Job Description
Associate Director – Omni Design
Virtual
We are seeking an ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OMNI DESIGN to join the Orvis Team! This is a remote position with the expectation the candidate will travel to the Vermont office 3-6 times per year.
The Associate Director Omni Design is an expert in design thinking and is principally tasked with unifying and elevating Omni-design across all channels, categories, and creative vehicles. This role leads, directs, and oversees our design methodology, type direction, illustration, and template architecture for all print & digital expressions.
For more than 165 years the Orvis name has stood for outdoor traditions, quality, and customer satisfaction. At Orvis, we do not sell what we, ourselves, would not be proud to own or give as a gift. Our associates deserve to be proud of our service and our products, and we rely on every associate to apply our pride of ownership credo to drive our quality. Good enough is not our standard. We need to strive for perfection in our products and customer service, to propel our growth and the pride that will fuel our team.
Position Interfaces:
A key leader in Orvis’ Internal Agency, Flybox, this role reports directly to the Sr. DirectorCreative and will collaborate with Flybox partners: Director-Brand Concepts, Director-Brand Editorial, Director-Brand Imagery/Content, Design Managers & Designers; and cross-functional partners: VP-Brand Marketing, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Marketing Managers, and General Merchandise Managers.
Responsibilities:
- Major player in sculpting the look/feel of the brand from a design POV in print, digital & social
- Collaborate with Flybox and Marketing Leadership to lead, develop & gain approval for periodic Strategic Design Framework refreshesdetailing unified graphic, typography & templating standards
- Lead, inspire and develop the design staff with creative energy, collaborative spirit, and clear design-direction guardrails
- Seasoned veteran in graphic design, type graphics, and brand-standards designboth hands-on and as a director of work to downstream designers
- Partner with Design Managers & Marketing to ensure a unified look & feel for all creative executions across the house
- Proven presenter of work with ability to dramatize how design templates & creative executions answer, deviate, or surpass a brief’s priorities, and why
- Hindsight with analysis partners to improve engagement and assess future direction based on past performance
- Great juggler, keeping many balls in the air with a multiplicity of stacked milestones & timelines
Competencies and Requirements:
- Deep love for the outdoors and our responsibility to leave the campsite better than we found it
- Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant technical degrees in design
- 10+ years’ working in progressive roles of responsibility in design & managing of designers/teams
- Enthusiastic storyteller through interplay of design, photography & copy
- Ability to react constructively, collaborating with partners on design changes
- Clear, honest, timely, good-natured communicatorin writing and in conversation
- Brand-standards hawk who sweats the details
- Power user of the Adobe design suite