Group Design Director, Brand

Company description

About Team One:

Team One is Publicis Groupe’s fully integrated media, digital, and communications agency built to help premium brands thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We’re known as the ‘architects of aspiration’ helping luxury brands reach modern affluents and next-gen consumers through culturally fluent strategies and experiences, unmatched access, and the agility to move at the speed of culture.

We’re a team of 400+ creators, doers, and difference-makers across six North American offices—Los Angeles (our HQ), Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boise. Together, we’re proud partners to iconic brands, including Lexus and the Lexus Dealer Association, Marriott International, The Ritz-Carlton, Barclays, The Real Real, HKS Architects, Metabo HPT, KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moėt Hennessy, Citi., and Cathay Pacific Airlines.

We take pride in our industry-shaping creativity, connection, and exceptional culture that have been recognized with honors like Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators and Ad Age’s Best Places to Work.

The Kind of Design Leader We’re Looking For:

You see the brand itself as an experience.

You understand that content, social, digital interactions, physical environments, technology,
service, programming and culture are all design materials
—and that the strongest brands create continuity across all of them.

You can move comfortably from thinking about how a brand appears in someone's feed to how it feelswhen they walk through its doors.

You understand the power of physical experience, but you also understand that the most influential physical experiences no longer end at the edge of the space. They become content. They create participation. They travel through communities and culture.

Most importantly, you know how to orchestrate all of those expressions into a brand world that feels distinctive, desirable and unmistakably premium.

About this Position:

We’re looking for a Group Design Director who can help construct brands of elevated aspiration and worth—someone with a modern point of view on luxury and premium design and the conceptualability to shape how a brand is experienced across every expression of its world.

This person will lead with a brand experience mindset
, understanding that a brand is no longer defined by any single channel or execution. It is experienced through content and social, digital products and platforms,
places and spaces, events and activations
, emerging technologies, and the moments where all of those things intersect.

The Group Design Director will help establish and uphold a cohesive design vision across that entire ecosystem—ensuring the same level of aspiration, distinction and craft carries from a piece of content to a digital interaction to a physical experience.

A significant part of this role will be helping Team One expand how we design for the real world. We’relooking for someone who understands how brands can inhabit places, spaces and experiences, and howthose physical experiences can become catalysts for content, conversation, participation and social expression.

This is not a role for a traditional visual designer who thinks primarily in campaigns, nor are we looking for a deeply technical experiential specialist. We’re looking for a multidisciplinary design leader who can
see and orchestrate the entire brand experience
.

They will partner closely with creative directors, designers, strategists, social and content teams, producers, technologists and clients to turn ambitious brand ideas into distinctive, connected experiences.

Lead the Brand Experience

• Establish and guide the design vision for how our clients' brands are experienced across content, social, digital, physical and…