FOR NYC
Job Title: Design Director
Directly Reports To: Chief Product Officer
Job Description: Likeable Media is looking for a talented Design Director to lead our design team. The creative department includes is made up of passionate and hardworking creatives who take initiative to execute beautiful client work. The person we hire will fit in with Likeable’s core values of being a driven, transparent, passionate, thought leader.
Roles and Responsibilities: This list is not mutually exclusive but here is a better idea of what is expected of you.
- Oversee design in the creative department and set the artistic vision for the team.
- Work with the account staff as well as clients to understand their brand image and have that translate into the work from our designs.
- Design award winning quality work alongside the team to increase productivity.
- Work with the project manager and Chief Product Officer across all projects.
- Be a mentor and coach to the design team.
Knowledge: In order to be successful in this position, you need to possess certain knowledge.
- Design: Exceptional ability to design award-winning online graphics. Previous award winning work is a plus. Strong concept development and graphic design ability. Experience working with various digital projects.
- Social Media: Knowledge and understanding of social media (beyond just Facebook and Twitter) and how it benefits brands both large and small is crucial for this position.
- Marketing: A clear understanding of and passion for all marketing (traditional, new media, guerilla and ‘word of mouth’)
- Management: You will not only be managing people, but you will also be managing projects and client relationships.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills
Skills In order to be successful in this position, you need to possess certain skills.
- Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML, HTML5 (is a plus), CSS, Flash AS2/AS3 (is a plus), Javascript (is a plus), OmniGraffle (or other UX tools), etc
- Strong concept development and graphic design ability
- Excellent understanding of UX (Social Media channels, website and mobile)
- Solid experience in UI, creating Web graphics, animations, icons, style sheets, color schemes, templates and layouts for use in online advertising, web site, Facebook app and mobile app projects.
- Solid experience in Excellent understanding of composition, color, imagery, typography
Qualities: In order to be successful in this position, you need to possess certain qualities.
- Hungry for awards!!!
- Experience working at an advertising/digital/social media agency
- Raw talent
- Strong leadership
- Creative vision and incredible taste
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to self-manage projects and work within time deadlines
- Experience providing art direction to Flash and Web Developers
- Resourcefulness
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Desire to lead a team and be hands on
- Easy to work with
- Flexible and can work in small, and large teams.
- Hardworking
- Passionate
- Confident
- Professional
We are an award-winning social media leveraging and word of mouth marketing firm. We have managed the social media presence of over 200 companies and have offices in 3 cities.
Our Mission: To leverage social media and word of mouth marketing to create more transparent, responsive likeable companies, organizations and governments.
Our Core Values: We are driven to excel in all we do. We exude passion in every interaction. Transparency guides us. We are thought leaders. We are likeable.
We are a full service social agency. However, our core competency is helping brands create, distribute, cultivate and respond to text, pictures and videos which drive buzz, growth & action: likeable media.
Contact: For inquiries contact jobs@likeable.com Please provide a portfolio with your application.
