Design Director (Digital + Motion)

Start Date: January 5, 2026

Length: 11 Months

Hourly Rate: $145

Location: Remote- Must be okay with working PST Hours- Team is on the West Coast

Hours- 9-5 (PST); May require some OT, or weekend work at times for launches

Overview

This Design Director will operate as a digital-first creative leader who will be responsible for being deeply connected with one of their primary creative vendors. This role is not conceptual-creative-heavy. It’s about design excellence, motion fluency, speed, and clear creative problem-solving in a fast-moving environment.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead & Elevate Digital Design (100% Digital)

  • Own and refine digital design across static and motion assets.

  • Manage static assets, layouts, toolkits, and visual systems.

  • Apply and interpret “visual centers” (seasonal style guides) and translate them into high-quality, on-brief assets that scale across surfaces.

  • Ability to work on both design and motion tasks.

• Provide Motion Expertise

  • Provide motion design direction

  • Familiarity with After Effects 

  • Help guide vendors on how to bring assets to life.

• Work Closely With Agency Partners

  • Function as an extension of the vendor team—joining them “in the weeds” and collaborating day-to-day.

  • Help onboard agencies into the AI product tool fast, iterative way of working.

  • Provide the practical feedback agencies need to tell the right story—quickly and accurately.

  • Stabilize quality by offering consistent design POV and clear, concise direction.

• Collaborate Across PMMs, Product, and Creative Ops

  • Serve as a creative counterpart to PMMs and product stakeholders.

  • Translate technical or product-heavy briefs into clear creative direction.

  • Partner with PMMs with a creative producer mindset—triage asks, provide clarity, and help move assets to the finish line.

Digital + Motion Expertise

• Strong Design Director / Creative Director, with 5 + years of experience–level digital design background that is able to appropriately message stories and content through design

• Strong portfolio of experience

• Must be able to navigate and manage a lot of one time, with a great personality while doing so

• Deep understanding of web design, responsive layouts, and asset production.

• Experience in After Effects (or ability to direct AE workflows fluently).

• Demonstrated ability to work quickly without sacrificing clarity or brand consistency.

Ability to Operate in High-Speed, High-Volume Environments

• Thrives in environments where assets move through many iterations quickly.

• Looking for someone who is highly collaborative and fast moving

• Able to shoot from the hip with fast, high-quality feedback.

• Works fluidly in real time—this team is exceptionally fast-paced.

• Not precious about pixel-perfect craft when speed matters; knows how to “care, not obsess.”

Brand & System Thinking

• Comfortable developing and applying seasonal style guides / “visual centers.”

• Able to interpret brand foundations, not reinvent them.

• Supports “business as usual” creative—not big campaign concepts, but high-volume digital execution.

Team & Vendor Leadership

• Experience working closely with creative vendors; comfortable managing and elevating their work.

• Helps them understand how to tell a brand story in the right way.

• Provides simple, strategic direction rooted in business context—not artistic perfectionism.

Tools

• Figma (primary)

• After Effects

• Familiarity with digital production workflows + animation collaboration

We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the world’s biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people, swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018, We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works, with an inclusive, human-centric approach that’s better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades, including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces, the Inc. 5000 2022, and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
 

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