Principal Multi Media Designer – Creative Strategy, Enablement

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

📋 Description

• Act as a creative advisor and strategic design collaborator to the Senior Director of Creative Operations.

• Assist in sales discussions, exploratory calls, partner meetings, and client interactions that require creative knowledge.

• Transform client objectives, sales goals, and business challenges into innovative creative solutions.

• Provide creative leadership and advice on complex, high-value, or strategically significant projects.

• Develop, review, or consult on agency-level creative across various media including print, digital, social, video, branding, direct mail, billboards, packaging, product design, publications, and campaign deliverables.

• Formulate creative strategies for new business ventures, partner onboarding, premium creative services, and specialized creative requests.

• Assess appropriate scope for standard production, premium creative, Studio-level projects, and custom assignments.

• Create or assist in developing creative briefs, intake standards, client discovery inquiries, and creative readiness criteria.

• Advocate for creative quality, design feasibility, production requirements, and client experience in planning discussions.

• Clarify design choices, creative constraints, available solutions, and optimal options to sales and client-facing teams.

• Showcase creative work, design direction, and recommendations to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Produce polished final creative for strategic initiatives, samples, pitches, training, and urgent client needs.

• Aid in creative training covering design principles, multimedia best practices, AI-assisted workflows, social creative, video, brand consistency, production standards, and quality expectations.

• Create training materials, playbooks, examples, reviews, checklists, templates, and quality benchmarks.

• Guide and mentor designers and creative team members through constructive feedback, coaching, and design assistance.

• Evaluate work for concept viability, execution quality, accuracy, hierarchy, brand alignment, production readiness, and effectiveness.

• Identify quality gaps, workflow challenges, training requirements, and recurring creative deficiencies.

• Utilize and guide the responsible use of AI-assisted creative tools for ideation, versioning, image exploration, efficiency, and scalable outcomes.

• Stay updated on trends in design, advertising, social media, video, AI, print production, and client expectations.

• Support scalable templates, design systems, campaign frameworks, and repeatable creative solutions.

• Design with a focus on performance, audience behavior, clarity of offers, mobile-first composition, readability, and conversion-oriented calls to action.

• Employ accessibility-focused design practices including legibility, contrast, hierarchy, mobile readability, and inclusive digital design.

• Act as a trusted creative authority on workflow, staffing, capabilities, quality, training, AI integration, and creative operations strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• A portfolio is required, showcasing advanced creative work across multiple media and strong design thinking.

• Substantial professional experience in multimedia design, graphic design, advertising, agency creative, publishing, brand design, digital media, or a similar creative field.

• Demonstrated ability to create and guide agency-level creative across print, digital, social, video, branding, and campaign-based initiatives.

• Experience in creating or directing logos, brand identity systems, corporate stationery, branded materials, direct mail, billboards, packaging, product-related creative, glossy publications, newsprint products, digital campaigns, and social media assets.

• Strong comprehension of typography, layout, hierarchy, color, composition, branding, messaging, visual storytelling, and production accuracy.

• Capability to produce refined finished work with minimal guidance.

• Proficiency in assessing incomplete briefs, identifying missing elements, and advancing work with sound creative judgment.

• Excellent client-facing communication abilities.

• Comfortably interact with internal teams, external customers, sales leaders, creative teams, production stakeholders, and senior leadership.

• Clearly explain creative decisions to non-design audiences.

• Experience in participating in client meetings, sales dialogues, creative reviews, or discovery calls.

• Strong knowledge of print, digital, social, video, branding, and production workflows.

• Familiarity with digital advertising, social platform requirements, mobile-first design, paid social formats, display creative, email graphics, and campaign extensions.

• Experience with video, motion graphics, animation, HTML5-style creative, short-form content, or multimedia storytelling.

• Working knowledge of AI-assisted creative tools and responsible professional application.

• Skill in writing effective prompts, refining AI-assisted outputs, identifying subpar results, and avoiding generic or low-quality creative.

• Strong ability to teach, coach, mentor, and influence fellow creative professionals.

• Excellent organizational skills and capability to balance strategic work, meetings, training, creative reviews, and hands-on design tasks.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while upholding high creative standards.

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator is required.

• Solid understanding of print specifications, prepress standards, file packaging, bleed, trim, resolution, color profiles, image quality, vendor requirements, and production-ready file preparation.

• Familiarity with digital campaign, social media, display ad, email creative, and landing page asset specifications.

• Microsoft Office experience is required.

• Capability to learn company-specific workflow tools, ad tracking systems, digital asset management systems, approval platforms, and production processes.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience is preferred.

• Additional preferred experience includes agency/media/publishing/creative studio work, advertiser support, new business and pitch assistance, creative training programs, playbooks, mentoring, brand development, campaign extensions, accessibility standards, and the adoption of AI, automation, design systems, or workflow platforms.

• Applicants must submit portfolio examples that demonstrate advanced print and digital advertising, branding, social/digital campaigns, agency-level creative, typography/layout/composition, work produced with limited direction, campaign-focused creative, performance-oriented projects, and optionally video/motion/multimedia, training/presentation, and AI-assisted creative.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable compensation may be applicable.

• Remote work arrangement.