TELUS Digital
Senior Director, Design
$190K–$246K
Charlottesville, VA +1 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
Columbus, OH - Experience
- 10+ years in design leadership.
About the job
Leads design strategy and client outcomes across a portfolio of Fortune 500 accounts, guiding a global design organization and its business impact.
What you'll do
- Set the design vision and develop the organization’s future skills, practices, and quality standards.
- Lead design outcomes and executive client relationships across accounts; partner on positioning and selling design engagements.
- Grow and manage a team of over 100, while delivering portfolio revenue targets and overseeing resourcing, investment, and account health.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in design leadership, with significant client-facing experience in an agency, consultancy, or complex enterprise engagements.
- Proven record leading high-quality digital product design teams and developing senior designers and design leaders.
- Fluency across the product development lifecycle, from strategy and concepting through engineering handoff and launch.
- Experience managing design engagement scope, margin, resourcing, and stakeholder alignment.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience mentoring designers from underrepresented backgrounds.
- Experience leading distributed teams and navigating remote-first collaboration.
Pay
$190K – $246K USD base salary
AI focus
Develop a forward-looking design vision that anticipates how AI and emerging tools will reshape design work.
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