Lead Digital Designer

Dentsu Creative Amsterdam; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Dentsu Creative Amsterdam is seeking a Lead Digital Designer to shape websites, apps and digital services with exceptional UI craft, strong motion and prototyping skills.

You'll set direction across projects, guide other designers, and collaborate with strategists, creatives, UX designers, developers and AI specialists to turn ambitious ideas into distinctive experiences.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing exceptional UI craft, strong interaction design and a sharp eye for typography, composition and detail.
• Strong motion and prototyping skills, with examples that show your ideas in action.
• Confidence with Figma and experience building scalable design systems.
• Practical experience using AI to design, prototype and build, with clear judgement about the results.
• Experience exploring or directing 3D, alongside specialist artists and developers.
• Ability to lead across projects, explain your decisions and help other designers grow.
• High standards, curiosity and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Set the visual and interaction direction for websites, apps and digital services.
• Build design systems that carry a brand's character through components, interaction patterns and motion.
• Make ideas move. Use interactive prototypes and working concepts to explore how an experience feels and behaves.
• Bring motion, 3D and AI into the work where they make an experience more intuitive, expressive or engaging. Collaborate with specialists to take ideas further.
• Design across several projects, knowing where to focus your attention and how to keep teams moving.
• Guide other designers through clear feedback, regular reviews and practical support.
• Present work to clients and partner with developers to deliver the ambition, with attention to usability, accessibility and performance.

Skills

UI craft

Motion design

Prototyping

Typography

Interaction design

Figma

Design systems

AI in design

3D design

Leadership across projects

Feedback & reviews

Tools

Figma

Design systems tooling

Job description

At Dentsu Creative Amsterdam we're looking for a Lead Digital Designer to join our team.

We're looking for a Lead Digital Designer with exceptional UI craft, strong motion and prototyping skills, and the ambition to push our digital work further.

You'll shape websites, apps and digital services, bringing brand, interaction and technology together. You'll stay close to the craft, set direction across projects and help other designers do their best work.

Your role

Working alongside strategists, creatives, UX designers, developers and AI specialists, you'll turn ambitious ideas into distinctive digital experiences.

You'll balance your own design work with guiding less experienced designers. From early concepts to final delivery, you'll bring clear thinking, practical direction and high standards. You'll also help shape our experience design practice through new tools, references and ways of working.

What you'll do

• Set the visual and interaction direction for websites, apps and digital services.
• Build design systems that carry a brand's character through components, interaction patterns and motion.
• Make ideas move. Use interactive prototypes and working concepts to explore how an experience feels and behaves.
• Bring motion, 3D and AI into the work where they make an experience more intuitive, expressive or engaging. Collaborate with specialists to take ideas further.
• Design across several projects, knowing where to focus your attention and how to keep teams moving.
• Guide other designers through clear feedback, regular reviews and practical support.
• Present work to clients and partner with developers to deliver the ambition, with attention to usability, accessibility and performance.

What you'll bring

• A portfolio showing exceptional UI craft, strong interaction design and a sharp eye for typography, composition and detail.
• Strong motion and prototyping skills, with examples that show your ideas in action.
• Confidence with Figma and experience building scalable design systems.
• Practical experience using AI to design, prototype and build, with clear judgement about the results.
• Experience exploring or directing 3D, alongside specialist artists and developers.
• The ability to lead across projects, explain your decisions and help other designers grow.
• High standards, curiosity and a collaborative mindset.

Why this role

You'll help define the quality and direction of experience design at Dentsu Creative Amsterdam. There's room to develop the team, influence how we work and explore new possibilities across design and technology.

Our ambition is high. We're looking for someone with the craft and leadership to help us realise it.

Who we are

We are Dentsu Creative Amsterdam. Part of a global agency network, we live and breathe transformative creativity. We create award-winning work across five shops: Campaign, Branding, Social, Experience, and PR. Chances are, you've seen our work in the wild. From a campaign that changed internet laws and unmistakable grocery vans to financial tips on your feed and futuristic platforms for luxury watches. We're on the lookout for fresh perspectives that come from diverse ideas, nationalities, and backgrounds. Here at Houthavens, you'll find unique personalities, from our creatives to account managers, strategists to technologists, designers to content creators, and everyone in between. One roof, one team. All in.

Why you?

If you're not afraid to raise your hand and speak up, this is your place. We have clients you've always wanted to work for and projects you've always wanted to be a part of. Let's create work that others wish they had, together.

Why us?

We're serious about our work, but we're also serious about having fun. Just ask anyone who's been to our BBQs, Thanksgiving dinners, or team uitjes. On a day-to-day basis, you'll find us cracking puzzles, hanging with office doggies, and still figuring out how to froth milk with the espresso machine. And of course, Thursday borreltjes. Take our word for it. Or better yet, experience it for yourself.