Associate Creative Director, Design

About the role

We're looking for a highly skilled, senior-level brand designer to join our Brand & Creative Studio as an Associate Creative Director.

What You’ll Do

• Create elevated, strategically grounded design across branding, campaigns, digital, social, presentations, content systems, and brand experiences.
• Translate brand strategy into distinctive visual ideas, scalable systems, and polished creative executions.
• Work as a senior hands-on designer across high-priority initiatives, moving between concept development, art direction, layout, typography, image-making, and final production.
• Partner with creative directors, writers, strategists, marketers, and product teams to develop work that is both brand-building and business-relevant.
• Help raise the quality bar across the studio through strong craft, thoughtful critique, and sharp creative judgment.
• Use AI tools as part of the creative process — from exploration and ideation to image generation, editing, prototyping, production support, and workflow acceleration.
• Bring a high level of visual taste to photography, illustration, motion, UI-inspired design, and campaign systems.
• Stay close to emerging tools, design trends, platform behaviors, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

What You’ll Bring

• A portfolio that shows exceptional design craft, strong conceptual thinking, and work for prominent global brands or high-visibility clients.
• Experience across brand identity, digital design, campaign systems, social, and integrated creative.
• Strong art direction instincts, especially around photography, composition, typography, visual systems, and storytelling.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. Ideally including components, plugins, auto layout, and scalable design systems.
• Comfort using or learning AI tools as part of the creative process.
• A sharp eye for detail and a high bar for quality from first concept to final file.
• The ability to work independently, anticipate needs, and move work forward without waiting for step-by-step direction.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach; someone who can give and receive feedback well.
• Motion experience is a plus, especially After Effects or similar tools.

About Us

Gen is a global leader in Cyber Safety and the company behind trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion. Gen reaches approximately 500 million global users across 150+ countries, and Newsweek recognized Gen Digital among America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 with a 4.5-star rating.

Compensation Range

$150K - $176K