Creative Design Lead – Marketing Campaigns

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop marketing creative for DuckDuckGo’s offerings, including Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions.

• Create and oversee creative campaigns, such as those promoting App Tracking Protection on Android.

• Design marketing material to support the launch and expansion of Duck.ai.

• Take complete ownership of design projects from initial concept to execution across multiple simultaneous campaigns.

• Deliver high-quality, on-brand creative work with minimal oversight.

• Provide guidance to other designers on marketing and brand implementation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders during the scoping and ideation phases.

• Refresh DuckDuckGo’s brand language with innovative creative ideas.

• Establish reusable systems to enhance the efficiency of marketing production.

• Offer insights on brand and marketing design throughout the team.

• Participate in video-conferenced meetings with the camera on.

• Travel a minimum of twice a year for an all-hands meeting and team retreat.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of practical experience in marketing or advertising design at a well-known consumer-facing brand, either in-house or at an agency.

• A portfolio showcasing versatility, depth, strong execution, and a unique creative perspective.

• Advanced skills in typography, color theory, and composition.

• Strong working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Outstanding creativity, aesthetic judgment, and design intuition.

• Demonstrated ability to generate original ideas and guide creative direction for marketing campaigns across conceptual and strategic execution.

• Capacity to manage projects from start to finish with minimal oversight, including scoping, stakeholder alignment, creative direction, and delivery.

• Impact-driven mindset using both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design choices.

• Capability to generate ideas, explore various creative avenues, and inspire colleagues.

• Proficiency in clearly articulating ideas through written project scopes that define the problem, user impact, and proposed solutions.

• Experience in advising or mentoring other designers is an advantage.

• Must attend meetings on camera via video conferencing.

• Must successfully pass a background check as a condition of employment.

• Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options.

• Company-sponsored health benefits for team members located in the United States.

• Paid parental leave.

• Office setup allowance.

• Co-working allowance.

• Flexible work arrangement without core hours.

• Remote-first work environment.

• Team all-hands meeting.

• Team retreat.