Design Director
Accenture
Design Director
Job Description
Design Director
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence.
Within Song’s Design Experience practice, our living culture and borderless playground provide us with space to thrive, following simple core values that inform everything we do. Be adventurous. Bring a vision. Make an impact. Rely on empathy. Nurture collaboration. Stay transparent. Be bold and generous in all you do.
Service and Interaction Design are at the heart of our design process. Our designers are a diverse team of strategic, empathetic thinkers and deep interaction specialists who envision and craft experiences — from service ecosystems to digital products.
As a Design Director, you’ll lead integrated design practices and delivery across one or more accounts. You’ll oversee multidisciplinary design teams to create thoughtful, effective, and emotionally resonant solutions for our clients. You'll also manage Design Leads, collaborate with stakeholders, and shape strategic direction alongside program leadership.
We’re looking for a senior design leader who, in addition to expertise in service and interaction design, brings a passion for visual design, storytelling, and brand expression — someone who can elevate the craft, bring bold creative energy, and guide teams in creating work that is both strategically sound and aesthetically exceptional.
This is your opportunity to evolve integrated design as both a discipline and a practice on a global scale.
You are…
- A strategic systems thinker with deep experience in service and interaction design — able to map and design at scale across user journeys, touchpoints, and ecosystems.
- A visual and verbal storyteller, delivering insights and ideas that generate empathy, excitement, and momentum for clients and teams.
- Passionate about designing with intent and aesthetic clarity — bringing visual design thinking and brand awareness into multi-layered experiences.
- Naturally collaborative, engaging deeply with stakeholders, clients, and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, fast-moving programs, and a fluid organizational structure.
Role Description
A professional in this position, at this level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:
- Drive design quality, practice, and offerings that meet business and user goals as well as create new offerings.
- Lead design points of view, proposal creation, and relationship management across one to two key clients.
- Deeply understand the market and can speak to our clients and the industry about our content, craft, and trends.
- Own craft and capability output across key projects, ensuring each project deliverable is of the highest quality.
- Assess performance and provide career guidance and performance decisions for members of the studio Design team.
- Provide directional oversight of individual project team's work and assume overall accountability for it.
- Develop pitch decks and project approaches that lead to exciting, inspiring, and well-shaped work for our Design team elevating storytelling.
- Cultivate relationships with new and existing clients.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
These are the minimum requirements for an aspirant to be considered for the position applying to:
- 10+ years’ experience of {Interaction/Product Design and/or Service} Design across varied users, business problems, and devices
- 5+ years leadership/management experience; demonstrated experience leading multiple cross-discipline teams.
- 5+ year of experience planning, designing, facilitating, and synthesizing workshops
- 5+ years' experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes.
- English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related design field (Service Design, Interaction/Product Design, Visual Design, HCI, etc.).
- Strong working knowledge of design tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, etc.
- Experience with brand design principles, visual systems, and design for emotion and storytelling.
- Ability to mentor across disciplines and elevate the creative expression of service and product design work.
- Ability to learn new software quickly; experience with Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Axure, Confluence, or JIRA is a plus.
- Knowledge of and experience with applying user-centered design processes.
- Understanding of areas of specialization within the greater design landscape, including but not limited to Design Research, and Content Design.
- Ability to create experience maps, user journeys and service blueprints, interaction models, flows, and wireframes.
- Familiarity with rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototypes.
- Comfortable with a fast-paced, multidisciplinary consulting environment.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired in British Columbia as set forth below.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia $119,700 to $213,500
Locations
Life at Accenture
Work where you're inspired to explore your passions and where your talents are nurtured and cultivated. Innovate with leading-edge technologies on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.
Training and Development
Take time away to learn and learn all the time in our regional learning hubs, connected classrooms, online courses and learning boards.
Work Environment
Be your best every day in a work environment that helps drive innovation in everything you do.
Learn more about Accenture
Our more than 742,000 people in more than 120 countries, combine unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.
Our Expertise
Meet Our People
From entry-level to leadership, across all business and industry segments, get to know our people harnessing technology to make a difference, every day.
Stay connected
Join Our Team
Search open positions that match your skills and interest. We look for passionate, curious, creative and solution-driven team players.
Keep Up to Date
Stay ahead with careers tips, insider perspectives, and industry-leading insights you can put to use today–all from the people who work here.
Job Alert Emails
Personalize your subscription to receive job alerts, latest news and insider tips tailored to your preferences. See what exciting and rewarding opportunities await.