Design Director (AI)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote (PST)

Salary: $185,250–$213,750 USD annually

Company

OLIVER designs, builds, and runs bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands, partnering with more than 300 clients across 40+ countries as part of The Brandtech Group.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary creative team through critiques, coaching, feedback, and structured knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute hands-on to concepting and design while setting the quality bar for campaign, brand, and localized creative work.
• Review and audit creative output before client delivery, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines, voice, and creative vision.
• Partner with the OLIVER Business Director and client stakeholders to manage studio operations, timelines, workloads, and delivery priorities.
• Integrate generative AI tools into creative workflows and establish quality standards and governance for AI-assisted output.
• Drive AI adoption, share best practices, and apply systematic approaches to complex creative and operational challenges.

Requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating expertise in brand systems, campaign craft, and multi-format creative execution at scale.
• Proven experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams in high-volume, fast-paced environments.
• Deep expertise in brand identity and creative systems across markets, channels, and formats.
• Experience running creative quality processes, setting standards, and developing team output.
• Advanced proficiency with generative AI tools such as Midjourney and Adobe Firefly, including building AI-assisted workflows and setting AI quality governance.
• Expert proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, plus strong stakeholder and client collaboration skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an established embedded creative studio serving a global B2B technology brand.
• Values include ambition, imagination, inspiration, continuous learning, results focus, and active inclusion.
• Inclusive working environment focused on equal opportunity and enabling employees to reach their full potential.
• Sustainability is embedded across departments and throughout the project lifecycle.