Creative Director, Design

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

We’re looking for a talented, ambitious Creative Director/Design to help bring the Verizon brand to life through exceptional graphic design. You’ll work alongside some of the industry’s best creative minds to develop distinctive visual identities, campaign design systems, and beautifully crafted work that reaches millions of people.

This is a hands-on role for someone with exceptional taste, strong conceptual instincts, and a genuine obsession with the craft of design. You love typography, composition, color, and imagery. You can take a compelling idea and turn it into a cohesive visual world. And you’re equally excited about creating something entirely new as you are about finding a fresh expression of an established brand.

You’ll collaborate with Creative Directors, designers, and cross-functional partners to develop and execute design across advertising, digital, social, out-of-home, and beyond. You’ll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact on one of America’s most recognizable brands while continuing to develop your own creative voice.

AI as Your Creative Co-Pilot: We believe AI should expand human creativity, not replace it. You’ll use emerging AI tools to accelerate exploration, experiment with new visual possibilities, and bring ideas to life faster. We’re looking for someone who’s curious, resourceful, and excited to explore how new technology can make great design even better—without compromising originality or craft.

Responsibilities include:

• Create Exceptional Design: Concept, design, and execute compelling visual work across brand identity, integrated advertising campaigns, digital, social, and out-of-home. Bring a high level of craft and attention to detail to everything you make.
• Develop Campaign Visual Identities: Partner with creative teams to develop distinctive graphic languages for major Verizon campaigns, translating big ideas into cohesive, flexible visual systems.
• Bring the Brand to Life: Work within Verizon’s established visual identity while finding fresh, unexpected ways to express the brand across different audiences, platforms, and experiences.
• Build Design Systems & Toolkits: Help create and evolve brand guidelines, design systems, templates, and toolkits that allow great creative ideas to scale consistently across channels.
• Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work closely with art directors, copywriters, strategists, producers, and fellow designers to develop and execute integrated creative ideas.
• Own the Craft: Take projects from initial concepts and design explorations through refinement, production, and final delivery, ensuring every detail meets a high creative standard.
• Present Your Thinking: Clearly communicate design ideas, creative rationale, and visual decisions to creative leadership and internal partners. Be open to feedback and confident in your point of view.
• Push What’s Possible: Stay curious about design, culture, technology, and emerging creative tools. Bring new references, fresh thinking, and a willingness to experiment to the work.

What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:

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

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Four to seven years of experience in a design studio, advertising agency, or in-house creative department, with a standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional graphic design, strong conceptual thinking, and meticulous craft.
• A deep passion for typography, layout, color, composition, photography, and visual storytelling, with the ability to make sophisticated design decisions across a range of styles and applications.
• Experience developing visual identities, campaign design systems, brand guidelines, and graphic toolkits that translate across multiple channels.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, with a strong understanding of contemporary design workflows and production techniques.
• Experience designing for integrated advertising campaigns, including digital, social, print, and out-of-home. Familiarity with motion design is a plus.
• The ability to balance strong conceptual thinking with exceptional execution, taking work from early exploration through finished, production-ready assets.
• A curiosity about emerging creative technologies, including generative AI, and an interest in using new tools to push the possibilities of design.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to explain your creative thinking and the openness to collaborate and incorporate feedback.
• A collaborative, low-ego attitude, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a genuine desire to make ambitious, culturally relevant work with a talented creative team.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a 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 and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $125,500.00 - $219,000.00.