As our Associate Director, Experience Design , you will… Merge Storytelling and Technology MERGE promotes health, wealth and happiness in the world by merging storytelling with technology and offers marketing and technology clients full-service capabilities including strategy, creative communications, experience engineering, media, digital platform development and more. MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, LG, Fidelity, Eaton Vance, BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Takeda, Boston Scientific, Advocate Aurora Health, Brigham Health, Indiana University Health and Marco's Pizza. With 550 employees across offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, New York City, Orange County and Toronto. MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers. Promote Health, Wealth & Happiness We are committed to promoting health, wealth and happiness in the world by partnering with purpose-driven clients in purpose-driven industries such as healthcare, financial services and consumer products. Our deep vertical expertise and category insights stem from decade-long partnerships with our top clients. Emerge to the Top of Your Career At MERGE, we strive to create a superior work experience where talented and ambitious people grow. An experience that encourages people to think higher and feel deeper. An experience where people engage minds and hearts to do the best work of their careers. We’re looking for a highly-motivated, super-skilled, ACD-level Experience Designer (ACD, XD) with a strong track record of making things that smart, busy people like to use - and that improve their lives. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, lead projects of scale and collaborate with a team of seasoned pros, please read on. Be Accountable and Responsible Lead experience design concepting and execution with a strong focus on complex dot-com, digital product and enterprise application design. Help oversee and grow a Boston-based team currently consisting of two mid-level/junior experience designers, 1-2 experience design interns and two visual designers. Work with User Experience design and User Experience Strategy practice leads to define/refine world-class collaborative design, design sprint, design workshop and user research methods. These are the qualifications we’re looking for Minimum 5-7 years experience making super-easy to use, unique and high-performing interfaces and digital experiences. Master of Adobe Creative Suite, with advanced skills in Sketch, InVision and/or Figma. A knack for collaborating with and inspiring visual design and development teams. A passion for understanding, evolving and devising best practices and thinking in unexpected, orthogonal ways. 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