Creative Design Lead
Leads end-to-end marketing campaign design for DuckDuckGo’s consumer products, developing original concepts, directing creative execution, and advising designers. Requires 9+ years of consumer-facing marketing or advertising design experience, strong craft, and proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Shape marketing creative for DuckDuckGo’s portfolio, including Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions.
- Take ownership of design work from concept through execution across multiple concurrent campaigns.
- Drive high-craft, on-brand creative with minimal oversight.
- Advise fellow designers on marketing and brand execution.
- Navigate cross-functional stakeholders during scoping and ideation.
- Evolve the brand language through fresh creative concepts.
- Build reusable systems that make marketing production more efficient.
- Generate ideas and lead creative direction across conceptual and strategic execution for marketing campaigns.
- Drive projects end-to-end, including scoping, stakeholder alignment, creative direction, and delivery.
- Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.
- Communicate ideas clearly through written project scopes defining the problem, user impact, and proposed path forward.
Requirements
- 9+ years of hands-on marketing or advertising design experience at a recognizable consumer-facing brand, either in-house or agency-side.
- Portfolio demonstrating range, depth, strong execution, and a distinct creative point of view.
- Strong design fundamentals, including typography, color, and composition.
- High proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Exceptional creativity, aesthetic judgment, and design intuition.
- Strengths in generating ideas, exploring multiple creative directions, and inspiring peers.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience advising or mentoring other designers.
Compensation and Benefits
- $200,267 USD annually.
- Stock options.
- Team member support includes paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.
- Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
Skills
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Typography, Color Theory, Composition, Creative Direction, Marketing Campaigns, Advertising Design, Brand Design, Project Scoping
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