Omschrijving bedrijf

dotdotdash is an experience innovation agency leading brands into new spaces.

We thrive at the intersection of culture and technology, building digital products and experiences that push boundaries, humanize interactions, and immerse audiences in meaningful ways.

We combine boutique service and craft with the reach and resources of a global network.

We'd love to work with you to design what's next – crafting distinctive, connected and impactful customer experiences across the entire brand ecosystem.

Omschrijving functie/werkzaamheden

dotdotdash is a global experience innovation agency. We turn signals into systems, connecting emerging technology, brand expression, and experience design to build the next generation of products, platforms, and ecosystems. With studios in LAX, PDX, NYC, and AMS, we bring boutique culture and craft with the reach and resources of the Omnicom network.

Our work spans Business Acceleration, Brand Expression, Experience Innovation, and Product Development. We craft distinctive, connected, and impactful experiences that span the entire brand ecosystem, systems that think, learn, and feel more human with every interaction.

About the role

The Design Lead is responsible for driving design quality and execution across dotdotdash Europe’s most ambitious client work. This role focuses on crafting coherent, high-quality brand and experience outcomes, from concept through delivery, across digital products, platforms, and brand ecosystems.

The Design Lead works across brand design, design systems, interaction design, and art direction, ensuring that ideas are translated into clear, consistent, and scalable design solutions.

Working closely with Creative, Technology, and Delivery partners, the Design Lead contributes to the evolution of design systems, visual languages, and productized components. The role mentors designers on projects, sets a high bar for craft, and ensures design intent is carried through with precision, consistency, and care.

As Design Lead, you’ll work with the team to define and design our (AI) toolstack and play a critical role in the creation of next-generation agentic products, content pipelines, and productized accelerators.

The work

  • Sets a high bar for design craft and visual quality across digital products, platforms, and brand ecosystems.
  • Leads the execution and application of design systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, and clarity across touchpoints.
  • Translates strategy and creative direction into clear visual languages, interaction patterns, and design solutions.
  • Moves confidently between system-level structure and hands-on design and art direction.
  • Produces prototypes, concepts, and detailed designs that bring ideas to life and guide delivery.

The team

  • Mentors and supports designers on projects, strengthening craft, confidence, and execution quality.
  • Encourages a culture of feedback, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Contributes to shared design standards, tools, and ways of working.
  • Supports onboarding and day-to-day guidance of designers within pods or project teams.

The client

  • Acts as a design lead on client engagements, translating briefs into clear design direction and outputs.
  • Presents work and design rationale with confidence, aligning stakeholders around vision and execution.
  • Works closely with strategy, creative, and technology partners to ensure design intent is delivered accurately.
  • Builds trust through strong craft, reliability, and thoughtful problem-solving.

The business

  • Supports Directors and Principals in shaping productized design offerings and accelerators.
  • Delivers work efficiently, with awareness of scope, timelines, and quality expectations.
  • Continually develops craft, tools, and practices to strengthen the design discipline and agency output.

What we offer

  • A chance to redefine what design means in an age of intelligence, building ecosystems that think with us, not for us. You’ll work in an environment that rewards experimentation, values craft and is inventing new methods for co-creating with technology itself.
  • Shape the design vision for a new European hub.
  • Contribute to dotdotdash’s evolution from agency to platform-driven innovation company to define how we scale IP, products, and services.
  • Lead projects that blend technology, craft, creativity and business thinking into experiences that drive emotion.