# Associate Design Director - Dutch speaking

**Company**: DEPT
**Location**: Amsterdam
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dept/jobs/8256302?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking an Associate Design Director to join our Experience & Engineering team in the Netherlands. As an Associate Design Director, you will operate at a studio-wide level, shaping the craft vision, elevating design excellence, and steering the strategic direction of our visual design practice.

Responsibilities:

- Own craft direction across complex projects and accounts, ensuring work is aligned, elevated and unmistakably DEPT.

- Raise the bar by defining standards, sharpening processes, and enabling teams to deliver consistently exceptional work.

- Guide clients and internal teams with clear, high-level creative and product direction that goes beyond the brief.

- Drive innovation through experimentation and curiosity, creating work that sets benchmarks and wins awards.

- Shape the future of the design practice by evolving craft vision, building team capabilities, and fostering a culture of mentorship and continuous learning.

- Support pitches and growth opportunities with strong creative POVs that connect craft to business impact.

- Represent DEPT externally through talks, posts and publications that amplify our creative reputation.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in visual/UI/UX design, including 3+ years at senior or leadership level.

- Serious craft expertise: a portfolio demonstrating strategic impact, systems thinking, and high-quality execution across complex digital ecosystems.

- A strategic thinker who influences product, design, and business decisions with clear vision and rationale.

- A recognised design voice: inspires teams, elevates craft standards, and contributes to the wider design community.

- Mentorship mindset: actively builds others up through coaching, structured feedback, and knowledge sharing.

- Continuously curious: eager to master emerging tools, AI workflows, motion, and design trends.

- Deep understanding of visual principles, accessibility, and modern interaction patterns.

- Mastery of Figma and design systems; motion skills (Jitter, AE, etc.) are a plus.

- Confident communicator able to articulate design direction with clarity and conviction.

- Working proficiency in English.

Benefits:

- A flexible, hybrid working policy (2-3 days from the office, depending on location) and the opportunity to work from abroad for 13 weeks a year.

- 24 vacation days per year and the possibility to buy an unlimited number of extra vacation days.

- DEPT/YOU Learning Menu and DEPT/YOU Special Programs.

- Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform, gym and wellness discounts, and healthy lunches at the office.

- Get a discount on your lease bike and ride in style. You can also enjoy hassle-free commutes with an NS Business Card.

## Skills

### Required
- visual design
- UI design
- UX design
- Figma
- design systems
- motion design
- Dutch

### Nice to have
- Jitter
- AE

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