Senior Brand Designer

Senior Visual Designer (Contract position)

About the Role: As a Senior Visual Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and elevating the visual identity of Recorded Future across all marketing touchpoints. You will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and executing high-impact campaigns across a wide range of mediums—from digital and print to video. This requires a strategic mindset, exceptional design skills, and deep expertise in translating complex B2B SaaS cybersecurity narratives into compelling, accessible visual stories. Beyond hands-on design execution, you will have the exciting opportunity to pioneer the use of AI-driven design tools within our team. By developing a brand-safe, self-service creative model, you will empower non-designers across the marketing organization to generate standard assets. 

Key Responsibilities

Cross-Medium Visual Design & Brand Identity:

• Lead the visual execution of integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive and premium brand experience across web, social media, email, print collateral, and event environments.
• Evolve and maintain the Recorded Future design system and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and scalability across global marketing teams.
• Design engaging data visualizations, infographics, and technical diagrams that distill complex cybersecurity concepts and threat research into easily digestible formats.

AI Integration & Self-Service Enablement:

• Champion the implementation of AI design tools (e.g., Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, etc.) into daily creative workflows to increase efficiency.
• Develop and manage a "self-service" design program, establishing clear, brand-safe boundaries, templates, and AI guidelines that empower marketing teammates to independently generate standard visual assets.
• Train, uplevel, and support non-creative marketing staff on how to effectively and safely use these tools while maintaining strict brand integrity.

Project & Agency Management:

• Act as the lead project manager for high-priority creative campaigns, effectively managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment.
• Oversee and direct external design agencies, freelance partners, and video production vendors, ensuring their output aligns with our brand standards, budgets, and business goals.

Video Production & Editing:

• Drive the production of video content, including storyboarding, art direction, and video editing for social media, website assets, product explainers, and corporate presentations.
• Manage video libraries, templates, and raw assets to empower the broader marketing team to leverage video effectively.

What You'll Bring

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in visual design, art direction, or a similar creative role, with significant experience in a B2B SaaS environment (Cybersecurity industry experience is highly preferred).
• Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop) and UI/UX digital design tools like Figma.
• A robust portfolio showcasing a breadth of work across multiple mediums, with specific examples of B2B marketing campaigns, data visualization, and video editing/production.
• Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience managing creative workflows, external agencies, and freelance talent.
• Proven experience or a strong, demonstrated interest in integrating AI creative tools into professional design workflows to optimize production times.
• Proven ability to take highly technical information and translate it into clean, modern, and engaging visual layouts and diagrams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions, evangelize new AI workflows, and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience doing creative work for high-growth, enterprise SaaS companies targeting C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs).
• Background in creating impactful creative for large-scale physical events and trade shows (e.g., Black Hat, RSA).
• Familiarity with web design principles, HTML/CSS, and working alongside web developers.