lead designer vs sr. designer
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- Audria
whats the difference?
are they the same thing?
- dbloc0
same shit different name.
- TresLeches0
head designer
- jon_d0
lead designer can lead a team consisting of senior designer and a junior designer.
senior designer means you are old, not necessarily that you can lead.
- CyBrainX0
lead designer is a title someone recently made up for no particular reason.
- jon_d0
it does seem redundant but in an organization with many people I guess it works.
- jon_d0
creative director
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2 art directors
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3 lead designers
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6 senior designers
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12 junior designers
- dbloc0
senior bitch.
- CyBrainX0
I wish I worked on a team with 12 junior designers. Designer is a much more common title/role. So is Sr. Art Director.
- tOki0
My team is relatively small (3 other designers plus a copywriter), so my title doesn't mean much - I'm the CD, the AD, the lead designer..
When I'm not designing, I'm art directing, when I'm not doing either of those I'm working at a concept and strategy level. Such a lovely juggling game lol
I think as a team grows though, you encounter much more granular shifts in experience/skill level as you go up the chain - so there is a need for these various titles. In a smaller team however, a single person inevitably ends up doing those multiple roles.
- tOki0
Also I think depending on the company, the lead designer is essentially considered the single best in the organisation, meaning certain projects will go their way, as their time/talent is more finitie than the rest of the team.
So you can only really have 1 lead, and then a heap of seniors etc underneath.
- cannonball19780
Positon vs. Rank. One can be the other.
- Nathan_Adams0
I'd have thought lead designer is more to do with a specific project. Whoever gets handed the job to manage is the lead designer for that job, regardless of their title within the studio.
- Audria0
I was just asking because Im the lead designer at the place I work. Although the company just posted for a sr. designer without telling me.
There is some drama about having one of the freelancers take that position, but only if it were elevated to an art director title.
Which is unfair towards me.... But I just wanted to know the difference. So Thanks!
- nb0
Assistant to the regional manager.
- honest0
This all boils down to how much of a dick you are. When you start off as a junior, you're young, naive and eager so you're about a 7". Put on a few years and some big jobs and you get to be a 10". Art directors are usually bigger dicks and so are about 15" to 20", unsightly, unnatural and pretty impractical. I never understood the UK ranking of junior, middleweight, senior / heavyweight.
- orrinward0
The way I see it:
+ Senior Designer requires experience
+ Lead Designer requires leadership ability.I'm 23 and my official role is 'Lead Designer', albeit in a very small company.
I'm far from senior as I only have 2 and a half year in industry, but in that time I have led multiple projects and in my current job I'm the guy that gives the final yes/no, as well as producing most of the design work.
I don't feel like an arse calling myself lead designer, as I lead the design of our product.
I consider myself 'lead' simply because there is noone above me, but occasionally I have people working for me.