Creative Design Lead (Marketing Campaigns)

About the role

Working on the Design Functional Team, you'll shape marketing creative for DuckDuckGo's growing portfolio spanning Duck.ai, Search, Browsers, and Subscriptions, using tools like Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite, and working on related projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-craft, on-brand creative for Duck.ai, Search/Browse, and Subscriptions with minimal oversight
• 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 with 2+ years at a recognizable consumer-facing tech brand (either working in-house or agency side)
• A versatile designer with a portfolio demonstrating range, depth, strong execution, and a distinct creative point of view
• Proficient in design fundamentals, including typography, colour, and composition, with 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
• 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
• Experience advising or mentoring other designers is a plus

Qualifications

• Compensation: $200,267 USD annually and stock options
• Company-sponsored health benefits are eligible for team members based in the United States only
• Flexible work arrangement with no core hours, averaging 40 hours per week
• Background check required as a condition of joining the team

Skills

• Strong design skills
• Experience with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Benefits

• Transparent compensation across the organization
• Health benefits available to team members based in the United States only
• Paid parental leave
• Office setup and co-working allowances

Schedule

• Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week
• Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days)

Pay

• $200,267 USD annually