Director of Graphic Design

CardsHQ, LLC is seeking a hands-on Director of Graphic Design to lead the graphics team, strengthen creative standards, and ensure brand-consistent work is delivered with accuracy and speed. This role combines expert design execution with organized project management and quality control.

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of graphic and motion designers.
• Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback to support strong design outcomes.
• Set and maintain a high standard for design quality across the department.
• Assign projects based on priorities, deadlines, workload, and individual strengths.
• Create accountability around ownership, communication, and completion of projects.
• Run regular team meetings and 1:1s to keep both projects and individual development on track.
• Operate as an expert-level graphic designer, producing high-quality work across a wide range of projects.
• Step into important or challenging projects when needed, and review work before delivery to confirm it meets creative standards.
• Deliver thoughtful feedback that improves both the immediate project and the designer’s overall process.
• Establish consistent creative standards across company brands and platforms.
• Develop, document, and implement comprehensive brand guidelines across all company brands.
• Ensure each brand maintains a clear, consistent visual identity while fitting within the broader company ecosystem.
• Set standards for typography, color, logo usage, layout, imagery, templates, and other core visual elements.
• Ensure designers and cross-functional teams understand and consistently apply brand standards.
• Continuously evolve brand guidelines as the company, products, and creative needs grow.
• Identify inconsistencies across existing creative and develop solutions to improve cohesion and brand recognition.
• Oversee department workflow from request through final delivery.
• Manage projects and assignments using task management platforms such as
• Maintain visibility into active projects, including owner, priority, status, and deadline.
• Identify potential bottlenecks or missed deadlines early and communicate proactively when priorities, resources, or timelines change.
• Build systems and processes that support high-volume production efficiently.
• Treat deadlines as commitments and reinforce a team culture where missed deadlines are the exception.
• Serve as a final quality-control checkpoint for important creative work, catching spelling errors, alignment issues, incorrect assets, formatting problems, and other small mistakes before delivery.
• Ensure feedback is fully addressed before projects are marked complete.
• Maintain organized project files, assets, templates, and shared resources.
• Work with multiple departments to understand project goals, priorities, timelines, and business needs, and translate objectives into effective visual creative.
• Ask the right questions upfront so designers understand the purpose and expectations of each project.
• Partner with department leaders to prioritize work and keep the Graphics Team focused on highest-impact projects.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, available resources, and business priorities.

• Extensive professional graphic design experience, with a portfolio showing excellent design judgment and execution.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
  , Adobe Illustrator
  , Figma
  , and other relevant design tools.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of designers.
• Experience developing and implementing brand guidelines across multiple brands or business units.
• Strong ability to provide constructive creative feedback and develop other designers.
• Highly organized approach to managing many simultaneous projects.
• Experience using project-management tools such as ,
  Asana
  , Click…