Associate Director, Experience Design

Digitas North America; Birmingham (MI); On-site; USD 106,780 - 146,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental

Vision

Disability

401K

Parental and family care leave

Family forming assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible time off

Job summary

Digitas seeks an experienced Experience Design Leader to guide multi-disciplinary teams in creating impactful digital experiences. You will mentor designers, drive design systems, and ensure alignment with business goals while collaborating with stakeholders across product, engineering and marketing.

We value a strong portfolio, deep UX fundamentals, and leadership experience. This role emphasizes collaborative, data-informed design in a fast-paced agency environment.

Qualifications

• A four-year degree is required with formal design education.
• 7–9+ years experience in design or related roles.
• Research experience is a plus and strong portfolio is essential.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and social platforms is helpful.
• Creative agency experience and CRM familiarity are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of designers and content strategists to on-time, quality deliverables.
• Own portfolio quality and collaborate across disciplines to solve complex problems.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing to realize vision.
• Mentor junior talent and manage day-to-day project work.
• Advocate for user-centered design and business impact.

Skills

Portfolio of work

UX fundamentals

Leadership/mentoring

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

Four-year degree

Formal design education

HCI / Human Factors / Graphic Design

Tools

Figma

Adobe CC

CRM platforms

Front-end basics

Job description

Company Description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign's Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Overview

Our Experience Design team crafts digital experiences people love to use. We are collaborators and innovators who thrive in multidisciplinary teams. We can start from a blank page and help realize the vision for a great experience, and aren't afraid to get our hands dirty making that vision a reality.

Our experience runs the gamut from site to mobile, eCom to campaign, marketing to editorial to product, with one foot in beautiful visual expressions and the other in rock-solid user experience. At heart we are designers who love creating new, meaningful experiences and are well versed in the practice of modern digital experience creation.

We're looking for a leader who will help set the vision for their teams and their projects. You'll be as comfortable sweating the details of a design interaction as you are presenting your teams' work. You'll be a mentor and a manager, developing talent to be their best. And you're passionate about growing your own talent, as well.

Responsibilities

Things we want to see in you:

• A portfolio of beautiful, usable experiences designed for all kinds of devices and contexts, showcasing impactful experiences for products and platforms, campaigns and content


• Hybrid design experience: strong UX fundamentals paired up with refined UI and visual design skills


• Well versed in the fundamentals of visual design: color, typography, illustration, motion, etc.


• (Not so) basic prototyping capabilities


• Exceptional ability to create, maintain, evolve and use a design system


• Strong experience in discovery-based activities, user research, and agile processes


• Demonstrated ability to think holistically about an experience to ensure user and business needs are met


• Competency to create site maps, wireframes, user flows, journey maps and other experience models


• Complete comfort sketching and riffing with a team to arrive at exceptional design solutions


• Experience partnering with other capabilities to strategize, design and build the work, including annotating complex interactions


• High level of proficiency in Figma and Adobe CC


• Experience with generative AI tools (e.g., Figma AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Midjourney, Runway) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation


• Amazingly awesome written and presentation skills that showcase passion, informed opinions and design rationale


• Strong experience leading project teams of designers and content strategists to produce on time and quality deliverables - you must be able to get briefed on a new project, collaborate with a team to tackle the challenge, and manage, organize and defend the work of your team members, while also contributing to the day to day outputs


• At least a couple years of experience managing and mentoring direct reports and junior talent in their career growth

Qualifications

• A four-year degree


• A formal design education, and 7-9+ years of experience being sort of amazing


• Additional study in HCI, Human Factors or Graphic Design


• Enough research experience to be dangerous


• A robust portfolio of work across devices and platforms


• Basic understanding of front-end development technologiesA familiarity with common social platforms


• Creative agency experience desired


• Prior experience with CRM as a channel

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.

• Medical coverage


• Dental


• Vision


• Disability


• 401K


• Parental and family care leave


• Family forming assistance


• Tuition reimbursement


• Flexible time off

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $146,100.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/1/2027.