Director of Graphic Design

CardsHQ, LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Employee discount

Flexible schedule

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Vision insurance

Job summary

CardsHQ, LLC in Atlanta, GA is seeking a hands-on Director of Graphic Design to lead the graphics team, elevate creative standards, and ensure brand-consistent work is delivered with accuracy and speed.

You will merge expert design execution with organized project management, quality control, and cross-functional collaboration to produce high-impact visuals across multiple brands.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional graphic design experience with a portfolio showing excellent design judgment and execution.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, and other relevant design tools.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of designers.
• Experience developing and implementing brand guidelines across multiple brands or business units.
• Strong ability to provide constructive creative feedback and develop other designers.
• Highly organized approach to managing many simultaneous projects.
• Experience using project-management tools such as monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, or similar platforms.
• Extremely deadline-oriented mindset with strong ownership and urgency.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including the ability to identify small mistakes and correct them.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Ability to balance creative excellence with speed, efficiency, and business needs.
• A high creative bar and a preference for improving work beyond “good enough.”
• Enjoyment of leading people while also staying hands-on with the craft.
• Interest in organization, with projects tracked by owner, deadline, priority, and next steps.
• Strong personal commitment to preventing late deliveries through planning and early communication.
• Willingness to hold people accountable for quality and execution while remaining supportive.
• Experience improving systems when a workflow is not working, rather than working around it.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of graphic and motion designers.
• Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback to support strong design outcomes.
• Set and maintain a high standard for design quality across the department.
• Assign projects based on priorities, deadlines, workload, and individual strengths.
• Create accountability around ownership, communication, and completion of projects.
• Run regular team meetings and 1:1s to keep both projects and individual development on track.
• Operate as an expert-level graphic designer, producing high-quality work across a wide range of projects.
• Step into important or challenging projects when needed, and review work before delivery to confirm it meets creative standards.
• Deliver thoughtful feedback that improves both the immediate project and the designer’s overall process.
• Establish consistent creative standards across company brands and platforms.
• Develop, document, and implement comprehensive brand guidelines across all company brands.
• Ensure each brand maintains a clear, consistent visual identity while fitting within the broader company ecosystem.
• Set standards for typography, color, logo usage, layout, imagery, templates, and other core visual elements.
• Ensure designers and cross-functional teams understand and consistently apply brand standards.
• Continuously evolve brand guidelines as the company, products, and creative needs grow.
• Identify inconsistencies across existing creative and develop solutions to improve cohesion and brand recognition.
• Oversee department workflow from request through final delivery.
• Manage projects and assignments using task management platforms such as monday.com.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, including owner, priority, status, and deadline.
• Identify potential bottlenecks or missed deadlines early and communicate proactively when priorities, resources, or timelines change.
• Build systems and processes that support high-volume production efficiently.
• Treat deadlines as commitments and reinforce a team culture where missed deadlines are the exception.
• Serve as a final quality-control checkpoint for important creative work, catching spelling errors, alignment issues, incorrect assets, formatting problems, and other small mistakes before delivery.
• Ensure feedback is fully addressed before projects are marked complete.
• Maintain organized project files, assets, templates, and shared resources.
• Work with multiple departments to understand project goals, priorities, timelines, and business needs, and translate objectives into effective visual creative.
• Ask the right questions upfront so designers understand the purpose and expectations of each project.
• Partner with department leaders to prioritize work and keep the Graphics Team focused on highest-impact projects.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, available resources, and business priorities.
• A high creative bar and a preference for improving work beyond “good enough.”
• Enjoyment of leading people while also staying hands-on with the craft.
• Interest in organization, with projects tracked by owner, deadline, priority, and next steps.
• Strong personal commitment to preventing late deliveries through planning and early communication.
• Willingness to hold people accountable for quality and execution while remaining supportive.
• Experience improving systems when a workflow is not working, rather than working around it.

Skills

Team leadership

Creative feedback

Project management

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

monday.com

Asana

ClickUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

CardsHQ, LLC is seeking a hands-on Director of Graphic Design to lead the graphics team, strengthen creative standards, and ensure brand-consistent work is delivered with accuracy and speed. This role combines expert design execution with organized project management and quality control.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of graphic and motion designers.
• Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback to support strong design outcomes.
• Set and maintain a high standard for design quality across the department.
• Assign projects based on priorities, deadlines, workload, and individual strengths.
• Create accountability around ownership, communication, and completion of projects.
• Run regular team meetings and 1:1s to keep both projects and individual development on track.
• Operate as an expert-level graphic designer, producing high-quality work across a wide range of projects.
• Step into important or challenging projects when needed, and review work before delivery to confirm it meets creative standards.
• Deliver thoughtful feedback that improves both the immediate project and the designer’s overall process.
• Establish consistent creative standards across company brands and platforms.
• Develop, document, and implement comprehensive brand guidelines across all company brands.
• Ensure each brand maintains a clear, consistent visual identity while fitting within the broader company ecosystem.
• Set standards for typography, color, logo usage, layout, imagery, templates, and other core visual elements.
• Ensure designers and cross-functional teams understand and consistently apply brand standards.
• Continuously evolve brand guidelines as the company, products, and creative needs grow.
• Identify inconsistencies across existing creative and develop solutions to improve cohesion and brand recognition.
• Oversee department workflow from request through final delivery.
• Manage projects and assignments using task management platforms such as monday.com.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, including owner, priority, status, and deadline.
• Identify potential bottlenecks or missed deadlines early and communicate proactively when priorities, resources, or timelines change.
• Build systems and processes that support high-volume production efficiently.
• Treat deadlines as commitments and reinforce a team culture where missed deadlines are the exception.
• Serve as a final quality-control checkpoint for important creative work, catching spelling errors, alignment issues, incorrect assets, formatting problems, and other small mistakes before delivery.
• Ensure feedback is fully addressed before projects are marked complete.
• Maintain organized project files, assets, templates, and shared resources.
• Work with multiple departments to understand project goals, priorities, timelines, and business needs, and translate objectives into effective visual creative.
• Ask the right questions upfront so designers understand the purpose and expectations of each project.
• Partner with department leaders to prioritize work and keep the Graphics Team focused on highest-impact projects.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, available resources, and business priorities.

Requirements

• Extensive professional graphic design experience, with a portfolio showing excellent design judgment and execution.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, and other relevant design tools.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of designers.
• Experience developing and implementing brand guidelines across multiple brands or business units.
• Strong ability to provide constructive creative feedback and develop other designers.
• Highly organized approach to managing many simultaneous projects.
• Experience using project-management tools such as monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, or similar platforms.
• Extremely deadline-oriented mindset with strong ownership and urgency.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including the ability to identify small mistakes and correct them.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Ability to balance creative excellence with speed, efficiency, and business needs.
• A high creative bar and a preference for improving work beyond “good enough.”
• Enjoyment of leading people while also staying hands-on with the craft.
• Interest in organization, with projects tracked by owner, deadline, priority, and next steps.
• Strong personal commitment to preventing late deliveries through planning and early communication.
• Willingness to hold people accountable for quality and execution while remaining supportive.
• Experience improving systems when a workflow is not working, rather than working around it.

Technologies

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• monday.com
• Asana
• ClickUp

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location and Pay

• Location: Atlanta, GA (onsite)
• Work mode: In person
• Pay: From $1.00 per year

What Success Looks Like

A successful Director of Graphic Design will build a department known internally for great work, reliable execution, and attention to detail. The Graphics Team should be trusted to understand objectives, produce excellent creative, and deliver accurately and on time.