Senior Manager, Creative Direction

Job Description:

Essential Job Functions

• Lead creative direction for priority workstreams across campaigns, events, environments, digital experiences, presentations, social, executive communications, and special projects.
• Translate the Executive Creative Director’s vision into actionable creative routes, including concepts, moodboards, storyframes, motion studies, experience ideas, and design systems.
• Elevate brand experience across physical and digital touchpoints, ensuring work is cohesive, modern, brand-right, and aligned to business and audience needs.
• Drive motion and visual storytelling quality, including typography-in-motion, pacing, transitions, narrative flow, video graphics, event screens, and presentation storytelling.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate concepting and exploration, generating visual directions, rapid iterations, imagery studies, and early prototypes while applying responsible AI guardrails.
• Build scalable creative systems and toolkits such as campaign kits, event packages, social templates, presentation frameworks, motion libraries, guidelines, and repeatable design patterns.
• Run creative reviews and quality gates, providing clear feedback that improves craft, reduces rework, and keeps work moving toward aligned decisions.
• Coach and enable designers and partners, sharing methods, examples, templates, and playbooks that raise team capability in brand experience, motion, AI workflows, and systems thinking.
• Manage vendors, freelancers, or agency partners as needed, maintaining creative consistency, quality, and delivery readiness.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Design, Motion Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Experience Design, Film/Animation, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in brand, visual, motion, or experience design across digital and physical applications.
• 2+ years in a lead, manager, player/coach, or creative direction capacity.
• Portfolio demonstrating high-craft creative direction, systems thinking, motion/storytelling capability, and concept-to-execution leadership.
• Experience translating brand strategy and executive creative direction into cohesive creative outputs, systems, and toolkits.
• Demonstrated use of generative AI or modern creative workflows for concepting, visual exploration, rapid iteration, or scalable system development.
• Strong communication, critique, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills in fast-paced, matrixed environments.

Other Qualifications

• Experience building scalable brand systems, templates, motion libraries, campaign kits, event packages, or reusable creative toolkits.
• Strong understanding of brand governance and quality standards across web, social, campaigns, events, executive communications, and digital experiences.
• Environmental or experiential design experience, including events, signage, spatial graphics, wayfinding, or activations.
• Strong motion design, visual storytelling, and executive narrative capability.
• Working knowledge of accessibility considerations for motion and content, including readability, captions/subtitles, reduced-motion awareness, and clarity across formats.
• Experience with creative automation, versioning, localization, modular systems, or scaled production workflows.
• Experience directing external partners while maintaining craft quality and creative alignment.
• Experience operating in a global matrix or solid-line/dotted-line collaboration model.

 

Compensation at DXC is influenced by an array of factors, including but not limited to the experience, job-related knowledge, skills, competencies, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. A reasonable estimate of the current compensation range for this position is $119,900 - $222,700.

Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program.  DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

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