Associate Director of Creative - UI/UX, Brand

February 15

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Darkroom is a vertically integrated digital agency pioneering the next generation of consumer-facing brands. Our team has been responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in market value for some of the most innovative brands in the world. Brand launches and growth engagements include VYBES, Olipop, and Maaji. A category leader in results-driven growth marketing, Darkroom’s success is attributed to our unique partnership model, purposefully built to launch brands to market and accelerate growth. Our model is predicated on four major disciplines — Brand & Identity, Digital Products, Creative Production and Growth Marketing – threaded by one cohesive, interdisciplinary team. We are selective about who we work with. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Kyiv, we attract top talent across creative advertising, growth marketing, and engineering—ensuring our clients work with subject-matter experts across all of our disciplines. Darkroom operates Darkroom Labs, Darkroom Digital, Darkroom Capital, Darkroom Studios, and DarkMatter.

Shopify Development • WordPress Development • Custom Development • Performance Creative • Creative Production

51 - 200 employees

📋 Description

• We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it. • The Associate Director of Creative is a player/coach designer who will ensure that UI/UX Design, Brand Design, and Marketing Design engagements are delivered on-time and to a high bar of visual quality. • In this role, you’ll report to the Director of Creative. • Your main focus will be people management, with the flexibility to engage in 1-2 hands-on UI/UX design projects as required. • A strong candidate has a best-in-class visual eye, clear attention-to-detail, and direct experience with managing designers.

🎯 Requirements

• 3-6+ years of senior-level design experience, with at least 1 year of people management experience preferred. Must have experience in responsive web design. • Digital portfolio showcasing web design and branding skills, including color theory, hierarchy, composition, and typography. • Self-motivated, proactive, and detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership. • Experience collaborating with developers and documenting designs for development hand-off. • Comfortable with client-facing responsibilities in English, including leading discovery calls and resolving client feedback. • Capable of providing constructive internal feedback and guiding direct reports to improve their work. • Ability to tackle ambiguous problems, understand business challenges, design solutions, and execute them effectively. • Proficiency in Figma, including features like Auto Layout, Components, and Variants, is essential. • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) is required. • Bonus: Experience in e-commerce or hospitality website design, familiarity with HTML/CSS or frameworks like Tailwind.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation Policy, and Holidays: Rebooting is one of the most important parts of growth. • Remote-first culture with a strong community base. With Hubs in LA, The Bay Area, New York, Philly, Sao Paulo, Lisbon, and Eastern Europe. • Endless opportunities for growth: Our agency is founded on an interdisciplinary approach, giving Darkroomers insights into services far beyond your job description.