Design Director

OLIVER Agency - North America • Denver, CO

5d • $185,250 - $213,750 • Remote

About The Position

We're pairing craft with AI velocity—and we need a Design Director to lead it. We’ve launched an embedded, AI-native creative studio for one of the world's most influential B2B tech brands—a global platform company serving 85% of the Fortune 500. This isn't a traditional agency setup. You'll be leading an established, high-output creative studio that operates as a seamless extension of the client's internal global brand team. Your mission: to scale their vision with relentless craft and speed. That means taking hero campaigns, brand systems, and creative playbooks—and turning them into flawless assets across regions, channels, and formats. You'll direct a multi-disciplinary team, set the bar for quality, and ensure that every piece of work—whether it's a flagship moment or a localized event—feels unmistakably on-brand. If you're energized by the idea of combining creative excellence with operational rigor, and you thrive when empowering teams to do their best work at scale, we'd love to talk.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand system expertise, campaign craft, and multi-format creative execution at scale
• Proven experience leading and developing multi-disciplinary creative teams in high-volume, fast-paced environments — agency, in-house, or embedded studio backgrounds all welcome
• Deep expertise in brand identity and creative systems, with a track record of maintaining quality and consistency across diverse markets, channels, and formats
• Experience leading creative quality processes — running critiques, setting standards, and developing team members' output
• A collaborative, stakeholder-savvy approach, with the ability to build strong working relationships with senior clients, account teams, and cross-functional partners
• Strategic awareness of how generative AI can enhance creative quality and delivery efficiency, combined with the judgment to evaluate outputs critically and maintain creative standards
• Advanced proficiency with generative AI tools — including Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, or equivalent — and experience building AI-assisted workflows within a creative team
• Expert proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Strategic integration of generative AI across studio projects and operations
• Experience setting AI quality standards and governance at studio or team level
• Agentic leadership: a systematic, goal-oriented approach to complex creative and operational challenges
• Drives AI adoption and shares best practice across teams and into client partnerships
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, with rigorous human oversight and critical evaluation of outputs

Responsibilities

• Direct and develop a multi-level creative team — running internal critiques, sharpening executions, and building a culture where high standards are the shared expectation
• Contribute directly to concepting and design, bringing hands-on skill to the team's output and elevating work at every stage of production
• Act as the studio's final quality check, reviewing and auditing all creative work before it reaches the client
• Ensure every asset the studio produces is faithful to the client's brand guidelines, voice, and creative vision — from flagship campaign heroes to localised regional content
• Develop team members' skills and creative output through regular coaching, feedback, and structured knowledge-sharing
• Identify opportunities to improve creative processes and introduce smarter ways of working
• Build an inclusive, collaborative team culture where diverse perspectives strengthen both creative output and working relationships
• Partner with the OLIVER Business Director to manage studio operations, timelines, and the overall client experience
• Maintain strong working relationships with client creative directors, account leads, producers, and project managers
• Manage and prioritise team workloads across high-volume delivery cycles, adapting quickly when priorities or timelines shift
• Lead the integration of generative AI tools into creative workflows, setting quality standards and governance for AI-assisted output at studio level
• Drive AI adoption and share best practice across the team and the wider OLIVER network
• Apply an agentic approach to complex creative and operational challenges — breaking problems down systematically and identifying efficient, high-quality paths forward

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed