Design Manager à United States

Design Teams’ Purpose: To create unforgettable work that drives seismic commercial results.
Design Director’s Purpose: To lead projects and teams with commercial, pro-active thinking.

As a Design Director at Taxi Studio, you act as the key liaison between the Creative Directors, Client, Project and Design Teams, serving as both a bridge and buffer. You’ll take a leading role in key projects and specific phases, from briefing through to production. Balancing your time between delivering on-the-tools design excellence and providing clear and decisive direction for the Design Team. You’ll ensure Creative Directors’ input, guidance, and sign-off are secured promptly and appropriately at critical stages of the project lifecycle. As a senior design leader, you’ll champion Create unforgettable, ensuring all work under your team’s care achieves this standard, while always being mindful of our Code of Conduct.

Master Craftsperson
From CC to AI, your expertise in design tools makes you the go-to advisor on craft. And while your vision guides projects, you’re always ready to get hands-on with the creative process. You’ll swiftly review design work against our judging criteria, ensuring quality and consistency while spotting improvements and ways to further improve the output. Staying updated and abreast on emerging tech, you’ll uphold Taxi Studio’s Five Laws of AI, keeping human creativity at the forefront.

Design Excellence
Providing compelling creative visions via incisive insights and decisive direction, you’ll inspire and motivate your team to excel in their craft. By staying aware of current trends, you’ll help them to land exceptional ideas that are timely, timeless, and aligned to the strategy. Collaborating closely with the Strategy and Client Team, you’ll use your shrewd tactical mind to interrogate briefs and devise smart, effective design strategies that dovetail perfectly with their ambitions, objectives, and positioning.

Project Partner
Hand in glove with your project team, you’ll take a bird’s eye view of the design projects in your care from the initial briefing to timely completion. You’ll manage in-house and external resource to ensure projects are on-point, on-time, on-budget, and create client delight. At the end of the project, we must make every effort to share and/or celebrate our work and while not every project you undertake will require a case study, you’ll be responsible for creating them for those that do.

Persuasive Presenter
With a potent blend of experience, confidence, and charisma, you’ll captivate clients and key stakeholders with unforgettable work. You’ll support the writing and crafting of creative presentations, simplifying them to the maximum by focusing on the most critical aspects to achieve engagement and clarity. This includes providing a compelling narrative to make them convincing and easy to buy into, both internally and externally. Alongside the Project Team, you’ll form real relationships with our clients. You’ll seek to be their trusted creative partner, building trust and being respectfully provocative to ensure that we are always in ‘working on behalf of clients’ mode so that they get the very best, unforgettable work.

Team Mentor
As a senior design leader, your mentorship of the Design Team is key. People will look to you for on-the-job guidance to hone their critical thinking and practical skills. You’ll delegate tasks thoughtfully and appropriately, not just to unburden your busy schedule but to nurture growth and development.

Our Code of Conduct

Taxi Studio’s three founders founded three values; they’ve since become the bedrock of our culture.
So, on joining us, you’ll be asked to embrace (and sign) our Code of Conduct:

Live Fearless
We’ll encourage you to embrace the extraordinary, think bigger, seek to improve, step into the unknown, back yourself, and be true to yourself.

Form Real Relationships

We’ll expect you to do the right thing, treat others with respect, champion your colleagues, seek to assist not obstruct, give constructive feedback, and be kind to yourself.

Play Fair

We’ll need you to always seek first to understand, collaborate without ego, bring the joy, say
‘no’ when you need to, take responsibility for your actions, and be aware of your impact.

Benefits
You’ll be remunerated and rewarded based on your contribution to the business, and you’ll benefit from an array of benefits, too:

Career Caretaking
We initiate regular development catchups with you to check on how things are going, celebrate your successes and help you work out what things you might need further support on, and together we’ll establish some goals that we’ll review at your next catch-up. You’ll have access to a mentor (if you want one) and our dedicated in-house coach. Plus, we provide plenty of training opportunities across the year, and you’ll get an annual personal budget to spend on your wellbeing. And on that note, we’ll encourage you to take a ‘duvet day’ (or two) if/when you need it, to protect your mental wellbeing.

Other Stuff
We pride ourselves on providing industry-leading benefits, and some of them include: A Health Cashback Plan/Private Healthcare, Enhanced Pension Contributions, Enhanced Maternity/Paternity, Life Assurance Plan, Hybrid Working and Flexible Working Hours, A Paid Volunteering Day (so you can do some good, on us). And more. And while it’s not a benefit, we operate a fair salary policy, which is scrutinised–and reviewed every year–in line with industry salary benchmarks.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
No matter who you are, where you’re from or what experience you may or may not have, you are very welcome to interview for a position at Taxi Studio. We uphold diversity of thought and support diversity in people. We seek divergent thinkers. And people that are smart and nice. It’s that simple.

Being B Corp
We’re B Corp Certified. We believe that what we do is never more important than how we do it. Being an independent B Corp is beneficial. For starters–unlike bureaucratic, bloated network agencies–we only answer to our people, the planet, and the brief.