Bounteous x Accolite makes the future faster for the world's most ambitious brands. Our services span Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing. We are guided by Co-Innovation, our proven methodology of collaborative partnership.
Bounteous x Accolite brings together 5000+ employees spanning North America, APAC, and EMEA, and partnerships with leading technology providers. Through advanced digital engineering, technology solutions, and data-driven digital experiences, we create exceptional and efficient business impact and help our clients win.
Bounteous x Accolite is looking for an Associate Director to join our growing design practice.
The ideal candidate’s leadership aspirations include shaping Bounteous' Experience Design practice by leveraging their experience building and growing Design teams and their expertise in product, campaign, and brand design, while also honing the craft, influencing the culture, and fueling collaboration across global teams to contribute to and create impactful, meaningful experiences people love and clients value.
A naturally engaging storyteller, your vision influences, inspires and motivates teams, clients, and other cross-disciplinary leaders to exceed expectations in amazingly relevant ways.
You’ll be a key partner in our Experience Design leadership, helping shape the future of our growing XD practice while also helping make long-lasting impact for our clients and within Bounteous.
The Experience Design Team at Bounteous is a multidisciplinary collaboration of humans who create meaningful experiences people love and clients value, with expertise in product, campaign, and brand design.
In addition, you’ll be afforded the opportunity to participate in several employee resource groups (ERGs) that allow you to tap into your personal identities, interests and passions. Our ERGs celebrate ethnic diversity, life as a working parent or caregiver, the LGBTQ+ community, wellbeing, and more. Regardless of your interests, there is no shortage of opportunities to becoming a part of the Bounteous community.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Awareness on information security measures such as acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, password security
- Understand and report security risks and how they impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand how data is stored, processed, or transmitted from a Data privacy and protection standpoint
Role and Responsibilities
- Leads, inspires, and motivates teams to create and deliver influential, innovative, best-in-class, customer-centric solutions that drive business goals
- Shapes and directs creative strategy and deliverables from concepts through execution for a variety of digital channels, platforms, and experiences
- Facilitates and oversees discovery and creative activities such as experience strategy development, design workshops, conceptual design, copywriting and art direction, production oversight, and concepting for photoshoots and video production
- Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams and partners closely to establish strategy, and align goals with tactics
- Oversees quality, consistency, and feasibility of digital design deliverables, ensuring they meet the needs of development and technical teams
- Participates in broader practice and organization efforts related to our team’s capabilities, growth, culture, and values
- Is a career coach for other XD team members to set and work towards career goals, and help identify training and development needs
- Supports initiatives to up-skill our team in the craft and elevates the quality of our work
- Assists in practice development initiatives and supports team recruiting efforts
- Contributes to new business development and organic growth through solutioning, scoping, and creative concepting
- Consistently shares trends, new methods and tools, and training opportunities
- Participates and/or presents at industry conferences and events and within local design communities
- Contributes to thought leadership such as industry articles and blog posts
- Juggles multiple clients, projects, and tracks of work simultaneously
- Manages time effectively and proactively communicates with project team members
- Is a liaison with and builds bridges between global cross-functional project team members on behalf of the project XD Team members
Preferred Qualifications
- B.S./B.A./B.F.A. in graphic design, digital design, visual communication, or other design-related fields
- The Associate Director will work closely with our North American team on a daily basis; therefore, the 2-4 working hours of this role will overlap with North American time.
- 10+ years of experience as a creative professional, with a focus on design, user experience, and storytelling. Consulting/Agency experience is a plus.
- A diverse portfolio which demonstrates in-depth digital design experience, outstanding craft, and strategic thinking, with multiple examples of mobile design
- Experience mentoring and managing project teams and direct reports
- Experience leading projects with a strong voice for creative and meticulous eye for detail
- Ability to provide creative direction as well as overall leadership support for strategic and account direction
- Experience in estimating, pitching, planning, and staffing work
- Excellent presentation skills and communication abilities
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience in Adobe After Effects or similar motion graphics programs is a plus
- Excellent listener with a passion for human-centered design
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Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria of a job posting. If you have passion and intelligence, and possess a technical knack (even if you’re missing some of the above), we encourage you to apply.
Bounteous x Accolite is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to Bounteous x Accolite. Bounteous x Accolite does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
In addition, you have the opportunity to participate in several Team Member Networks, sometimes referred to as employee resource groups (ERGs), that host space with individuals with shared identities, interests, and passions. Our Team Member Networks celebrate communities of color, life as a working parent or caregiver, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, wellbeing, and more. Regardless of your respective identity, there are various avenues we involve team members in the Bounteous x Accolite community.
Bounteous x Accolite is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.
What We Do
Founded in 2003 in Chicago, we’re a leading global digital experience consultancy that elevates brand experiences and drives superior client outcomes with services in Strategy & Insights, Experience Design, Technology, Analytics, and Marketing. Our services are designed around a single, unifying purpose: to help brands compete and win through a continuous and collaborative partnership we call co-innovation. Our people, our clients, and our partners are what put the “us” in Bounteous.
Why Work With Us
Our company's success is a product of our people. We hire the best and brightest professionals to co-innovate with brands on their digital futures. With state-of-the-art collaboration centers worldwide we’re able to co-innovate with clients and build lasting connections with team members to foster career growth.
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