Design Team Lead

What you will do

• Manage Design Team (currently 8 specialists). Manage in-house and outsource resources — coordinate and distribute the workload and synchronise employees.
• Formulate goals and objectives and define a common vision for the team.
• Organize a pool of tasks based on the priorities from customers (quarterly planning, weekly sprints, unplanned tasks, etc.), evaluate the complexity of tasks, and set actual deadlines.
• Control every stage of the projects, optimize processes. Be responsible for tasks execution: ensure high quality results, comply with agreements and deadlines.
• Communicate with stakeholders and project leaders, and actively interact with other teams in the department and company.
• Formulate and correct tasks from the “customer's” to the “designer's” language. Ensure transparent communication between team members and customers.
• Assist clients in generating assignments at the level of suggesting ideas and finding references.
• Resolve difficult situations between employees and customers.
• Motivate designers to propose creative ideas and promote the creative solutions of the team to clients.
• Control compliance of design with guidelines and corporate styles.
• Follow design trends, analyse and put them into practice with the team.
• Timely assess the workload in the team, and initiate the opening of vacancies. Hire and onboard employees.
• Develop the professionalism of employees. Set goals, monitor their achievement, provide timely feedback and motivate employees.
• Negotiate budgets for tasks with customers and outsourcers, process payments for outsourced work.

We are expecting that you have most of these qualifications

• You have experience as a designer (digital, video, printing) and 5+ years of organisational experience.
• You have taste and an artistic sense — you can independently distinguish good design from bad design.
• Your portfolio shows that you are well-versed in graphic design, typography, branding, and perhaps in motion design.
• Know the basic and latest design applications.
• You can describe and “show” how to complete a task.
• You know project management and workflow optimisation techniques.
• You’re good at negotiating and defending your position.
• You have experience in managing several projects simultaneously.
• You understand the difference between short-term and long-term goals, and can quickly adapt to changes.
• You have a high level of responsibility, attention to detail and can control deadlines.
• You have a well-structured mindset and knowledge of professional terminology.
• You can clearly express your thoughts and suggestions to both customers and designers.
• You know how to simplify the formulation of complex project requirements from customers and make it understandable to designers.
• You continue to grow both as a professional and as a leader.
• Your English is at the Upper Intermediate level.

Would be an advantage:

• Experience with task trackers such as Jira, YouTrack, etc.
• Experience in marketing or advertising agencies in a similar position.
• A keen sense of humour — a definite plus.

What we offer

• Health insurance, sport compensation, fully covered 10 working days of sick leave per year, 5 additional day-offs per year, English language compensation eight lessons per month paid by the company, other languages studying eight lessons per month — company pays 50%, training, quartile and annual bonuses, corporate events, gifts, comfortable office in the city center.
• It’s a full-time job position with a hybrid working system. Your work schedule can be flexible from 10 AM to 7 PM. As soon as you finish your onboarding process, it can be even more flexible.
• As for the salary: we have a fixed part and a bonus. The bonus is paid every 3 months and another one — once in a year.

Hiring steps

• Pre-screening.
• Interview with the team.