Design Director
- Full-time
Company Description
NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing platform. We’re powering marketing technology for the future – helping brands transform the way they connect with people, build brand love, and win more customers. Our cutting-edge technology enables top brands such as Pepsi, Pfizer, Dell, Diageo, and Spotify to create amazing content experiences with simplicity, speed, and global scale.
Every day, across three offices, more than 200 brilliant people come to work at NewsCred, and commit their talents, passions, time, and energy to shape the future of an industry. We love working with incredibly talented people. We love helping our clients win. We love inventing new products. We love being trailblazers in a new category. And we are proud of the fact that each year we pay millions of dollars to help inspire and employ the next generation of great journalists, artists, and creators.
We're not making small changes; we're building technology to completely rethink how people create, consume, and share their stories with the world.
Job Description
The Work
NewsCred is looking for a Design Director to lead all aspects of design from the UX & aesthetics of our products and brand. The ideal Design Director collaborates frequently with colleagues from Research & Development and Marketing as well as directly with customers.
The Team
The Design teams at NewsCred consist of some of the most skilled, considerate, and fun-loving people you’ll ever meet. We're highly selective; we seek people who can contribute and share in the success and happiness of our team and the company. We organize ourselves into small, autonomous teams that are as self-sufficient and independent as possible. This allows us to maintain our scrappy, entrepreneurial culture as we grow.
About You
You’re a senior design professional who has experience directing both team projects and managing external resources, you are ready to lead and mentor a team of your own while still rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty when needed.
You have a passion for design in all aspects of life and never met a usable interface you didn’t love. You relish the idea of multi-tasking and collaborating closely with team members and stakeholders to develop original and innovative design concepts, while watching over the overall direction of NewsCred’s distinct user experience. You have a unique, impeccable design aesthetic and consider it your duty to share your expertise with the team.
You can work at “startup speed” and work autonomously, while knowing when and how to escalate.
What You’ll Do
Manage and mentor global design team of Product and Marketing designers
Lead teams in developing strategies and insights that lead to proprietary user centered experience designs; focus on the big picture
Principally own aesthetic direction of our product and brand
Mentor designers regularly and grow/manage talent
Build and maintain a design team structure and process, culturally and collaboratively
Qualifications
Qualification Requirements
5-7 years experience in creative, product focused design
3+ years experience leading and managing designers
Hands on expertise in developing UX and visual design solutions for web & mobile applications, marketing websites and print materials (including HTML/SASS/JS)
Secondary UX skills in Interaction Design, Front-End Development, or Copywriting are desired
Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent experience
Understand user experience and information architecture principles and process (utilizing sitemaps, page flows, wireframes and prototypes to guide design concepts)
Experience working within an agile environment
Applicants must provide a portfolio with examples of application design.