Associate Creative Director - Experience Design

Company Description

About Team One: Team One is Publicis Groupe’s fully integrated media, digital, and communications agency built to help premium brands thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We’re known as the ‘architects of aspiration’ helping luxury brands reach modern affluents and next-gen consumers through culturally fluent strategies and experiences, unmatched access, and the agility to move at the speed of culture.  

We’re a team of 400+ creators, doers, and difference-makers across six North American offices—Los Angeles (our HQ), Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boise. Together, we’re proud partners to iconic brands, including Lexus and the Lexus Dealer Association, Marriott International, The Ritz-Carlton, Barclays, The RealReal, HKS Architects, Metabo HPT, KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moėt Hennessy, Citi., and Cathay Pacific Airlines.

We take pride in our industry-shaping creativity, connection, and exceptional culture (that has landed us awards like Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators and Ad Age's "Best Places to Work" in 2024).

Overview

About this Position: 

The Associate Creative Director, Experience Design brings bold ideas and a passion for creating standout digital experiences. In this leadership role, you’ll inspire our design team while shaping audience-first experience models that connect brand goals with user needs. You’ll collaborate closely with clients and agency partners to turn insights into innovative, human-centered solutions—from concept through execution.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead and manage a team of UX designers and researchers - creating an environment that fosters creativity and collaboration
• Connect design strategy to business results
• Assist in defining the UX vision and advancing the UX design efforts for Team One’s clients and within the agency
• Assist in directing quantitative and qualitative user research; craft how we synthesize data from multiple sources to identify opportunities and recommend design directions
• Work cross functionally and help identify user requirements to shape and prioritize feature sets across multiple platforms
• Colaborate and maintain an adaptable, scalable design system that seamlessly aligns with our brand identity, ensuring a consistent user experience across all digital platforms.
• Embrace both user testing and A/B testing as methodologies to understand what design and interactions best work toward acquiring more members and retaining them
• Lead projects, create and communicate concepts to clients and team members
• Guide and mentor a multidisciplinary team of designers and creatives, fostering an environment of innovation and excellence in system design and user experience.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, using new tools and methodologies to inspire and drive innovation within the design team.

What You Bring: 

• A Bachelor’s degree, ideally
• 5+ years of mobile design and UX experience, with 2+ years’ experience in managing teams (bonus if that experience is at a creative agency)
• A strong understanding of digital design and execution
• Expertise with the latest version of the Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and G Suite
• A robust portfolio that shows a range of user focused desktop and mobile design solutions
• Experience with strategic brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development and creative execution
• Balanced interaction design skills, visual design sensibilities, and understanding of how subject areas exist together
• Knowledge of motion graphic and interaction design skills
• Experience and/or interest in 3D interaction patterns and interfaces both in 2D planes and within a 3D space
• In-depth understanding of HTML/dHTML and the capabilities of web browsers
• Experience with user testing and A/B testing
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills
• Strong command of agile development processes and rituals
• Experience with various platforms (web/mobile/tablet)
• Ability to travel as needed

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. 

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.  Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K,  as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $105,165.00  - $$158,290.00 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/21/25.

 

Compensation Range: USD $105,165.00 - USD $158,290.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/15/2025.