Creative Design Lead

Responsibilities

• Shape marketing creative for DuckDuckGo's growing portfolio spanning Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions.
• Work on related projects using tools like Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Take full ownership of design work from concept through execution across multiple concurrent campaigns.
• Drive high-craft, on-brand creative for Duck.ai, Search/Browse, and Subscriptions with minimal oversight.
• Advise fellow designers on marketing and brand execution.
• Navigate cross-functional stakeholders during scoping and ideation.
• Evolve our brand language with fresh creative concepts.
• Help build reusable systems that make marketing production more efficient.
• Grow into a go-to advisor for brand and marketing design across the team.

Requirements

• 9+ years of hands-on marketing or advertising design experience.
• 2+ years at a recognisable consumer-facing tech brand (either working in house or agency side).
• Versatile designer with a portfolio demonstrating range, depth, strong execution, and a distinct creative point of view.
• Highly proficient in design fundamentals, including typography, colour, and composition.
• Strong working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Exceptional creativity, aesthetic judgment, and design intuition.
• Creative Direction experience - highly experienced in developing original ideas and leading the creative direction, conceptual, strategic execution of marketing campaigns.
• Comfortable driving projects end-to-end with minimal oversight, including scoping, stakeholder alignment, creative direction, and delivery.
• Impact-driven, using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.
• Strong at generating ideas, exploring multiple creative directions, and inspiring peers.
• Able to communicate ideas clearly through written project scopes that define the problem, user impact, and proposed path forward.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience advising or mentoring other designers.