Role Description
Weβre seeking a seasoned Senior Brand & Web Designer with a hybrid skill set across web, social, digital, event, and presentation design, who excels at translating marketing goals into polished, on-brand visual deliverables. This senior-level role combines hands-on execution with campaign planning support. You will draft creative briefs and propose visual directions for campaigns and initiatives, review them with the Creative Director for final strategic decisions, and then own the creation of approved assets. You will be expected to uphold brand standards across your work, as well as contribute ideas to refine and evolve the brand expression where necessary. Success in this role means producing accurate, production-ready work that meets business goals, is easy to collaborate on, and requires minimal rework. This is a remote opportunity with broad ownership and impact across social, advertising, sales, event, and website functions.Responsibilities
- Execute for design initiatives across our website, social channels, events, reports, and sales collateral, translating project requirements into elegant design solutions.
- Deliver work on a timely and consistent basis, using the best-fit tool for each project based on output and collaboration requirements.
- Uphold a cohesive visual language across brand, marketing, and website efforts, owning the execution of compelling designs and contributing to the ongoing refinement of the brand in partnership with the Creative Director.
- Create unique, sub-branded visual styles for specific campaigns, while still maintaining alignment to overall brand tone and visual voice.
- Work closely with the Creative Director to establish project and campaign visual direction, contributing to a design-led culture that prioritizes clear communication, user experience, and visual impact.
- Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into clear, effective design solutions aligned with business priorities.
- Use campaign performance data and feedback to refine and improve future design executions.
- Stay ahead of design, technology, and digital marketing trends to proactively evolve our creative strategy and maintain a competitive edge.
- Independently manage complex design projects from brief through final delivery, ensuring accuracy and quality.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications
- Must demonstrate experience designing robust brand campaigns, with clear examples of strong execution across multiple formats (website, social, events, decks, ads).
- Experience designing pages and blocks for consumer-facing marketing websites, as well as other brand touchpoints.
- Evolving brand guidelines based on campaign purpose, market fit and performance data.
- Ability to draft and implement creative direction.
- Creation of stylistically-related sub-branding for campaigns and events.
- Clean production files and attention to detail.
Core Design Capabilities
- 5+ years of graphic and digital design experience.
- Expert proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Canva.
- Strong layout, typography, and production skills.
- Experience preparing both digital and print-ready files.
- Ability to visually-simplify complex or technical content visually.
- A sophisticated understanding of brand systems, responsive web design, and visual storytelling.
Work Style & Communication
- Experience working fully remote with distributed teams across time zones.
- Reliable, timely communication and documentation.
- Proactive in drafting briefs and proposing direction.
- Comfortable receiving feedback and iterating quickly.
- Excellent visual and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications (Strong Plus)
- Previous experience designing for technical products with highly-specific audiences.
- Previous experience organizing dense technical information into clear, visually-appealing, and easily-understandable hierarchies.
- Experience creating pages and blocks for Wordpress-hosted websites.
- Eagerness to understand the nuances of our products, including OCI registries, container technologies, or package management.
Company Overview
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.What We Work On
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy
Health
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
Financial
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
Leave
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Yearβs Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
