While Associate Creative Director at JWT/Brouillard, Douglas was responsible for founding and co-directing the company's Interactive division. In 2011 Douglas founded The Davis Group LLC and continues to offer strategic solutions to client branding, digital and design problems.

Douglas serves on the advisory board for New York City's High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media (IAM). He is the author of Creative Strategy and the Business of Design.

He has been an Adjunct Professor in the Integrated Marketing Department at New York University and is currently Associate Professor of Advertising and Graphic Design within the City University of New York. He is a HOW Design university course contributor and has been a guest speaker in BIC’s @BIC lecture series.