Design Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Asia.

📋 Description

• Drive design excellence within Valerie's Centre of Excellence

• Take ownership of the visual identity and design systems for each brand in Valerie's portfolio

• Ensure that every brand maintains a unique, high-quality appearance and an effective design framework

• Lead, nurture, and mentor Valerie's design team across brand, still, motion, digital, and e-commerce design disciplines

• Integrate brand strategy, go-to-market direction, Growth Masters, and Creative Experiments into visual narratives and design systems

• Create new brands from the ground up

• Generate high-volume assets for e-commerce, paid media, social platforms, and CRM

• Utilize performance data to refine design choices

• Enhance the quality standard of work prior to submission to founders

• Develop playbooks and scalable systems for multiple brands and teams

• Conduct and engage in interviews, role-specific assessments, stakeholder discussions, and final leadership dialogues as part of the recruitment process

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in Design, Art Direction, or Design Direction within advertising, branding, digital, or integrated agencies and/or rapidly growing consumer brands

• Demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring, and developing multidisciplinary design teams

• Outstanding portfolio exhibiting a distinct aesthetic perspective across brand identity, digital, e-commerce, campaigns, and social media

• Proven track record of building brands and visual narratives from the ground up

• Experience in translating brand narratives into high-quality, high-volume asset production

• Solid understanding of e-commerce, direct-to-consumer (DTC), and digital marketing landscapes

• Profound knowledge of still and motion design, with the capability to guide multidisciplinary creative talent

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign

• Highly skilled in Figma and comfortable using Canva within scalable brand systems

• Experience managing multiple brands concurrently

• Ability to maintain significant working-hour overlap with the team based in India

• Experience designing for global audiences, with an understanding of visual language across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand

• Bonus: experience with small to medium enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, or high-growth consumer businesses

• Bonus: strong skills in presentation and deck design

• Bonus: experience extending brand narratives into packaging, retail, point of sale (POS), or physical experiences

• Bonus: familiarity with AI for design development, adaptation, and production

• Bonus: experience in creating reusable design systems, prompts, or templates for AI-driven workflows

🏝️ Benefits

• Engaging work with visible impact

• Significant ownership from the outset

• Collaboration with seasoned founders, operators, and specialists

• A team that prioritizes curiosity, initiative, and continuous improvement

• Competitive salary

• Tools necessary to perform at your best

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth as Valerie continues to expand

• An inclusive workplace where individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can thrive