Design Lead

Please note: This a hybrid role located in Dallas, TX. You will have an opportunity to collaborate in-person three days a week at our Dallas office while maintaining flexibility for remote work.

GolinDallas is looking for aDesign Leadto be part of building something new and you'll shape its next phase. In this role, you'll be the handson own projects end-to-end, from ideation to polished decks.

Golin has been on a winning streak of recognition: PRWeek's Best Place to Work, Provoke Media's Global Agency of the Year, PRWeek's Large Agency of the year and winning two Grand Prix at Cannes.

Riding the wave of recognition and award-winning work, the Design Lead has an incredible opportunity totoggle between earned media, social, broadcast, and translate strategic insights into visual stories that help promote and protect the brand in Dallas and keep Golin on top.

It's an exciting time for the agency to continue to deliver impactful work that builds brands and reputations, and we know other brands canbenefit from the award-winning work we create.

Our ideal candidate is experienced, self-managed, collaborative across disciplines, and highly skilled in creating clean, on-brand decks in PowerPoint and Google Slides, especially under tight deadlines.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end creation of full-bleed, minimal-copy decks in PowerPoint and Google Slides-pitching earned-media, social-led, and broadcast campaigns for clients and new business.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams (art directors, writers, designers), driving insight, storytelling, and polish while acting as the senior design voice.
• Self-manage multiple briefs-balancing rapid-turn real-time social activations, strategic pitch decks, and proactive passion projects-so every deliverable lands on time and on point.
• Spot cultural and social trends and weave them into design solutions that break through, setting the bar for craft and ongoing innovation.
• Handle light animation and video-editing tasks (e.g., CapCut, basic After Effects), supporting in-house production needs with efficiency and flair.

What you have:

• 8-10 years of agency design leadership, with a portfolio showcasing social-led, earned-media, and broadcast work that drove headlines or accolades.
• Deckcraft mastery-full-bleed visuals, concise copy, and storytelling that makes complex ideas feel effortless.
• Exceptional self-management: you juggle stakeholder inputs, champion a clear creative POV, and keep collaboration friction-free.
• A collaborator's spirit and "adult-in-the-room" presence-able to mentor teammates, push back constructively, and align cross-functional partners.
• Deep real-time social fluency and cultural trend-spotting; data-curious enough to speak ROI when it matters.
• Basic animation/motion-graphics and video-editing proficiency to tackle light production requests.

About Golin:

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps company create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin's 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs.

Every agency is talking about AI. At Golin, we are using AI to rewrite the rules of PR. We're even promising to become the first fully AI-integrated agency by 2026. We are committed to upskilling our workforce, democratizing access to tools, and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients.

We're especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies.

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.

Please note: This is a hybrid role located in Dallas, TX. You will have an opportunity to collaborate in-person two to three days a week at our Dallas office while maintaining flexibility for remote work.

Salary range: $120,000 - $219,000.

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.