Overview
DEPT® is 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.
We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture is guided by three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. At DEPT®, you will find the space to collaborate, trust to make a real impact for our clients, colleagues, and the world we are helping to build.
The Role
The Principal, Visual Design role requires a visionary approach, collaborating with the creative team to meet client needs and establish benchmarks for conceptual and visual design excellence. A core responsibility is to challenge the team’s thinking and deliver transformative, best-in-class solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep user focus with an exceptional eye for detail, along with strong leadership, collaboration, and execution skills. You are committed to meticulous detail and leveraging challenges as opportunities for growth. As part of the creative leadership team, you will play a crucial role in executing the overarching creative and design strategy, ensuring the team’s activities contribute to the organization’s strategic success.
Role emphasis: leadership, design excellence, collaboration, and impact across client work and internal operations.
What You’ll Do
- 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 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.
What 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.
- 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.
What We Offer
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401K plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
We Support You Being You
DEPT® is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We are committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and workplace, regardless of identity, background, beliefs, lifestyle or disabilities. We are happy to discuss accommodations during the recruitment process and time with us. DEPT® participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization in the U.S. We are a B Corp-certified company with a focus on purpose-driven work and open culture for ideas to improve the world.
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