Director, Design Job Description
Director, design
provides design assurance strategy, leadership and oversight globally to all Design Development Centers and company Product Development Teams to assure customer needs and regulatory requirements are met.
Director, Design Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Reports to the VP of Design and will directly manage a design team
Work with the Design leads to achieve the creative vision for sweaters, knit scarves, hats and gloves
Responsible for upholding design integrity, high quality execution, and timeliness throughout the entire development process from concept through engineering and commercialization
Knowledge of garment construction methods, fit and execution
Understanding of material and garment construction required
Create visual design systems for Noom's apps that enhances the user experience
Partner with the Noom marketing team to visually express big ideas by seamlessly integrating the disciplines of illustration, graphic design and advertising
Be a tireless advocate for the user and evangelize the importance of user feedback, and data-driven decision making in informing great design
Research and develop inspiration boards to convey the seasonal vision and inspire the team
Provide direction and implement stitch techniques
Director, Design Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Director, Design
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, NCIDQ, LEED, PE, AP, AIA, CFM, WELL, BI, CSCP
Education for Director, Design
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the director, design job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Design, Associates, Architecture, Graphic Design, Engineering, Interaction Design, Interior Design, Computer, Education, Service Design
Skills for Director, Design
Desired skills for director, design include:
Photoshop
Design
Design techniques and processes
Illustrator
Adobe Creative Suite
Product regulatory requirements/submissions
Excel
Fabrics and pattern-making skills
Color ways
Garment construction
Desired experience for director, design includes:
Understand how to incorporate LPK core competencies into the work
Ability to effectively collaborate with members of the graphics dept
You are seen as a strategic change maker and garner respect from senior leaders
You like ambiguity yet act decisively
You are skilled at breaking down complex concepts into component parts in order to explain them to others
You’ve managed teams, and they love you
Director, Design Examples
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Director, Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of director, design. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, design
- Develop innovative graphic design concepts to support the vision and achieve project objectives and timelines
- This is a design position taking projects from concept to completion
- Building and leading world class design planning and user research teams
- Lead the collaborative service design for all key projects with the project teams
- Ultimately, owning the continuous and growing momentum of the credibility of DCE design planning and research
- Implement innovative, thoughtful experience design with effective communication
- Work with clients to understand current state of rewards programs and help design/implement future rewards programs based on key business performance objectives
- Provide full scope of broad and executive-based compensation consulting services, including assessment, design, governance, and implementation services
- Lead IPO compensation planning initiatives, including equity plan design, cash incentive plan redesign, and program communications
- Gathering and interpreting product feedback
Qualifications for director, design
- You attract exceptional talent and match people to the right opportunities
- You have lead organizations to arrive at successful design solutions
- 7+ years work experience in the Apparel Industry including technical design and patternmaking with construction experience and full knowledge of total production timeline
- Design and manage all visual effects, displays, and images for product, software and prototypes
- Strong leadership, product ownership and management skills
- Proven ability to turn complex product design issues into clean, intuitive solutions
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Director, Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of director, design. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, design
- Lead the creative interiors efforts on client projects, developing overall design concepts and design presentation strategies
- Be an advocate for customer-centered design and facilitate cross-disciplinary teams through each stage of the design process
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the design team and hire great new talent to expand the design team’s capabilities
- Mentor and provide creative direction to interior design teams
- Act as the primary interior design interface with clients and consultants
- Lead and facilitate a talented, multi-disciplinary team through each stage of the design process
- Craft project approaches that challenge the status quo and lead to highly valuable and impactful design solutions
- Create highly valuable and impactful design solutions that challenge the status quo
- Provide full scope of broad and executive-based compensation consulting services, including assessment, design, governance, technical guidance, and implementation services
- At least seven years of design experience
Qualifications for director, design
- You are a design thinking expert
- Expertise working and building designs with code -- HTML/CSS required, Javascript (JQuery) and HTML5 Canvas a huge plus
- 10+ years of relevant experience including a successful track record of developing and implementing product and platform solutions based on a needs based, consultative approach combined with market intelligence, competitive analysis and business planning
- Ability to apply technology principles to facilitate the solving of complex business problems and to boil complex problems down to simple and understandable terms
