Creative Director

Five & Done is on the hunt for a Creative Director to help build and lead a product design team. The ideal candidate is a digital native, obsessed with user centric design, research, analytics, UX, UI, prototyping, systematic and beautiful visual design.

Reporting directly to our Executive Creative Director, this role ensures the product design team is delivering creative solutions rooted in strong research and strategy, while delivering the best possible usability and stunning design.

Day to day responsibilities will range from meeting with our clients to understand their needs and requirements to working with our internal team to define, execute, and refine a creative vision. There will be some actual design involved in this role too, mixing Keynote and conference calls with Figma and Sketch.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of a product’s life cycle including research, concepts, wireframes, prototypes, UI, documentation, and testing. 
• Work directly with our clients to identify their needs and requirements, and then translate those into tasks for the product designers.  
• Prepare, design, and lead client presentations.
• Manage, mentor, and inspire the product design team.
• Review all aspects of the product designer’s work to ensure quality is maintained. 
• Interview product design candidates in order to grow the team. 
• Consult with project and production management teams on budget, resource allocation and scheduling of projects.
• Collaborate with the creative team in our California office to ensure our creative approach not only works from a functional standpoint, but also looks beautiful.

About You

• You have spent part of your career focused on graphic or visual design, and part of it focused on user experience design.
• You have prior experience in a client-facing role.
• You’re comfortable running a workshop, know what a journey map is, and are capable of leading product discussions with key stakeholders.
• You have a strong point of view and know how to professionally communicate it.
• You have a solid understanding of Sketch, Figma, InVision, Photoshop, JIRA, Confluence and Keynote, and whatever UI design and prototyping tools will be coming out next year.
• You’re experienced in taking feedback, guiding clients to appropriate solutions and gathering requirements.
• You like to get your hands dirty and can produce wireframes, user flows, prototypes, designs and of course presentations.
• You have a smashing portfolio that demonstrates your understanding of a UCD approach and your stellar problem solving skills.
• You have at least 5 years of experience working within an agency environment and/or on consumer web applications.
• You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and know how to read a room.
• You have skill, but not an ego.

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