Design Director
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Design Director leading Valerie’s multi-brand visual identity and design systems. Guiding e-commerce, digital, campaign, social, still, and motion creative across APAC.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design excellence across Valerie's Centre of Excellence
- Own the visual identity and design systems for every brand in Valerie's portfolio
- Ensure each brand has a distinctive, high-quality look and an effective design system
- Lead, develop, and mentor Valerie's design team across brand, still, motion, digital, and e-commerce design
- Connect brand strategy, GTM direction, Growth Masters, and Creative Experiments into visual worlds and design systems
- Build new brands from scratch
- Produce high-volume assets across e-commerce, paid, social, and CRM
- Use performance data to sharpen design decisions
- Raise the quality standard of work before it reaches founders
- Build playbooks and repeatable systems for multiple brands and teams
- Conduct and participate in interviews, role-specific assessments, stakeholder interviews, and final leadership conversations as part of the hiring process
Requirements:
- 8–10+ years of experience in Design, Art Direction, or Design Direction within advertising, branding, digital, or integrated agencies and/or high-growth consumer brands
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing multidisciplinary design teams
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating a clear aesthetic point of view across brand identity, digital, e-commerce, campaigns, and social
- Proven experience building brands and visual worlds from the ground up
- Experience translating brand worlds into high-quality, high-volume asset production
- Strong understanding of e-commerce, DTC, and digital marketing environments
- Strong understanding of still and motion design, with ability to direct multidisciplinary creative talent
- Advanced capability across Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Highly proficient in Figma and comfortable using Canva within scalable brand systems
- Experience working across multiple brands simultaneously
- Ability to accommodate significant working-hour overlap with the team based in India
- Experience designing for global audiences and understanding visual language across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
- Bonus: experience with SMEs, start-ups, or high-growth consumer businesses
- Bonus: strong presentation and deck design experience
- Bonus: experience extending brand worlds into packaging, retail, POS, or physical experiences
- Bonus: familiarity with AI for design development, adaptation, and production
- Bonus: experience building reusable design systems, prompts, or templates for AI-driven workflows
Benefits:
- Meaningful work with visible impact
- High ownership from day one
- Collaboration with experienced founders, operators, and specialists
- A team that values curiosity, initiative, and continuous improvement
- Competitive compensation
- Tools needed to do your best work
- Opportunities to grow as Valerie grows
- Inclusive workplace where people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can thrive
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