Design System Specialist

Tag; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Career training and development

Inclusive environment

Job summary

Tag seeks a Design Director to lead our creative team and shape the visual identity across digital, print, and motion projects.

You will apply advanced market knowledge and brand standards to deliver innovative visual design and messaging, working with global partners and production teams to ensure top-tier quality.

Qualifications

• A degree in Art or Animation, or equivalent experience.
• 8–10 years’ experience managing a team and creating design systems.
• Demonstrated abilities in an agile workflow.
• Proven project management experience.
• Strong collaboration and communication across levels of an organization.
• Conceptual thinking to prioritize design execution under brand standards.
• Attention to detail in deadline-driven environments.
• Advanced visual design capabilities and brand identity understanding.
• Experience with digital design for email, web, and channels; motion/animation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Help create production schedules with producers and allocate team resources.
• Conduct project debriefs to producers and review work for approvals.
• Guide designers through the process and delegate tasks.
• Provide design guidance to global partners and ensure quality across projects.
• Lead the design vision and drive best practices across teams and partners.
• Manage designers and freelancers and work with production groups to uphold standards.
• Lead client discussions through all project stages, from pitches to final delivery.
• Maintain relationships with clients to encourage repeat work.

Skills

Agile workflow

Project management

Collaboration

Communication

Visual design

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

After Effects

Premiere

Design systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Brand understanding

Education

Art or Animation degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

After Effects

Premiere

Job description

At Tag, we love what we do and pride ourselves on an authentic culture built on our core values of integrity, innovation, sustainability, growth, and accountability.

We are a leading creative production and sourcing partner to brands and agencies and we have over 50 years of marketing execution experience, working with the world’s best brands. We are creative directors, graphic designers, CGI artists, writers, photographers, producers, linguists, operations experts, and account managers, coming together to deliver impactful content with craft, scale, and speed.

This role uses its extensive design background to assist in leading the creative team to produce content incorporating innovative design along with targeted messaging; focused on visual design. This role is a hands‑on professional with the ability to apply his/her advanced knowledge of the client’s market, it’s brand visual identities, and overall design best practices to execute on visual design and story through appropriate technology for desired end marketing use (digital, print, etc.). The Design Director is responsible for leading the design oriented creative vision as well as being integral to the wider creative vision for the group.

EXPERIENCE WITH TECH CLIENTS A MUST

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree in Art or Animation. A combination of education and work experience can be substituted. 8-10 years’ experience managing a team and create design systems
• Demonstrated abilities in an agile workflow
• Demonstrated experience in project management
• Excellent ability to collaborate with others and present creative ideas for successful adoption
• Conceptual thinker who can brainstorm to solve problems and identify priorities for design execution against strict quality or brand standards
• Confident and professional communicator at all levels of an organization
• Excellent attention to detail in deadline driven, pressured environment
• Advanced designer, able to define visual characteristics and understand the client’s identity to create innovative visual design elements.
• Understanding of digital design best practices for email, websites, and channel platforms
• Understanding of design within motion and animation, as well as channel best practices
• Aware of new technologies
• Comprehensive understanding of all aspects of design
• Proficient use of Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat (plus an understanding of After Effects and Premiere)
• Proficient use of Figma, Firefly and Adobe

JOB DUTIES

(* denotes an “essential function”)

• *Help create production schedules with producers, resource scheduling of the team
• *Conduct project debriefs to producers
• *Assign and guide designers throughout the process
• *Review and approvals of projects
• *Provide design guidance for our global partners
• Leverages creative experience and advanced knowledge of visual design and development to stimulate innovative designs from ideation to execution and delivery
• Develop modular systems for design efficiency.
• Management of design team as well as freelancers
• Works across design and production groups on a global scale to facilitate highest design standards and best practices
• Contributes to best practices through documentation and knowledge sharing
• Project Management and delivery
• Lead project kick off meetings
• Manage projects from concept to completion in both a creative and technical capacity
• Work with producers on resource scheduling
• Delegate work within team and to remote outsource partners to fulfill project goals
• Drive the design orientated creative vision for the projects
• Inspire team to do great work
• Communicate with the client and Producer, Account Manager to articulate our creative/technical responses to manage expectations.
• Manages the day to day operation of more junior designer roles, focusing on visual design elements, to successfully incorporate design with messaging
• Understand the client and brands aesthetic and apply to the different project briefs
• Assist in building and implementing new approaches to design work
• Lead clients through all stages of project/production, including pitches, briefings, reviews
• Maintain and develop relationships with clients to assist with winning repeat work.

This is the opportunity to work in an environment that best suits your needs, fueled by flexible hours and locations, strong supportive benefits, career training and development and, most importantly, an inclusive environment that eliminates barriers and elevates voices, giving every member of the Tag team an opportunity to be seen and heard.

We’ve made a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and are taking a stance on equality in the workplace. We support sustainability, in our organization and with our network of partners and suppliers.

As an ethical employer, Tag will never ask job applicants to provide private, sensitive information upfront or make offers of employment contingent on financial requests or responsibilities from any candidate.