[Hiring] Design Director @Nen Creative

Role Description

We're looking for a Design Director to lead our brand and design practice. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can set a high creative bar, lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team, and build strong relationships with clients.

• Oversee creative quality across brand, web, and launch work from early concepts through final delivery.
• Work closely with our Brand Project Manager to keep projects moving effectively.
• Serve as the senior creative partner in key client conversations.
• Play an important role in new business — helping shape creative approaches, lead pitches and presentations.
• Take meaningful ownership of the practice: improving the work, developing the team, strengthening operations.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in brand, design, or creative roles, ideally within a strong branding or creative agency environment.
• Exceptional design judgment and craft.
• Extremely strong with clients.
• High ownership and reliability.
• Able to move fluidly between direction and execution.
• Driven to raise the bar.

Requirements

• You know what great looks like, can push work beyond the obvious, and are willing to challenge conventions to create something distinctive.
• You're confident presenting to founders and senior stakeholders, can articulate and defend creative decisions, manage feedback, and build trust quickly.
• You do whatever it takes to get important work over the line, stay calm under pressure, and don't need someone chasing you to make things happen.
• You can think at the highest level about the idea, strategy, and creative system, but you're also willing to get into the details and help make the work better when needed.
• You want to build better work, better processes, and a better team — not simply maintain what already exists.

Benefits

• Help shape the next stage of a fast-growing independent creative studio.
• Take meaningful ownership over the quality and direction of our brand practice.
• Work directly with ambitious founders and some of the most exciting companies in technology.
• Have real influence over how we work, what we make, and the kind of studio we become.
• Remote-friendly environment.
• Healthcare coverage.
• Paid time off and company holidays.