Creative Director, Design

Verizon • New York, NY

1d • $125,500 - $219,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Verizon is seeking a hands-on Creative Director, Design to bring the Verizon brand to life through exceptional graphic design. The role develops distinctive visual identities, campaign design systems, and polished creative work across advertising, digital, social, out-of-home, and other channels. It calls for strong conceptual instincts, refined visual taste, and a deep commitment to design craft, including typography, composition, color, and imagery. The designer will turn ideas into cohesive visual worlds and create new work as well as fresh expressions of an established brand.

The position collaborates with creative leaders, designers, and cross-functional partners to develop and execute design. It also uses emerging AI tools to accelerate exploration and experiment with visual possibilities while preserving originality and craft. The role is hybrid, with work from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office at a manager-defined location. Scheduled weekly hours are 40.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work and/or military experience or specialized training.

Nice To Haves

• Four to seven years of experience in a design studio, advertising agency, or in-house creative department, with a standout portfolio showing exceptional graphic design, conceptual thinking, and meticulous craft.
• A strong command of typography, layout, color, composition, photography, and visual storytelling, with sophisticated design judgment across styles and applications.
• Experience developing visual identities, campaign design systems, brand guidelines, and graphic toolkits for multiple channels.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, and understanding of contemporary design workflows and production techniques.
• Experience designing integrated advertising campaigns across digital, social, print, and out-of-home; familiarity with motion design is a plus.
• Ability to balance conceptual thinking with execution and take work from early exploration to production-ready assets.
• Curiosity about emerging creative technologies, including generative AI, and interest in using new tools to expand design possibilities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with confidence explaining creative thinking and openness to collaboration and feedback.
• Collaborative, low-ego attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to make ambitious, culturally relevant work with a creative team.

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and execute visual work across brand identity, integrated advertising campaigns, digital, social, and out-of-home.
• Partner with creative teams to develop distinctive graphic languages and cohesive, flexible visual systems for major campaigns.
• Apply Verizon’s established visual identity while finding fresh ways to express the brand across audiences, platforms, and experiences.
• Create and evolve brand guidelines, design systems, templates, and toolkits to support consistent creative work across channels.
• Collaborate with art directors, copywriters, strategists, producers, and designers on integrated creative ideas.
• Manage work from initial concepts and explorations through refinement, production, and final delivery, maintaining a high creative standard.
• Present design ideas, rationale, and visual decisions to creative leadership and internal partners; receive feedback and communicate a point of view.
• Keep current with design, culture, technology, and emerging creative tools, and bring new references and experimentation to the work.
• Use emerging AI tools to accelerate exploration and investigate new visual possibilities without compromising originality or craft.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefit options.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Basic and supplemental life insurance.
• AD&D insurance.
• Identity theft protection.
• Pet insurance.
• Group home and auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Tuition assistance.
• Other incentives and an award-winning total rewards package.
• Potential premium pay, including overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, or allowances, depending on the role.
• Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior