About Otherlife 🌖💸
Otherlife by MoonPay is a digital creative agency designing unconventional, end-to-end solutions in Web3 strategy, design, branding, and development for the world’s leading companies, including Mastercard, Arsenal Club, Coinbase, OpenSea, and Shopify.
Our team of passionate creators is committed to building innovative solutions at the intersection of creativity and technology. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals who share our vision.
🌔 About the Opportunity
The Design Director is responsible for leading and elevating the multidisciplinary design team at Otherlife. Reporting to the Creative Director, this role acts as the bridge between creative leadership and hands-on design execution, ensuring all design output aligns with the agency’s creative vision, quality standards, and client objectives.
The Design Director will oversee a talented group of senior designers, graphic designers, motion designers, illustrators, 3D designers, brand designers, and web designers. They will be accountable for maintaining design excellence across all client projects, fostering professional growth within the team, and optimizing creative processes to deliver high-quality, innovative work on time and on brand.
Importantly, this is not a purely managerial role. The Design Director will also lead high-profile projects directly, contributing their own creative ideas, hands-on design work, and production expertise. They will be deeply involved in concepting, prototyping, and execution, setting the standard for design quality through both leadership and personal contribution.
This is a critical role that ensures Otherlife’s creative direction is executed with precision and consistency, supporting both the agency’s creative ambitions and its operational success.
This role offers a unique opportunity to lead one of the most talented design teams in the digital and Web3 space. The Design Director at Otherlife will play a pivotal part in shaping the agency’s creative output, fostering design excellence, and helping define the future of digital design for some of the world’s most innovative brands.
🚀 What you will do
· Lead, manage, and inspire the design team across multiple disciplines, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and accountability.
· Serve as the primary conduit between the Creative Director and the design team, translating creative direction into actionable design outcomes.
· Oversee all stages of the design process—from concept to delivery—ensuring creative quality, consistency, and adherence to brand and project standards.
· Take direct ownership of high-profile client projects, leading by example through hands-on design work, creative direction, and production execution.
· Contribute original ideas and creative problem-solving to elevate client work and push the boundaries of digital and brand design.
· Collaborate with the Creative Director to define and uphold the agency’s design standards and visual identity across all client and internal projects.
· Mentor and develop designers, providing feedback, guidance, and training to enhance skills, productivity, and career growth.
· Conduct quarterly performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and clear development goals for each team member.
· Partner with project managers, strategists, and developers to ensure efficient workflows and successful project delivery.
· Review and refine design deliverables, ensuring they meet both client objectives and internal standards of excellence.
· Support designers in preparing and refining client presentations, and present creative work directly to clients when required.
· Stay ahead of design trends, emerging tools, and technologies, ensuring Otherlife continues to innovate at the cutting edge of digital design and Web3 experiences.
· Collaborate with leadership to identify opportunities for process improvement, team development, and cross-disciplinary integration.
🧑🚀 About You
· Minimum of 3 years in a senior design leadership role, such as Design Director, Associate Design Director, or Senior Designer with management responsibilities, ideally within a creative or digital agency.
· Proven ability to lead and inspire multidisciplinary design teams, balancing creative excellence with operational efficiency.
· Strong understanding of branding, digital design, UX/UI, motion design, 3D, and visual storytelling.
· Demonstrated experience maintaining design consistency and quality across complex projects and large client portfolios.
· Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate creative rationale and design decisions clearly to both internal teams and clients.
· Expertise in design systems, scalable visual frameworks, and component-based design.
· Strong organizational and project management abilities with a meticulous attention to detail.
· Proficiency in industry-standard design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.) and familiarity with interactive technologies such as WebGL, GSAP, or Three.js.
· Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Graphic Design, Digital Media, or a related field.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience:
· Working in Web3, blockchain, or emerging technology environments.
· Motion design, tools, and workflows (After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender).
· Mentoring designers in AI-driven design tools or creative automation.
· Familiarity with agile workflows and cross-functional collaboration between design, engineering, and strategy.
· Managing large-scale brand or product design systems.
· Team hiring and onboarding processes.
