Design Director / Brand and Integrated Creative

Luckie & Co.; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Life insurance and disability

401k with matching

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave

Volunteer time

Job summary

Luckie & Co. is seeking a Design Director to shape the future of brand and integrated creativity. You will set the creative vision, lead major campaigns, and champion AI as a creative multiplier across accounts.

Based in Duluth, GA, the role favors in-office collaboration three days per week, with the possibility of staff in Birmingham, AL. You will mentor a team from junior designers to senior art directors and drive award-winning work.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of agency experience with an enviable portfolio of award-winning, beautifully art directed work across brand and integrated campaigns.
• Think in systems — you can build a brand identity, establish a visual world, and lead teams through digital and visual transformations.
• Understand clients’ P&Ls as well as their brand briefs.
• Architect intelligent creative workflows and champion a culture of continuous experimentation.
• Experience mentoring and guiding other creatives; comfortable with hands-on work.
• Able to manage fast-paced environment with multiple clients in various verticals.

Responsibilities

• Set the creative vision and design direction for the agency and accounts, establishing standards for excellence.
• Lead conceptual development on major campaigns and produce ideas that break through and win awards.
• Champion AI as a creative multiplier and model best practices for the department.
• Serve as a senior creative voice in client relationships and deliver beyond expectations.
• Partner with strategy to spot and amplify creative opportunities.
• Contribute to new business pitches and concepts.
• Grow the creative team's skills, ambitions, and careers.

Skills

Agency experience

Brand identity

Systems thinking

Business acumen

Leadership

Mentoring

Multi-client management

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Design Director / Brand and Integrated Creative

Create, nurture, and sell game-changing work that solves clients’ business problems.

At Luckie, we combine creativity, business intelligence and technology to solve business problems and achieve results that luck can’t explain. Our creative team dreams up ads and experiences that real people care about, When we do it just right, it’s super fun and creates amazing results for our clients.

We’re currently looking for a Design Director with the vision to shape the future of our work, the authority to elevate our creative output, and the hunger to do the best work of their career.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of agency experience with an enviable portfolio of award-winning, beautifully art directed work across brand and integrated campaigns.
• You think in systems — you can build a brand identity, establish a visual world, and lead teams through digital and visual transformations.
• You balance visionary thinking with business acumen: you understand clients’ P&Ls as well as their brand briefs.
• You architect intelligent creative workflows and champion a culture of continuous experimentation.
• Experience beyond being an individual contributor, mentoring and guiding work of other creatives, but ok with living in the work day-to-day.
• Ability to handle fast paced environment with multiple clients in various vertical.

CPG Expert

• Deep experience in CPG — you understand the category, the shelf, the shopper, and how to make a brand matter in a crowded market.
• You're not experimenting with AI — you're already using it strategically to accelerate ideation, production, and creative possibility.

Team Builder

• You know how to build, mentor, and inspire a creative department — from junior designers to senior art directors.
• Even in the toughest constraints, you find a way to make the work outstanding — positivity is part of your creative toolkit.

Here’s what you’ll do at Luckie:

• Set the creative vision and design direction for the agency as well as your specific accounts, establishing standards that push every piece of work to its best.
• Lead conceptual development on major campaigns and produce ideas that break through and win awards.
• Champion AI as a creative multiplier: build best practices, run experiments, and model fluency for the entire creative department.
• Serve as a senior creative voice in client relationships, becoming a trusted partner who understands their business and consistently delivers beyond expectations.
• Partner with strategy team members to spot and amplify creative opportunities.
• Be instrumental in new business pitches and concepts.
• Grow your creative team's skills, ambitions, and careers.

At Luckie, we believe our best work happens together. Employees are required and expected to work from the office three days per week. We are ideally seeking to staff this role in our Duluth, GA office, but would consider our Birmingham, AL location. Our expectation is the same no matter where the work is done - employees must be flexible to meet the needs of Luckie and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

Luckie benefits include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k with matching, FSAs, HSAs
• Flexible paid time off, plus major holidays, one floating holiday and volunteer time
• Paid parental leave
• And so much more!

Luckie and Company is an equal opportunity company and complies with applicable federal, state and local employment laws.