Creative Director

at frog design inc.

Location: New York

If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll free you to do the best work of your career.

About frog design, inc.

frog design, inc. is one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences, frog helps Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand, and envision their businesses. Founded in Germany in 1969, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; and Stuttgart, Germany. With a cross-disciplinary team of more than 325 employees, frog offers a broad range of industry expertise, in fields such as consumer electronics, software, entertainment, finance, medical, retail, and fashion. Clients include Alltel, Disney, GE, HP, Logitech, Microsoft, MTV, Seagate, Yahoo! and others.

Description:

This leadership role requires articulating strong visions and strategies as well as overall group oversight and project direction. Background in Research, Interface Design and Strategy preferred.

* Team leadership
* Group vision
* Project ideation
* Coordination of overall creative processes
* Design strategy and advocacy (to clients)
* Resource and personnel management
* Hands-on creation of deliverables
* Extensive client contact

Essential Functional duties (most important parts of job):

The Creative Director should have deep experience and practical expertise in both Product User Interface and Website design programs. Expertise is required in at least a few of these fields (applicant should have working knowledge of most of the listed fields): User Research, PC software user interface, embedded applications, mobile applications, business software, business websites, and consumer websites. The Creative Director will be responsible for overall quality, innovation and creative vision. For individual projects, the Creative Director will integrate clients' business requirements into design strategies, interaction, and visual solutions. A balanced understanding of strategy, research, usability, interaction, and visual design is a must. The Creative Director will also mentor, guide and provide support for members of the graphic design and design analyst team, and be an advocate for needs of the team to other groups. Business development experience is preferred.

Qualifications:

* BFA or BA in related field
* 5+ years of design consulting experience
* 3+ years managerial experience
* Strong leadership skills
* Experience with user research and design strategy
* Working knowledge of basic desktop applications: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
* Awareness and practical understanding of current technologies and their application and relevance to web and user interface solutions

Please submit your resume to us at www.frogdesign.com /jobs/

Frog Design is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Interested?

Please submit your resume to us at www.frogdesign.com /jobs/