Head of Design
Leads Dataiku’s global Design organization, evolving the enterprise AI company’s brand across marketing, events, digital, and corporate experiences. The role requires extensive professional design experience, creative team leadership, strong corporate brand expertise, and East Coast U.S. residency.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead Dataiku’s global Design team and shape how the brand is expressed across campaigns, events, digital experiences, stories, presentations, product, and other touchpoints.
- Apply and evolve the global brand and maintain design systems across marketing and corporate assets.
- Ensure consistency and raise the quality of campaigns, web, social media, customer communications, presentations, and physical experiences.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of at least five designers.
- Foster collaboration, creativity, curiosity, continuous learning, and career development.
- Improve creative workflows and project intake while balancing priorities across a global business.
- Partner with Brand, Communications, Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Events, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and executive stakeholders.
- Provide creative direction for brand campaigns, product launches, advertising, paid social, account-based marketing, out-of-home campaigns, websites, customer marketing, executive presentations, sales enablement, research reports, ebooks, and social media.
- Build memorable experiences for Dataiku Succeed, industry conferences, sponsorships, hospitality experiences, keynotes, internal events, and customer and partner events.
- Expand brand experiences through merchandise, company stores, environmental branding, and physical and digital creative standards.
- Help expand video and motion capabilities across customer stories, testimonials, executive thought leadership, product launches, social video, motion graphics, and event content.
- Champion thoughtful adoption of AI-powered creative tools and evaluate emerging technologies.
- Manage creative agencies, production partners, and freelance relationships, determining when to use internal or external resources.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional design experience.
- 3–5+ years leading and managing creative teams.
- Experience managing a team of at least five designers.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional corporate brand work.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary design projects.
- Expertise across digital, web, campaigns, events, presentations, and brand systems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Marketing and the broader business.
- Must be based on the East Coast of the United States.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in B2B enterprise software or technology.
- Experience supporting high-growth organizations.
- Experience partnering with Growth Marketing teams.
- Experience managing agencies and freelance partners.
- Interest in AI-powered creative tools and workflows.
- Familiarity with motion design and video production workflows.
Compensation
- Compensation is determined during the interview process based on factors including geographic location, internal equity, education, skills, experience, and training.
Skills
Brand Design, Design Systems, Digital Design, Web Design, Campaign Design, Motion Design, Video Production, Creative Direction, Ai Creative Tools, Project Intake, Agency Management
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