- Experience in managing high volume of work and understanding of project management best practices
- Demonstrated success in building and managing virtual teams the ability to steer and motivate the organization towards a common goal
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Director, Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of director, design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for director, design
- At least five years of successful experience managing design outcomes, people and strategy
- Drive concept design for future products
- Validate design work through both quantitative and qualitative methodologies
- Align products design to support corporate and marketing brand initiatives
- Significant design experience with phone and tablet devices
- A history of managing design teams and leading them to greatness
- Drive and coordinate the calendar and process through the Design team and Cross-Functional teams including Concept, CAD, Fabric, Tech, Merchant, and Production
- Build a strong design/quality culture and team work environment
- Advocate for design excellence
- Participate in strategic business development for the Interior Design group
Qualifications for director, design
- Ability to identify, use and leverage specific development projects to use as prototypes and best practices of enterprise-wide designs
- Capture, visualize and communicate creative ideas so other team members and clients can accurately interpret them (including information design, storyboards, concept sketches, mood/color palettes )
- Open to rapid iteration and short-term problem solving long-term vision development
- 8+ years experience in corp./agency/design firm or similar
- BA in Graphic Design, User Interaction, or related field from an accredited university
- Demonstrable track record in solving complex brand challenges
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of director, design. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for director, design
- In close partnership with Group / Divisional C&B, and in response to evolving internal business priorities or changes to the external market environments, design reward programs, solutions & tools, to be leveraged across the Novartis C&B network
- Partner with Sales force effectiveness team to provide high level consultancy and expertise in Sales incentive plan design, bringing knowledge of market practices, integration with performance management and total reward approach
- Leads the buy-in and implementation of the strategies and team processes for the Visual Services design center
- Provides leadership and inculcate innovative thinking into the design center teams
- Defining and maintaining high quality deliverable and other service levels across all verticals of the design center
- Management of internal and external resources and overall function within the design center
- Develop the project design requirements and solutions
- Must possess a thorough knowledge of architectural practice with emphasis on design, building materials, construction methods, integration of engineering disciplines, and building costs/codes
- This position supervises the design department
- Stays abreast of design best practices, particularly for web, competitive and industry trends, target audience, and marketplace changes
Qualifications for director, design
- The Director should demonstrate leadership in alignment with the Core Leadership Qualities
- The Director needs to have strong leadership characteristics
- The Director should be able to define the role that Technical Design has in the product development lifecycle and maintain that role at all times
- At least twelve years of prior experience in a technical position or a senior pattern making position are required
- 10+ years progressive experience in graphic design, agency experience preferred
- A proven ability to work cross-team and understand business needs
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Director, Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of director, design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for director, design
- Record key milestones in design cycle to build next season’s design calendar
- Develop policies and procedures for the department to meet the division’s strategic objectives and to assist PIP, Plan Review & Design Managers in maintaining designs and standards that meet guest expectations in all brands and products within the assigned brands
- Design, implement and maintain a Property Improvement Plan and Plan Review process to ensure that evaluations and reports are completed in a consistent, timely, cost-effective, and professional manner
- Direct the implementation of design strategies for the Modernization Program for all assigned brands including participation in the development of plan requirements, scheduling and production of individual property evaluations and plan reviews
- Leverage state of the market design patterns and interaction models to ensure a best-in-class experience
- Lead organization design projects, fostering the development of organizational capabilities and structures needed to support the execution of the business strategy
- Stay up-to-date and informed on trends and innovations in organization design
- Maintain accurate and organized records of all seasonal design materials, blanket developments in work, and proto developments in work
- Schedule all mill visits, track all seasonal tirelle/color cards, and coordinate timely delivery to meet design dates
- Attend all stock fittings, and manage protos/prep for all design driven fittings—new collar development, new model development, etc
Qualifications for director, design
- Possess thorough knowledge of apparel design and development with technical attributes of performance
- Physical capabilities to sit for extended periods of time, bend, stoop, kneel, walk or stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to mentor and guide junior level designers to develop their own work
- Ability to build brand and style guidelines or adhere to existing guides in client work
- Understanding of industry-standard programs and software
- Ability to work in a team environment to create and direct design strategies with a focus on analytics and value of data