Senior Director of Innovation Design - ICON (Santa Monica, CA)
As the Sr. Director of Innovation Design, you will be leading one of icon’s core competencies: envisioning, designing, and building the next generation of impactful digital product and service experiences. With your knowledge and expertise, you will serve as a leading creative force internally and externally, both overseeing client relations and making decisive contribution to icon impact’s future orientation, helping us grow and pioneer new solutions and offerings for our clients. $150k - $190k.
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We’re looking for a progressive and ambitious creative leader with experience in designing stunning, successful and holistic digital product and service experiences across all industries. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of innovation practice, multiple design disciplines, and strong relational and communicative skills.
Responsibilities
Lead our holistic innovation design practice for icon impact USA
Provide design leadership for all our clients with highest quality design recommendations and executions, from ideation to final delivery
Visualize early concepts and ideas to showcase potential future solutions across all touchpoints, applying your experience across different industries
Be a great storyteller designing awesome pitch decks and presentations
Have a hands-on attitude, get it done and wow us and our clients with your passionate ideas and design solutions – able to balance pragmatism with obsession
Think and act outside the box! We’re looking for the “never before seen”
Be comfortable and enjoy trying out new tools, methods and approaches… enjoy thinking about What if!?
Contribute to creating new types of innovation offerings for our clients
Foster an internal culture that attracts and produces next gen innovation makers and creators
Manage multiple clients and projects including day day-to-day responsibilities of accounts from an innovation design perspective
Qualifications
Exceptional visual, written and verbal communications skills
Views challenges as opportunities
An entrepreneurial spirit, flexible and quick to grasp new topics and strong willingness to drive real innovation. Thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes unpredictable environment, appreciate the uncertainty as opportunity to make an impact
Strong curiosity for digital and technological trends across industries and society
Dedicated to creating a culture of pioneering spirit, creativity, quality, and excellence
Organized with an eye for detail
10+ years professional experience as an Experience Designer building, prototyping, and continually evolving digital products from ideation to implementation in an innovation consultancy, creative agency or digital design studio
Proven expertise - a mix of UI, UX, experience skill sets
Strong expertise in visual design and communications design, creating and working in design systems for all kinds of digital touchpoints
Experience leading digital projects from conception to delivery
Deep understanding of the latest design, emerging technologies (web3, AI, MR,…) and business trends to apply in digital transformation and digital product innovation
Proven skills in managing high profile clients and developing strong client relationships at an executive or C-level
Experience in setting up and leading international projects and cross- functional teams
Strong experience in leading, growing and challenging the team / change management
About Us
We are icon impact. We are a group of rebellious creators that challenge “what is” with “what if” and partner with business visionaries to create the future. We are a future-forward, new type of innovation firm with a 20+ year track record creating the new.
It’s our 6th sense that sets us apart. We detect trends and opportunities before our clients do, then collaborate with our partners to develop innovative and immersive experiences, from smart products to virtual experiences to connected ecosystems, to elevate and transform businesses in ways no one thought possible.
Our US Headquarters is located in beautiful Santa Monica, CA, but we remain close to our sister studios in Detroit, Berlin, and Shanghai. icon impact is ever evolving, made different each day by the people that work here. We are continuously changed for the better, transformed by the products, features, and services we create for our customers.
Wherever or whatever it may be, we can’t wait to see where our people are going to take us. Interested?