Lead Brand Designer
Leads ClickUp’s visual brand and evolves a scalable design system that enables designers, non-designers, agencies, and AI tools to create cohesive, high-quality assets. The role requires 8+ years of brand or visual design experience, strong systematic thinking, and hands-on AI design tooling expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and evolve the brand design system, including tokens, components, patterns, and guidelines.
- Review and approve brand-facing creative produced by AI tools, vibe-coded outputs, and external agencies.
- Create documentation, templates, component libraries, and automation-friendly asset packages that enable others to produce on-brand work.
- Design and ship high-volume web assets, including landing pages, campaign pages, and feature announcements.
- Contribute to high-impact brand moments such as launches and keynotes.
- Audit and rebuild the brand design system from incomplete foundations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of brand or visual design experience, including significant experience owning or leading a design system.
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, color, motion, and systematic thinking.
- Current use of AI design tools such as Midjourney, Firefly, Claude Design, or Figma AI.
- Experience with AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code, plus light familiarity with GitHub.
- Experience building or adapting design systems to enable high-quality AI-generated outputs at scale.
- Experience building design systems used at scale, including templates, component libraries, and constraints for non-designers and AI tools.
- Experience quality-assuring and refining AI-generated design outputs.
- Ability to work autonomously as the sole designer on a team.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $110,000–$169,000.
Skills
Brand Design, Visual Design, Design Systems, Typography, Layout Design, Color Theory, Motion Design, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Claude Design, Figma Ai, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub
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