, constructive, and motivating creative feedback
  • Deep understanding of brand systems, visual storytelling, and modern design tools and workflows

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • 401k
  • generous vacation
  • great opportunities for growth within the company

Job title

Design Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$140,000 - $190,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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