Design Director

About Darkroom

Darkroom is the leading next-generation growth marketing firm engineering the brands of tomorrow. Founded in 2017, we set out to redefine what a modern agency could be, by replacing the inertia of legacy advertising behemoths with a model built for speed, intelligence, and measurable impact.

At our core, Darkroom is a human services company powered by Shadow, a universal AI commerce layer that integrates executive-level strategy with proprietary agentic technology. This fusion enables our teams to deliver outsized returns by enhancing creative output, operational efficiency, and revenue generation across every stage of the customer journey.

Our track record speaks for itself: billions in attributable revenue driven across e-commerce marketplaces, media networks, DTC ecosystems, and social commerce platforms. Every engagement feeds into our proprietary data infrastructure, enabling a continuous feedback loop that accelerates growth, improves margins, and compounds results across our client portfolio.

What began as a boutique design studio has evolved into one of the fastest-growing private companies in America (Inc. 5000) and among the most effective performance media agencies of the 2020s (Varos). Our founders were recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 for advancing the intersection of technology, marketing, and advertising, cementing Darkroom’s role as a defining player in the future of media innovation.

About the role

We are hiring a Design Director - a visionary leader with a strong design background who thrives in driving high-quality design execution across various platforms as well as managing creative talent. You’ll combine strategic oversight with hands-on involvement, ensuring that every design project meets the highest standards of excellence.

This role requires deep experience in branded UI/UX design. You’re a senior-level design lead that can independently own multiple web design engagements simultaneously. Navigating client feedback and pushback is an everyday muscle you successfully work with. You can show deep experience in being able to thread the needle between game-changing UI, conversion-oriented UX, and technical feasibility, all on a tight timeline. Clients are consistently impressed by your knowledge of e-commerce heuristics and how you combine that with unique and branded design. You love working with developers to understand how to make your ideas come to life and sell clients on design solutions and tradeoffs they have to make to complete engagements on-time.

You pride yourself on being able to effortlessly spin up a new brand design system for a client that feels differentiated, elevated, and informed by your strategic market analysis. You have consistently merged business thinking with exceptional visual craft into scalable brand identities that work across paid media, retention, web, social, and packaging.