Lead Designer

Albertsons Companies • Pleasanton, CA

1d • $105,900 - $137,580

About The Position

The Design Lead plays a critical role in shaping and elevating the Albertsons brand through exceptional creative execution and hands-on leadership. This role balances design excellence, creative direction, and team mentorship, ensuring delivery of high-impact, customer-centric design across all touchpoints. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams while actively contributing to concept development and execution—setting the creative bar and guiding others to meet it.

Requirements

• 6–10 plus years of professional design experience, preferably in retail, CPG, eCommerce, or agency environments
• Proven experience delivering integrated, omnichannel creative (digital, print, in-store, social, and campaign work)
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality brand storytelling and campaign execution across multiple touchpoints
• Experience leading creative workstreams or acting as a design lead on key projects, with increasing ownership of outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, guide, or informally manage designers (even without direct reports)
• Track record of providing clear creative direction, feedback, and design standards
• Experience working within and evolving established brand systems, guidelines, or design frameworks
• Ability to scale creative across multiple brands, formats, or business units (highly relevant for Albertsons banners)
• Familiarity with design systems, templates, and repeatable assets that enable efficiency and consistency
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience with modern tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, or similar collaborative platforms
• Working knowledge of design for digital platforms (web, mobile, email, social)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in multi-brand or enterprise retail environments
• Motion, video, or content creation experience
• Experience contributing to or building design systems at scale

Responsibilities

• Lead the conceptualization, design, and execution of creative assets across digital, print, retail, and omnichannel touchpoints.
• Set the creative standard through hands-on design work and direction, ensuring high-quality, brand-aligned outputs.
• Translate brand strategy into compelling visual storytelling that resonates with customers.
• Ensure consistency across all creative deliverables while evolving and modernizing the visual identity.
• Uphold and evolve brand guidelines, systems, and templates for scalability across banners and channels.
• Facilitate ideation sessions to generate innovative concepts and solutions.
• Stay current on design trends, tools, and technologies to continuously elevate creative output.
• Champion experimentation and fresh thinking to keep the brand competitive and relevant.
• Translate marketing strategies and customer insights into impactful design solutions.
• Create visually engaging experiences that improve in-store, digital, and promotional engagement.
• Incorporate shopper behavior and performance insights into design development.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate creative effectiveness and optimize outcomes.
• Provide day-to-day creative direction, feedback, and coaching to designers.
• Act as a mentor and role model, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• Support skill development by sharing best practices, tools, and techniques.
• Help guide prioritization and workload balancing across projects.
• Manage design workflows and ensure timely delivery of high-quality creative assets.
• Partner with project managers and stakeholders to align on timelines, scope, and priorities.
• Maintain visibility into project progress and proactively resolve challenges.
• Balance speed-to-market with creative quality and attention to detail.
• Partner with marketing, digital, retail, merchandising, and product teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Clearly communicate design concepts and rationale to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Align creative output with business objectives, campaigns, and seasonal initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay)
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
• medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• sick pay
• PTO/Vacation Pay or Flexible Time Off
• paid holidays
• bereavement pay
• retirement benefits (pension and/or 401k eligibility)

What This Job Offers

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