# Creative Design Lead

**Company:** [DuckDuckGo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duckduckgo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $200k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Typography, color theory, design fundamentals, creative direction, marketing design, brand design, campaign conceptualization, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Creative Design Lead responsible for owning end-to-end marketing campaigns for Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions. Requires 9+ years marketing/advertising design experience including 2+ years at a consumer tech brand, strong portfolio, and creative direction skills.

## Job Description

## 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.

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