Creative Design Lead (Marketing Campaigns)
Role Summary
Join DuckDuckGo as a Creative Design Lead to shape innovative marketing campaigns in a remote-first environment. Strong design skills and a passion for privacy are key!
About the Organisation
Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work, you've come to the right place!
- 9+ years of hands-on marketing or advertising design experience at a recognizable consumer-facing brand (either working in house or agency side).
- Versatility in design with a portfolio demonstrating range, depth, strong execution, and a distinct creative point of view.
- High proficiency in design fundamentals, including typography, color, and composition, with a strong working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Exceptional creativity, aesthetic judgment, and design intuition.
- A track record of proven experience developing original ideas and leading creative direction across conceptual and strategic execution for marketing campaigns.
- Comfort driving projects end-to-end with minimal oversight, including scoping, stakeholder alignment, creative direction, and delivery.
- An impact-driven approach, using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.
- Strengths in generating ideas, exploring multiple creative directions, and inspiring peers.
- Ability 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.
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The job is remote and does not specify restrictions on international applicants, but the visa sponsorship situation is unclear.
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