Associate Director, Product Design

Company description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce.

Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Digitas is looking for a contract Associate Director, Product Design to support a pair of high-profile client accounts!

At Digitas, our Senior Product Designers build digital experiences people love to use. They sit squarely at the intersection of experience design, visual design, and systems thinking with an emphasis on precision, consistency, and craft. They are collaborators and innovators who thrive in multidisciplinary teams, can start from a blank page and help realize the vision for a great experience, and aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty making that vision a reality.

Our experience runs the gamut from site to mobile, eCom to campaign to B2B, marketing to editorial to product, with one foot in beautiful visual expressions and the other in rock-solid user experience. At heart, we are designers who love creating new, meaningful experiences and are well-versed in the practice of modern digital experience creation.

In this role, you will serve as the executional design lead for the creation of digital experiences. In partnership with client teams as well as Digitas UX, Development, and Content teams, you will translate client business goals and brand strategy into beautiful, polished, scalable web and product experiences that are effective, innovative, and on-brand while also working within (and continuing to evolve) previously-established design systems.

This is a blended role that offers the opportunity for strategic direction, hands‑on design, and client engagement as well as meaningful product ownership across both visual and architectural UX.

• You are a leader who will help set the vision for your teams and their projects. You know how to get briefed on a new project, collaborate with a team to tackle the challenge, and manage, organize and defend the work of your team members, while also contributing to the day to day outputs. You are as comfortable sweating the details of a design interaction as you are presenting your teams’ work.
  
  You are passionate about creating beautiful visual design assets and also love creating the information architecture for an experience. You're a strong advocate for the customer. You're formally trained in design and passionate about customer‑centric innovation. You take pride in your work. You obsess over details and insist on iterating until you've gotten it right. You see feedback as a good thing.
  
  You're a storyteller who is at ease presenting and discussing your work with clients and stakeholders. You challenge old ways of thinking and put the customer at the center of everything you do. User‑Centered Design methodologies are second nature to you. You are never content with good enough and are always looking for ways to innovate and drive designs, experiences, and client relationships to the next level.

• You take ownership of UI and visual design assets for projects and work closely with other team members as well as other disciplines to create extraordinary digital experiences. You serve as a design thinking resource across products/platforms and content/campaigns. You collaborate with all other disciplines and understand the dependencies that impact design and development throughout the project life cycle. You are skilled in…