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As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.\nAI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.\nAt OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do-powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.\nYour Impact\nAs Director, Design, you will lead and evolve the organization’s design function, delivering high-quality, client-centric creative experiences that strengthen the brand and support business and marketing objectives. Reporting to the VP, Creative & Brand, you will lead a multidisciplinary team while shaping the future of the design organization through talent development, creative innovation, operational excellence, and AI-enabled transformation.\nYou will:\nLead and inspire a multidisciplinary team of designers, fostering creativity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.\n\nTranslate brand and creative strategy into scalable, high-quality design solutions across digital, omnichannel, and marketing experiences.\n\nCoach and develop designers across all levels, establishing career pathways, development plans, and future leadership opportunities.\n\nShape the future design workforce by identifying capability gaps and developing skills across emerging disciplines such as creative strategy, content design, design specialization, and AI-enabled creative production.\n\nLead the adoption of AI-powered tools and workflows to improve creative productivity, scalability, automation, and effectiveness while maintaining brand and quality standards.\n\nOversee creative operations, including resource allocation, capacity planning, prioritization, workflow optimization, and project delivery.\n\nPartner with Marketing, Communications, Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, and other stakeholders to translate business priorities into effective creative strategies.\n\nServe as a strategic partner to the VP, Creative & Brand on workforce planning, organizational capability, technology adoption, and creative operations.\n\nChampion brand stewardship and governance through design systems, templates, component libraries, and scalable creative standards.\n\nDrive innovation and continuous improvement while ensuring the design organization remains agile and prepared for evolving business, technology, and marketing demands.\n\nWhat The Role Offers\nThe opportunity to shape the future of a global design organization and influence how creative work evolves.\n\nThe ability to build and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary design team and future creative leaders.\n\nAn opportunity to lead the adoption of AI and emerging technologies across creative workflows and production.\n\nThe opportunity to influence workforce strategy, career pathways, organizational capabilities, and the future skills of the design function.\n\nA highly strategic role partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams across Marketing and the broader organization.\n\nThe opportunity to balance creative excellence with operational efficiency, scalability, innovation, and measurable business impact.\n\nThe ability to modernize design practices, processes, tools, and technologies to meet the changing needs of modern marketing.\n\nWhat You Need to Succeed\n15+ years of progressive experience in design, creative services, brand marketing, or a related field, including 10+ years leading creative teams.\n\nProven experience leading diverse, multidisciplinary teams and developing talent across varying levels of experience and specialization.\n\nA strong track record of building high-performing teams, developing future leaders, and evolving organizational capabilities.\n\nExperience leading teams through change, transformation, or operating model evolution within a corporate marketing, agency, or internal creative environment.\n\nStrong creative judgment and expertise in design principles, visual communication, storytelling, brand systems, and creative strategy.\n\nDemonstrated experience with creative operations, including workflow management, resource planning, capacity management, and process optimization.\n\nStrong strategic thinking, business acumen, workforce planning, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.\n\nExperience implementing AI-powered creative tools, workflow optimization, automation, or creative enablement technologies.\n\nAdvanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and familiarity with modern design, collaboration, project management, and resource planning platforms.\n\nStrong understanding of generative AI, prompt design, automation, and emerging creative technologies.\n\nExceptional communication, presentation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.\n\nA passion for developing people, embracing innovation, and preparing design organizations for the future.\n\nOpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.\nIf you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at . Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.\nCompensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.\nSalary Range: $164,800 - $247,200; Depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.\nCalifornia Residents: The pay range above is a reasonable estimate of salary based on pay scale, candidate experience, skills, and education. 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