Design Team Lead

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a highly-regarded IT development firm?

Look no further WebCreek is currently searching for a **Design Team Lead** with over seven years of experience and exceptional English communication skills. **This hybrid position is based in Mexico.**

**What You'll Do**
- Effectively create strategic, on-brand, and responsive creative work based on the creative brief.
- Collaborate with project managers, account and business representatives, as well as in-house and external digital and creative team members to develop daily concepts and designs.
- Participate in and/or facilitate kick-off meetings to gain an understanding of business strategies, goals, and objectives.
- Clearly communicate design decisions and proactively manage timing expectations with stakeholders throughout the creative process.
- Stay updated on emerging design trends and how competitors utilize design for differentiation.
- Supervise creative work, including graphic design, illustration, layout, 3D, printing, production, video, photo editing, motion graphics, UI, UX, and CX.
- Generate fresh and innovative ideas for client projects and internal operations.
- Foster a team-oriented, growth-focused, and learning-driven mindset within the team, ensuring that all direct reports feel supported and can thrive.
- Collaborate with team members to handle individual workloads, coach and develop team members (including agile methodology), and ensure effective project delivery.
- Cultivate strong client relationships across cross-functional teams with the help of team members.
- Act as an escalation point and promptly address issues when necessary.
- Represent the design team and efficiently manage their workloads. Play a role in reviewing project and work requests to ensure alignment with team capabilities and briefs.
- Effectively handle creative consistency issues and complex brand decisions with team members and stakeholders.
- Promote ongoing team awareness of current trends in social, digital, virtual, and print design, as well as market dynamics.

**What You Have**
- **Minimum of 7-10 years of proven design or brand experience in the B2B and B2C space.**:

- Minimum of **2 years of team leadership experience.**:

- Strong communication and relationship-building skills in a global context.
- Ability to develop strong, collaborative, and positive working relationships with direct reports, peers, and leadership.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- A proven portfolio in branding, graphic design, illustration, layout, 3D, printing, production, and photo editing.
- **Superior proficiency in the following software: Adobe Creative Suite; Photoshop; Illustrator; PowerPoint; Word; Acrobat; After Effects; Figma.**:

- Ability to effectively allocate work among team members, including estimating time requirements for design work.
- Experience in starting up a new team is a plus.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, or Communications is required.
- **Agency experience is a plus.**:

- **Fluency in English is required.**

**Experience**:

- Leadership: 2 years (required)
- Design and Brand: 7 years (required)
- Digital Design Industry: 5 years (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Ciudad de México, CDMX (required)