Hybrid Digital Design Strategy – Operations Director

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About the role

  • Digital Design Strategy & Operations Director orchestrating design strategy and operations in a venture capital firm. Ensuring high-quality design outcomes and talent acquisition across diverse sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and streamline digital design operations across diverse portfolio companies, ensuring efficient workflows and resource allocation
  • Identify skill gaps within design teams and develop plans to address them
  • Partner with recruiters, leverage personal networks, and explore unconventional channels to hire top-tier design talent
  • Exhibit exceptional ability to distinguish world-class design talent from others
  • Collaborate with teams to define and execute design strategies that align with company missions and objectives
  • Set goals, assign resources, assure quality, and improve processes
  • Demonstrate a strong track record of guiding design teams to successful, mission-driven outcomes
  • Stay acutely aware of current design trends, strategically incorporating or avoiding them to achieve timeless, impactful results
  • Apply robust design project management skills to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables
  • Maintain a growth-focused mindset to enable designs to scale and propagate the world lightning fast

Requirements

  • Strong track record of identifying and hiring the best talent is required
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing teams is required
  • Proficiency in design tools (e.g., Figma) and project management software is required
  • Strong portfolio showcasing your own design work is a huge plus
  • At least native-like English and good business Japanese language proficiency

Benefits

  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the legacy of brands in the Japanese design industry
  • Access to a high-trust community that encourages risk-taking, experimentation, and innovation
  • Collaboration with talented professionals from various backgrounds and disciplines

Job title

Digital Design Strategy – Operations Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridJapan

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