# Principal, Visual Design

**Company**: DEPT®
**Location**: NY, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,200-$120,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world's most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

The Principal, Visual Design role requires a visionary approach, collaborating with the creative team to not only meet client needs but to establish new benchmarks for conceptual and visual design excellence. A core responsibility is to challenge the team's thinking, pushing beyond conventional problem-solving to deliver transformative, best-in-class solutions.

You will:

- Closely collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of talented people.

- Lead and mentor the creative team, fostering a collaborative, optimistic, and proactive culture.

- Bring a fresh, insightful point of view that inspires both the internal team and the client, putting the team and client first.

- Define and implement successful design strategies, setting high visual and conceptual standards for all company efforts (including websites, branding, UX, and content).

- Generate strategic insights and moodboards to facilitate creative innovation.

- Drive complex digital projects from kick-off to completion, ensuring the team's deliverables exceed client expectations and stay within budget and deadlines.

- Establish project direction, craft guidelines, and assist with production as needed.

- Identify key client decision-makers and leverage excellent interpersonal skills to grow and maintain these relationships, collaborating across all internal departments and external stakeholders to achieve desired results.

- Actively contribute to the design discipline through mentoring, conversation, and proposing ideas to elevate company operations and improve processes.

You bring:

- 5+ years of proven experience in design and interactive work for leading brands, including 2+ years in a leadership role.

- Bachelor's Degree in Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

- Mastery of Figma (including components, variants, and auto layout) and familiarity with essential collaboration tools (e.g., Hubspot, Google Suite, Slack).

- Strong knowledge and experience in visual design, user-centered experience design, interaction design, and brand development. Experience developing and maintaining a robust design system.

- AI-Enhanced Production Ecosystems: Advanced capability in adopting and implementing generative AI tools (such as Midjourney, Runway, Vizcom, and Weavy) into the design pipeline to maximize asset velocity, explore vanguard concepts, and drive structural innovation.

- Design Systems for Paid Media Scale: Demonstrated expertise in bridging robust design systems with performance marketing initiatives. Responsible for architecting and optimizing scalable, modular components in Figma specifically designed for dynamic paid ads and multi-channel marketing matrices (Meta, TikTok, Google, and Pinterest).

- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic vision and creative inspiration to large, diverse teams.

- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to clients and internal stakeholders.

- Highly detail-oriented, proactive, comfortable navigating complex organizations, and focused on strategic problem-solving and process efficiency.

We offer:

- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage

- 401K plan, plus matching

- PTO

- Paid Company Holidays

- Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- Figma
- visual design
- user-centered experience design
- interaction design
- brand development
- AI-Enhanced Production Ecosystems
- Design Systems for Paid Media Scale

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