Creative Design Lead (Marketing Campaigns)

• Shape marketing creative for DuckDuckGo's growing portfolio spanning Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions as a hands-on creative force and idea generator. • Take full ownership of design work from concept through execution across multiple concurrent campaigns with minimal oversight. • Evolve the brand language with fresh creative concepts and help build reusable systems that make marketing production more efficient, growing into a go-to advisor for brand and marketing design across the team.

• Bring 9+ years of hands-on marketing or advertising design experience at a recognisable consumer-facing brand, either working in-house or agency side. • Have versatility in design with a portfolio demonstrating range, depth, strong execution, and a distinct creative point of view. • Have high proficiency in design fundamentals including typography, colour, and composition with a strong working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. • Have exceptional creativity, aesthetic judgement, and design intuition. • Have a proven track record of developing original ideas and leading creative direction across conceptual and strategic execution for 360 marketing campaigns and advertising. • Be comfortable driving projects end-to-end with minimal oversight including scoping, stakeholder alignment, creative direction, and delivery. • Take an impact-driven approach using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions. • Have strengths in generating ideas, exploring multiple creative directions, and inspiring peers. • Be able to communicate ideas clearly through written project scopes that define the problem, user impact, and proposed path forward.

• Have experience advising or mentoring other designers. • Have experience designing for privacy-focused or consumer technology brands. • Have experience building reusable design systems that improve marketing production efficiency. • Have experience working across multiple product lines simultaneously in a remote-first environment.

• Drive high-craft, on-brand creative for Duck.ai, search, browsers, and subscriptions with minimal oversight. • Advise fellow designers on marketing and brand execution. • Navigate cross-functional stakeholders during scoping and ideation. • Evolve the brand language with fresh creative concepts. • Help build reusable systems that make marketing production more efficient. • Take full ownership of design work from concept through execution across multiple concurrent campaigns. • Grow into a go-to advisor for brand and marketing design across the team.

• Receive $200,267 USD annually plus stock options, with compensation transparent across the organisation and the same within each professional level regardless of location. • Work fully remotely with no core hours and a flexible work arrangement. • Receive paid parental leave. • Receive an office setup and co-working allowance. • Travel approximately twice a year for an all-hands meetup and a team retreat of 4–5 days each. • Join a profitable company founded in 2008 with annual revenue exceeding $100m USD.

DuckDuckGo is 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 with annual revenue exceeding $100m USD, millions use the DuckDuckGo browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, the search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. The company also offers private, useful, and optional AI including Duck.ai for chatting privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs in one place.