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Freelance Design Director

Complex· Brand Partnerships
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Los Angeles$125k - $138kFreelancePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Freelance Design Director for Complex Brand Partnerships, responsible for leading and executing multidisciplinary design across digital, print, experiential, and merchandise, with a focus on art direction, social/display design, and experiential concepting.

Responsibilities

  • Mentor and Lead: Concept and pitch work to internal and external teams. Work with designers bringing concepts and campaign objectives to life
  • Collaborate: Working with design leaders, account managers, experiential and product to create a visual roadmap for a variety of deliverables
  • Executing projects: Taking projects from concept to launch, creating within existing workflow systems while marrying brand guidelines and the Complex visual ID
  • Presenting: You’ll pitch and sell your work in to senior leadership and brand clients as necessary
  • Display and Social Design: Ability to translate larger campaign initiatives and creative into display and social deliverables
  • Experiential and Event Design: Work with design leadership on conceptualizing and executing physical brand experiences—from bespoke pop-up activations to large-scale experiences like ComplexCon
  • Apparel: Design of limited-edition merch drops, and collabs bringing fashion sensibility to product storytelling
  • Researching: Conducting research to identify problems and validate designs
  • Expert in latest Mac software: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Google Slides, Figma, ReadyMag, SketchUp or other experiential 3D render software
  • Working knowledge of current AI render platforms

Qualifications

  • Minimum 6-8 years of graphic design experience and art direction experience within the last 3-4 years at an agency, culturally-adjacent media publisher, or in-house brand
  • Passion for forward-thinking design across digital, print, experiential, and product
  • Voracious consumer of pop culture and working knowledge of trends in music, events, streetwear, and fashion at large
  • Well-organized, with strict attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem solving
  • Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, interpersonal
  • Able to support design decisions using industry insight, best practices, and tried and true execution approaches
  • Obsess about the details and push the creative until its reached the best execution
  • Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast-paced, high growth, entrepreneurial environment
  • Must have strong time management skills and the ability to pivot from project to project juggling multiple at a time
  • Passion for materials within tangible design for apparel, packaging, print, and experiential builds

Skills

Required:Art DirectionConcepting / Ideation2D CompositingAdobe Creative Suite
Nice to have:3D Rendering (SketchUp/Other)

Benefits

  • The Pay Range listed: $125,000 - $138,000 per year (salary and commission)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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