Instrument is a digital product and brand experience agency of more than 400 talented people on a dozen different teams, each focused on particular clients and dedicated to producing best-in-class work. Our shift to a remote-first model has only strengthened and diversified our company culture, and we're committed to career advancement, personal support, and a healthy work/life balance for everyone we hire.

We're looking for a hands-on, inspiring leader who's passionate about building, prototyping, and continually evolving digital products and experiences. You understand how to build relationships with clients and internal teams and can sense when to zoom into and out of the work to maintain quality and momentum. You're not precious about any one solution, because you know that exploration and iteration gets you to the right answer. You love to solve complex problems through design, but you're equally passionate about cultivating, guiding and inspiring your team to create a collaborative environment of experimentation and innovation.

In the immediate, we will need support across the two of our large clients. One is a global technology company and the other a big is in the cloud computing space. These projects are in need of leadership support to gain trust and problem solve at the account level, design support in the work for internal internal contributors, and to grow business within these two clients. This Creative Director should be a strong leader with significant experience in concept creation and UX thinking

ASAP Start. Temp Engagement with the strong potential for FT conversion

PST Hours will be required

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with other disciplines and clients to understand what a project needs at any given moment in an effort to move the work forward
• Help establish the bar for design thinking and execution on your team, shipping work, creating design guidelines, and codifying best practices and processes
• Fearlessly concept, iterate, prototype, and test in an effort to deliver strategic, elegant and simple design solutions
• Ground the work in a deep understanding of the client and push on strategic insights to stretch creative opportunities
• Influence the design team with brave and inspired design solutions, inspiring them to push their thinking and skill levels to new heights
• Produce engaging visual presentations for client work, internal projects, and business development pitches
• Consistently communicate effectively and proactively with team members and clients
• Think strategically about the project lifecycle, necessary timelines, business challenges, and the necessity of communication amongst your project team
• Invite a wide range of perspectives and help strengthen collaboration on your team through role modeling

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated experience leading teams in shipping high impact, successful digital products and experiences
• Proven experience managing, training and mentoring design teams, and steering work with clarity and actionable direction
• Experience collaborating with cross disciplinary partners and leaders
• An inclusive mindset, and an ability to reconcile diverse points of view
• Capacity for unsticking intractable roadblocks and pushing the team toward inventive solutions
• Rock solid foundation in visual design, user experience, and user interface design
• Strong verbal and visual presentation skills that get across the process, approach, and impact of your design
• A mind for best practices, paired with a willingness to try something just crazy enough to work
• Expertise in current industry tools with the ability to adapt to new technologies
• Emotional maturity and awareness, utilizing multiple styles of communication and influence to come to the best result for our clients and team
• Curiosity, humility, and a passion for doing great work

Salary

• The expected pay range for this role is $98-113 per hour (on a W-2), but will depend on the level in which you are engaged
• Our company has three regional pay bands that it adheres to depending on your location, we reference them as US 1, US 2, and US 3.
• US 3 is our base pay. Examples of cities in US 3 are Portland, Houston and Miami.
• US 2 pay is 7.5% higher than US 3 to meet the market rates. Examples of cities in US 2 are Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.
• US 1 pay is 15% higher than US 3 to meet market rates. Examples of cities in US 1 are Brooklyn and San Francisco.
• If you are curious which region you are in, please apply and get connected with our recruiting team!
• The expected full time pay range for this position is $160,000 - $185,000 for our base US Region 3*. We have three regional pay ranges that are adjusted for cost of living (US1 +15%, US2 +7.5%, US3 Base), *learn more about our pay philosophy and cost of living adjustments.