Design Director — Remote Creative Leader

Interpublic; New York (NY); Remote; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

dotdotdash, part of Omnicom, is seeking a Design Director to lead design excellence and operational effectiveness in a remote/US-based role. You will guide a team across campaigns, digital and experiential work while shaping design systems and client outcomes.

You’ll drive senior design strategy, build client relationships at executive level and mentor leaders, ensuring profitable delivery and innovative, measurable outcomes across projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of design experience with a portfolio across campaigns, digital and experiential work.
• Expertise in brand identity systems, art direction, interface design and motion design.
• Proficient with AI tools to enhance ideation and production.

Responsibilities

• Defines and upholds quality standards across the discipline.
• Leads new design approaches, systems and frameworks for consistency and innovation.
• Oversees multiple projects or accounts and provides guidance to elevate output.
• Ensures work aligns with strategic and business objectives.
• Manages and develops a team of Leads, Seniors, and Intermediates with coaching.
• Drives learning and capability development and fosters accountability and inclusion.
• Ensures healthy team utilization and workload balance while nurturing engagement.
• Builds succession and growth plans for emerging leaders.
• Oversees creative and strategic quality of client partnerships and measurable impact.
• Builds senior client relationships and acts as trusted advisor to executives.
• Represents design and innovation in high-level conversations and pitches.
• Ensures satisfaction, retention and growth across key accounts.
• Owns team utilization, profitability, and contribution to the agency’s P&L.
• Leads efficiency and quality improvements across processes.
• Collaborates to evolve productized offerings or accelerators.
• Shapes culture and reputation of the discipline within the agency.

Skills

Art direction

Interface design

Motion design

Brand identity

Design systems

AI design tools

Tools

Nano Banana

MidJourney

VEO/Flow

Runway

Kling 3.0

Pika

Claude

Job description

dotdotdash, part of Omnicom, is seeking a Design Director to lead design excellence and operational effectiveness in a remote/US-based role. You will guide a team across campaigns, digital and experiential work while shaping design systems and client outcomes.

You’ll drive senior design strategy, build client relationships at executive level and mentor leaders, ensuring profitable delivery and innovative, measurable outcomes across projects.