Creative Director, Design
Job Description
Lead hands-on creative direction across Verizon’s visual identity and integrated campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Concept, design, and deliver visual work spanning brand identity, integrated advertising campaigns, digital, social, and out-of-home.
- Bring a high level of craft and detail to every deliverable.
- Partner with creative teams to shape distinctive graphic languages for major Verizon campaigns and translate big ideas into cohesive, flexible visual systems.
- Work within Verizon’s established visual identity while finding fresh, unexpected ways to express the brand across audiences, platforms, and experiences.
- Contribute to brand guidelines, design systems, templates, and toolkits that help ideas scale consistently across channels.
- Collaborate with art directors, copywriters, strategists, producers, and designers to develop and execute integrated creative.
- Guide projects from initial concepts and design explorations through refinement, production, and final delivery while maintaining a high creative standard.
- Communicate design ideas, creative rationale, and visual decisions to creative leadership and internal partners; incorporate feedback while maintaining a confident point of view.
- Stay engaged with design, culture, technology, and emerging creative tools, bringing new references and experimenting where appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of work experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
Tools & Technologies
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- Generative AI
AI as Your Creative Co-Pilot
- Use emerging AI tools to accelerate exploration, experiment with new visual possibilities, and bring ideas to life faster.
- Explore how new technology can improve great design while maintaining originality and craft.
Work Location & Schedule
- New York, NY (hybrid): working from home and a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, set by your manager.
- Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.
- Scheduled weekly hours: 40.
Compensation
- Salary range (New York location(s), full-time): USD 125,500 - 219,000 per year.
- Depending on the role, compensation may include premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.
- Incentive-based position with the potential to earn more.
- For part-time roles, compensation is adjusted to reflect hours.
- Salary may vary based on location and confirmed job-related skills and experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
- Group home & auto insurance
- Matched 401(k) savings plan
- Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year
- Up to 6 personal days per year
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition assistance
- Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, growing with additional service