Group Design Supervisor

Job Description

The Group Design Supervisor provides hands-on design leadership within Klick’s shared-service Creative team, developing thoughtful visual concepts and scalable design systems across a mix of brands and assignments. Working across multiple projects and stakeholders, this role balances hands-on design with the direction and development of other designers. The role partners with Creative leadership, copy, client services, and cross-functional teams to turn strategic briefs into compelling, well-crafted visual solutions and is positioned to grow toward Associate Design Director-level responsibilities. 

What You’ll Do:

• Create conceptual visual solutions and scalable design systems using Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, translating creative briefs into cohesive work across brands and channels.
• Lead concurrent design projects from concept through delivery, balancing hands-on design with delegation, design reviews, stakeholder input, timelines, and production requirements.
• Present design concepts and rationale to creative leaders, clients, and cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating feedback while maintaining the integrity and strategic intent of the work.
• Direct and mentor designers through clear briefs, design critiques, and actionable feedback, helping strengthen craft while maintaining a consistent standard of visual quality.
• Partner across Creative and other disciplines to evolve design systems, explore AI-enabled design workflows, and deliver adaptable visual solutions for stakeholders across multiple brands. 

Qualifications

Required:

• 7+ years of professional graphic or digital design experience preferred, with a portfolio demonstrating highly conceptual thinking, strong visual craft, and ownership of sophisticated design work
• Demonstrated experience creating and evolving design systems, with portfolio examples showing how visual principles and components were applied consistently across multiple assets, channels, or brand touchpoints.
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, plus demonstrated Figma experience producing professional design deliverables and collaborative design systems.
• Experience leading concurrent creative projects while balancing hands-on design with delegation or supervision, including responsibility for reviewing and maintaining the quality of other designers’ work.
• Demonstrated experience presenting visual concepts and articulating design rationale to clients, creative leaders, or other senior stakeholders, including responding to feedback and advocating for design decisions.
• Experience mentoring or supervising designers through briefs, critiques, and actionable feedback, with demonstrated readiness to take on broader people and creative leadership responsibilities. 

Desired:

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience incorporating AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or other AI-assisted creative tools into design ideation, workflows, or production.
• Agency, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences experience, including exposure to delivering creative work for multiple stakeholders or brands.
• Experience building design systems for emerging, smaller, or niche brands, or extending established systems for large, multi-channel brands.
• Experience with UX/UI principles, digital production workflows, motion, animation, or other multidisciplinary design capabilities that extend core graphic design expertise.

Additional Information

The base salary for this position will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate’s work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

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Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

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