• Ensure design quality and consistency • Help uphold Viget’s design standards across client engagements staffed with contract designers. • Step in thoughtfully when issues arise by clarifying expectations, mediating concerns, and helping all parties move forward. • Review design work and provide feedback when alignment is needed. • Act as a thought partner to Client Strategy on design quality, risks, and opportunities within active accounts. • Support contractors’ success • Be involved in onboarding new contract designers, providing context, expectations, and guidance so they can contribute effectively from the start. • Build relationships with contractors that go beyond logistics. Understand what motivates them, where they’re growing, and what kinds of work excite them. • Offer occasional coaching, feedback, or collaboration when requested or when client feedback calls for it. • Help create a strong sense of connection to Viget, even for contractors who work with us intermittently. • Support sourcing and evaluation • Partner closely with our Director of Talent Strategy on contractor sourcing, evaluation, and long-term network planning. • Review portfolios and backgrounds; participate in interviews as needed. • Help match designers to opportunities based on skills, experience, and client context. • Partner with Client Strategy and Business Development • Collaborate with Client Strategy to support account health and growth. • Advise on design staffing approaches during sales conversations and early engagements. • Develop an understanding of client design expectations, maturity, and ways of working to inform guidance and contractor support. • Build professional, trusted relationships with client-side design leaders, without owning the account relationship. • Collaborate internally • Work closely with Client Strategy, Talent Strategy, and design leadership to strengthen how Viget supports, delivers, and evolves contract-based design work. • Contribute to improving systems, processes, and best practices in this growing area of the business. • Navigate the realities of a distributed role • This role is primarily relationship-based with independent contractors rather than full-time Viget staff. • You’ll need to be proactive about connection, communication, and visibility to avoid isolation and to build influence without formal authority.