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Role Description
We are seeking an Associate Design Director with a sophisticated design approach to help elevate our visual identity and brand in our products. As a hybrid role, you will both design direct our brand within the product and also find untapped opportunities within it for thoughtful brand expression. You’ll lead a unique team that will bridge product design and brand design through visual craft, education and by creating scalable design processes that help express our brand into the Dropbox products. Your role will be closely partner with the Dropbox Interface Guidelines (DIG) design systems team and will report into the executive creative director leading the Brand Studio. The design systems team has 3-5 product designers; this role with be the brand & visual design voice in the room. It’s a pivotal role in maintaining our visual identity system guidelines in our products and critiquing design work with an eye for visual design, brand strategy and systems. Through pro-active collaboration with strategists, writers, designers and engineers, you will build creative ways to tell the Dropbox story.
Responsibilities
- Elevate the visual design of our product and thoughtfully integrate the expression of our brand
- Comprehensively understand the Visual Identity System and Dropbox Interface Guidelines (DIG), and be able to identify areas for growth, refinement, consolidation or inconsistency.
- Act as a representative of brand in product teams, and a representative of product in brand team conversations.
- Ability to think end to end, ensuring design decisions in our product are in alignment with the rest of the customers experience outside of the product.
- Work collaboratively with brand and product design teams, critiquing and reviewing work during office hours, and building relationships across the design org.
- Provide internal education, training, new tooling, resources and ways for both brand and product teams to be more efficient and collaborative.
- Strong ability to write guidelines; coach and educate from those guidelines.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of relevant experience working in-house.
- Fluency in Figma and Figma tooling
- A strong design portfolio showcasing web, digital, interactive, systems work.
- Excellent visual design and typography skills.
- Expert coaching and mentoring other designers on visual design.
- Able to independently drive multiple projects at a time, meet tight deadlines, and push projects further than expected.
- Pro-active and can push through ambiguity or challenge to give teams clear direction
- Effectively communicate ideas and strategic rationale.
- Engage in brainstorming sessions and constructive design critiques.
- Embrace an iterative design process and be receptive to feedback.
- Foster strong working relationships with team members and cross-functional partners.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Experience working on and contributing to design systems teams is a plus.
- Experience with motion and prototyping is a plus.
Questions & answers for this job
- What is the type of contract for this job?The contract for this job is a Full-time contract
- What's the salary range for the Product Design Manager, Brand Studio position?The suggested salary for this job is $152,100 - $185,900*
- Is telecommuting possible for this job?Yes, telecommuting is possible for this job
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