[Hiring] Creative Director @Deer Designer

Role Description

You’re the person who makes “reliable and always available” true in real life. You lead a team of designers, keep quality consistent across multiple brands, and make sure work ships on time without turning the team into pixel zombies. This is a player-coach role: you’ll direct, review, unblock, and occasionally design when it matters most.

What you’ll own (outcomes)

• Quality consistency at scale: every deliverable meets brand standards, feels intentional, and doesn’t trigger “who approved this?” energy.
• On-time delivery: priorities are clear, deadlines are realistic, and the team ships predictably.
• Team performance: designers are productive, improving, and not quietly drowning.
• Client confidence: clients feel like they have a real design leader, not “a random designer who happens to be online.”

Qualifications

• 5+ years in design with 1–3+ years leading creatives (agency, subscription, or in-house).
• Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma and Canva fluency.
• Strong English communication (spoken and written).
• Strong brand judgment, typography, composition, and art direction.
• Confident reviewer: your feedback is specific, actionable, and fast.
• Calm operator energy: you keep quality high under load.
• Experience managing multiple brands/projects at once.

Requirements

• Creative leadership and direction: set and maintain creative standards for the team, translate messy briefs into clear direction, establish reusable systems.
• Quality control: review work before it goes out, coach designers through feedback, define what “great” looks like.
• Delivery management: triage incoming requests, assign work based on skill and context, unblock work fast, communicate risks early.
• Client-facing collaboration: join key client calls, proactively spot gaps, turn client feedback into better systems.
• Team leadership and coaching: lead weekly team syncs, run feedback loops, maintain team morale and momentum.
• Process and continuous improvement: improve briefing quality, identify recurring friction, collaborate on workflows.

Benefits

• Monthly Rate: $1100 USD (negotiable based on experience).
• Paid Time Off: 15 PTO days + 10 unpaid days + 2 sick days (after 6 months).
• Work Anniversary Gifts: performance bonuses, and career growth.
• Flexible Hours: async-friendly team culture.
• Work from anywhere: all you need is Wi-Fi.