Senior Design Director

Verizon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Verizon in New York is seeking a dynamic Design Director to lead the tactical execution and evolution of the Verizon visual identity. This role demands mastery of brand systems, typography, and graphic design across every consumer touchpoint.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup with three days in the office, and you’ll champion GenAI to accelerate creative development. The listed annual salary range for New York is $115,500 to $201,000, reflecting location and experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required.

Responsibilities

• Execute & Scale the Visual Identity: Drive day-to-day tactical execution and expression of the Verizon visual identity across touchpoints.
• Build Design Systems & Toolkits: Create brand design systems, asset libraries, and scalable toolkits.
• Deploy Campaign Graphic Identities: Collaborate with campaign teams to scale graphic identities for ATL campaigns.
• Collaborate & Guide: Mentor a dedicated Graphic Designer and protect the integrity of their craft.
• Push Brand Boundaries: Evolve the brand identity with a modern, sophisticated design lens.
• Articulate Your Vision: Present design executions to internal leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Brand design systems

Typography

Graphic design

Layout

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

When you join Verizon. You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What You’ll Be Doing…

We are looking for a dynamic, systems-driven Design Director to drive the tactical execution and implementation of the overall visual identity for the Verizon brand. This isn't a role for a passive overseer; it’s for a master practitioner and systems builder who thrives in the day-to-day crafting of robust design languages and possesses the graphic design genius to execute them flawlessly.

AI as Your Creative Co-Pilot:

We don't just adopt technology; we pioneer it. At Verizon, we believe AI shouldn’t replace human genius—it should liberate it. In this role, you won't just tolerate GenAI; you will champion it to supercharge our creative development pipeline. We leverage advanced AI tools to accelerate brainstorming, execute rapid visual prototyping, and smash through routine generation bottlenecks. We expect you to treat AI as an expansive, collaborative canvas—using it to test the boundaries of "what if" at lightning speed, freeing up your team to focus on what matters most: deeply human, authentic, and jaw-dropping storytelling.

Responsibilities Include

• Execute & Scale the Visual Identity: Drive the day-to-day tactical execution and expression of the overall Verizon visual identity, ensuring world-class design consistency and technical excellence across every consumer touchpoint.
• Build Design Systems & Toolkits: Get hands-on in the creation and rollout of comprehensive brand design systems, asset libraries, and scalable toolkits that enable internal and external teams to build unified assets efficiently.
• Deploy Campaign Graphic Identities: Collaborate closely with campaign creative teams to build out and scale bespoke graphic identities for high-profile brand and integrated Above-The-Line (ATL) campaigns, seamlessly operationalizing big conceptual ideas.
• Collaborate & Guide: Partner with the Sr. Design Director to mentor, guide, and elevate one dedicated Graphic Designer, taking an active role in their technical development and protecting the integrity of their craft.
• Push Brand Boundaries: Honor the foundational principles of the Verizon brand while constantly finding fresh, daring ways to evolve its visual identity through a modern, sophisticated design lens.
• Articulate Your Vision: Confidently present, defend, and articulate design executions, visual mechanics, and systematic choices to internal creative leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

Even Better If You Have

• Seven or more years of experience within top-tier design studios, advertising agencies, or world-class in-house creative teams, with a standout portfolio showcasing tactical execution of comprehensive brand design systems and graphic design.
• Proven experience executing, maintaining, and scaling brand systems for a major Fortune 100 brand or large-scale enterprise. You know how to build and work within flexible guidelines that allow a massive organization to move with agility.
• A deep, uncompromising passion for typography, layout, photography, color theory, and graphic design in general. You possess an elite technical eye for detail and understand the logic required to build scalable design mechanics.
• Extensive hands-on experience building out detailed brand books, design toolkits, mechanicals, and style guides that translate seamlessly across print, digital, motion, and experiential platforms.
• You are zero-ego, highly collaborative, deeply analytical about design systems, and invested in pushing the technical execution of the work forward.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits And Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $115,500.00 - $201,000.00.