Design Director at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

**If you apply to this position, a link to a portfolio of produced creative samples is required with your application**

Role Summary:

The Design Director leads, manages and directs the creative brand design team and is positioned as a core creative leader driving consistency of the brand and design excellence at all touchpoints, internally and externally, on behalf of Best Buy. Within this role the Design Director has responsibility to ensure touchpoints across all channels -including photography- are consistent with established brand standards and look, feel, and photography are consistent with brand look and feel. This leader will ensure expectations are met with teams, leadership and enterprise partners. Oversight responsibilities include ensuring the teams are creating and building to a consistent brand message delivered across multiple channels and campaigns, with a special focus on digital channels as Best Buy continues its rapid transformation into a “digital first” brand.

At Best Buy we create work environments where every employee feels like they truly belong and contribute to our shared purpose. We are one of the best companies for our customers and employees because we fully embrace people from all backgrounds and identities. Our customer base is diverse, and we are committed to ensuring that our workforce is reflective of the communities we serve.

At Best Buy, we are obsessed with building long term relationships with our customers. Every team member should feel empowered to deliver a world-class and unique experience based on what each customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Creative Leadership

• Inspires and motivates the design creative team -sweating the details and paying attention to craft- making the work better in ways small and large•Champions enterprise-wide message consistency


• Ensures brand identity and brand frameworks are reflected across external customer touch points


• Creates and ensures delivery of consistently branded design assets that support the strategic goals and brand of Best Buy


• Overall management of brand assets and associated creative outputs


• Understands, interprets, coaches and recommends creative execution specifics to ensure creative consistency


• Works with collaboration at the core from marketing to digital teams - to align, collaborate, distribute and amplify brand opportunities across channels and vehicles


• Consistently strives for and provides optimal brand results


• Manages designers, art directors and studio to ensure a consistent photographic approach


• Leads concept creation for multiple campaigns, which may include in-store communications, social content, packaging, signage and more


• Operates in an inspirational capacity to mentor, motivate, direct, assess and proactively manage team dynamics

• 6+ years of experience in a creative leadership role


• 10+ years of experience in a designer or design related role