Creative Director & Design Strategy Partner

Prophet; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Prophet in New York, NY is seeking a Design leadership partner to expand its design capability and drive transformative brand and customer experiences. The role blends creative direction with strategic leadership and senior-stakeholder advisory across Prophet’s offerings.

You will lead a high-performing design team, build client relationships, and contribute to firm-wide strategy and growth while delivering design excellence grounded in business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in brand design, experience design, creative strategy, innovation, campaign, or related disciplines, ideally in a consultancy or agency environment.
• 5+ years leading and selling strategic creative solutions to senior client stakeholders.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams across strategy, design, and digital disciplines.
• Experience building capabilities, methodologies, and frameworks that elevate design organizations.
• Deep expertise in brand identity, experience design, design systems, campaign ideation, and creative strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong client relationships through high-impact, multidisciplinary work delivered through effective collaboration across Prophet's offerings.
• Lead client engagements including brand identity, experience, activation, and campaign work streams.
• Elevate creative quality by grounding recommendations in business strategy and serving as a champion for design excellence.
• Shape business development work by contributing to proposals and pitches through thought leadership and subject matter expertise.
• Support firm-wide contributions beyond Design, aligning creative leadership to Prophet's strategy, culture, and growth agenda.
• Deliver against commercial targets, including sales, utilization, and profitability goals.
• Contribute to Prophet's global studio culture by helping maintain consistent standards across geographies.
• Travel as needed to engage clients, build teams, and represent Prophet.
• Lead and inspire a high-performing team of design experts as part of the Design Leadership Team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.
• Continue building and recruiting world-class design talent for Prophet's growing global creative team.
• Model Prophet's performance-driven, collaborative, entrepreneurial culture while fostering belonging and shared success.
• Integrate with Prophet's broader consulting teams to ensure design work is embedded in and elevates strategic impact.

Skills

Brand identity

Experience design

Design systems

Campaign ideation

Creative strategy

AI deployment

Job description

Prophet in New York, NY is seeking a Design leadership partner to expand its design capability and drive transformative brand and customer experiences. The role blends creative direction with strategic leadership and senior-stakeholder advisory across Prophet’s offerings.

You will lead a high-performing design team, build client relationships, and contribute to firm-wide strategy and growth while delivering design excellence grounded in business outcomes.