We’re looking for a Creative Design Director (Product) to lead the end-to-end design vision for a large-scale digital ecosystem transformation. This role blends product thinking, UX strategy, and creative direction. You’ll guide the full design process from concept through delivery, ensuring the experience is both visually exceptional and strategically grounded.
Responsibilities- Lead design across every phase of a multi-site web transformation initiative.
- Define the creative and experiential vision that connects brand, usability, and storytelling.
- Develop scalable design systems and component libraries to ensure consistency across products and platforms.
- Translate business goals and user insights into clear, intuitive design solutions.
- Partner with strategy, development, and brand teams to align creative direction with technical and organizational goals.
- Present design rationale and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Mentor and support designers, fostering excellence in both craft and strategic thinking.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure high design fidelity through implementation.
- Establish documentation and governance to maintain quality and scalability over time.
- 8+ years of experience in digital product and experience design, with a proven track record leading large-scale redesigns or platform builds.
- Portfolio showcasing expertise across UX, UI, and visual design.
- Strong proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools.
- Deep understanding of responsive, accessible, and system-based design.
- Experience developing or managing complex design systems across multiple sites or properties.
- Ability to synthesize business strategy, brand goals, and user needs into cohesive design outcomes.
- Strong communication skills and confidence presenting to executive stakeholders.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working across product, engineering, and creative teams.
- Experience mentoring and guiding designers at multiple levels.
Timeline: Initial 6-month engagement with potential for extension or ongoing advisory role
Level of Effort: Approximately 20–30 hours per week during active phases
The target range of base compensation for this role is $6,000 - $12,000 a month. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
About Mediacurrent
Mediacurrent is an open-source development and digital marketing agency that creates transformative digital experience platforms for enterprise, government, non-profit, and higher education organizations and their customers.
Since 2007, we have built a growing, sustainable company that believes in collaboration, education, and providing predictable results for our clients. Organizations such as The Weather Channel, PwC, New York Senate, Georgia Tech, Olympus, Habitat for Humanity, and Guardian Insurance have trusted Mediacurrent to solve their most complex digital and web challenges.
Our Values
At Mediacurrent, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace by welcoming team members from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our values as a team are to promote positive impact, empathy, and inclusivity while fostering leadership and personal growth through dignity and respect. We love having fun while we work and always make an effort to give back to our communities. Our team spans across 30+ states.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mediacurrent is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
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What We Do
We are an Open Source Product Agency defining, designing and delivering websites, platforms and digital experiences.
We are globally distributed, tenacious problem solvers who believe good ideas come from anywhere. Our strategy, design and development process is collaborative and iterative with continuous cross-disciplinary involvement and deep participation from our client partners.
Founded in 2007, what started as a Drupal-focused agency has since grown into a company that leads with a variety of Open Source platforms to help clients solve problems. We remain one of the most active contributors to the Drupal project — committed to refining and advancing technology for all to use.