Creative Director

The Creative Director at MetaLab is responsible for setting the design direction for digital products and experiences, leading strategic ideation, coaching and mentoring the design team, and ensuring the quality and innovation of the work. They play a hands-on role in unlocking creativity either directly in the design file or through feedback and critiques. Additionally, they are expected to drive the future of design craft and execution, elevate the team's critique and presentation skills, and foster the growth and development of the design team.

• Establishing the design direction for digital products and experiences
• Leading the strategic ideation of features and concept work
• Coaching design team members on crafting a solid design rationale
• Effectively communicating and selling through the design direction to an executive client team
• Translating a design direction to a product design system that team members can take into tracks of production work
• Experience briefing, inspiring, collaborating with the project team
• Reviewing the work of the project team to ensure all work is meeting standards of quality and innovation
• Ability to support, guide, and mentor brand designers when needed
• Ensuring the project team designs product solutions that are viable, feasible, desirable, and differentiated
• Guiding the overall project team's health and success in collaboration with project leads
• Fostering the growth and development of the design team by sharing knowledge and upleveling the team on the craft side
• Defining and driving the future of design craft and execution at MetaLab
• Elevating the design org's critique skills by sharing best practices and techniques, facilitating workshops, and providing mentorship in this area
• Helping educate the team at MetaLab on the best way to give and receive design feedback
• Elevating the design org's presentation, communication, and storytelling skills by leading through example and sharing best practices and techniques, feedback, facilitating workshops, and providing mentorship in this area.

• Expertise in design direction for digital products and experiences
• Ability to lead strategic ideation of features and concept work
• Proficiency in coaching design team members on crafting a solid design rationale
• Effective communication and selling skills to executive client team
• Experience in translating design direction to a product design system
• Ability to brief, inspire, and collaborate with the project team
• Strong reviewing skills to ensure work meets quality and innovation standards
• Capability to support, guide, and mentor brand designers
• Knowledge and understanding of viable, feasible, desirable, and differentiated product solutions
• Ability to guide overall project team's health and success
• Dedication to fostering growth and development of the design team
• Drive and define the future of design craft and execution
• Proficiency in elevating design org's critique skills and providing mentorship
• Strong presentation, communication, and storytelling skills
• Ability to lead by example and share best practices and techniques for feedback, facilitation, and mentorship

• Flexible working hours (open to candidates based +/- 3 hours PT)
• Opportunity to work with companies that are ready to change the world
• Chance to create products that improve lives, reshape markets, and shift culture
• Thought leadership in the industry
• Hands-on establishment of design direction for digital products and experiences
• Leading strategic ideation of features and concept work
• Coaching and mentoring design team members
• Effective communication and selling through design direction to executive client team
• Translating design direction to a product design system
• Experience briefing, inspiring, and collaborating with the project team
• Reviewing work to ensure standards of quality and innovation are met
• Support, guidance, and mentorship for brand designers
• Ensuring product solutions are viable, feasible, desirable, and differentiated
• Guiding overall project team's health and success
• Foster growth and development of the design team
• Defining and driving the future of design craft and execution
• Elevating design org's critique skills
• Elevating design org's presentation, communication, and storytelling skills
• Guiding the team on thinking big based on deep understanding of product area or client industry
• Fostering a culture of openness, collaboration, inclusiveness, craftsmanship, and excellence
• Support in business development and pitches
• Support in ensuring quality and alignment of public-facing materials
• Consistently selling design value, strategy, and ideas
• Collaboration and relationship-building within and outside the organization
• Equal opportunity employer with a dedication to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment.