Associate Experience Design Director

Associate Build Director

We're looking for an Associate Build Director to lead UI development across complex, modular digital ecosystems. This is a hands-on leadership role for a professional who develops with deep expertise in Figma. The role requires strong experience working within established design systems. It also demands a strong focus on detail, consistency, and performance.

You'll operate as a player-coach, contributing directly to the work while leading UI design across defined workstreams. You'll partner closely with Design and Experience leads as well as cross-functional teams to translate strategy and data into scalable, high-performing design solutions.

You'll work within an established design system, helping evolve it through thoughtful, scalable decisions around component usage, extension, and governance-balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you're contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics, including any reasonable accommodations.

Responsibilities

Lead UI Design Across Workstreams

Lead UI design for assigned workstreams, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment to broader creative and experience direction

Deliver high-quality, production-ready design in Figma, including layouts, components, and prototypes

Translate strategy, user needs, and business goals into intuitive, scalable UI solutions

Set and uphold standards for craft, accessibility, and usability across all outputs

Design Systems Contribution & Governance

Work within an established design system, making informed decisions on when to extend existing components vs introduce new patterns

Create, extend, and refine UI components, patterns, and documentation to support evolving product and marketing needs

Define and document component behavior, usage guidelines, and edge cases to ensure consistency across experiences

Contribute to system governance by reinforcing standards, scalability, and reuse across workstreams

Partner closely with Engineering and Content Strategy to ensure components are implemented accurately and function effectively

Data-Informed & Goal-Focused Build

Apply insights from analytics, testing, and user behavior to inform design decisions and iteration

Design with performance in mind, balancing brand expression with usability, clarity, and conversion goals

Collaborate with Strategy and Analytics teams to align design outputs to benchmarks and optimization efforts

Support personalization strategies through modular, flexible UI systems that enable dynamic content

Full Funnel & Lifecycle Awareness

Design with an understanding of the broader customer journey across owned channels

Ensure UI systems and patterns support downstream experiences such as CRM, email, and account-based interactions

Support lifecycle and CRM teams by ensuring UI enables consistent and flexible cross-channel experiences

Collaboration & Communication

Collaborate closely with Creative leads, Experience Design, Content, Strategy, Product, and Engineering teams

Partner with Experience Design to translate journeys, IA, and interaction models into scalable UI systems and patterns

Present work clearly and confidently, articulating rationale and design decisions to internal teams and clients

Provide guidance and feedback to designers, helping elevate craft and consistency across the team

Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team environment

Qualifications

8-10 years of experience in visual design, UI design, or digital product design within an agency or similar environment

Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality UI craft and scalable design across complex digital ecosystems

Deep expertise in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, prototyping, and system management

Proven experience working within and evolving established design systems, with a strong point of view on component reuse, extension, and governance

Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and modern UI guidelines

Experience designing within component-based, modular systems across large-scale platforms

Ability to apply data, insights, and performance considerations to design decisions

Experience designing across connected digital ecosystems, with awareness of lifecycle and CRM touchpoints

Proven ability to lead design across workstreams, balancing hands-on execution with direction and oversight

Strong communication and presentation skills with internal teams and client collaborators

Experience collaborating within large, cross-functional organizations and multi-layered team structures

Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery environments

Familiarity with personalization strategies and lifecycle design is a plus

Automotive experience is a plus

You'll Thrive Here If You:

Care deeply about craft and consistency, especially within large, complex systems

Know when to reuse, extend, or challenge existing patterns-and can justify those decisions

Are comfortable working within constraints and using them to drive better, more scalable design

Enjoy collaborating across fields, especially with Engineering and Content partners

Bring a point of view, but know how to operate effectively within a larger leadership structure

Take pride in creating design that not only looks great, but performs and scales

Please include resume with portfolio link

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more

Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility

Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption

Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance

Tuition Assistance

Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more

Matching Gifts programs

Flexible working arrangements

'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)

Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $106,780.00 - $146,100.00 Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 5/17/26.