Lead Graphic Designer
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Job Location:
Cambridge, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
POS-11902
Application Requirements
- Applications must be submitted by Friday Feb 6th at 5 pm ET
- Applications must be submitted in English.
- Portfolio required (link or attachment).
- Cover letters: Not required but optional
Role Summary
Our mission at HubSpot is to help millions of organizations grow better. As a Lead Graphic Designer on the Marketing team youll play a critical role in shaping how that mission comes to life visually across our global brand. Youll set creative direction for high-impact marketing work translate ambiguity into clarity and ensure our design output is consistently bold cohesive and human. This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who leads through craft taste and influence.
Team Overview
Youll join a collaborative Marketing Creative team that brings ideas to life across brand product and growth campaigns. Working closely with writers coders videographers marketers and product partners youll help set visual direction raise the bar on craft and deliver work thats cohesive inclusive and built to perform.
What Youll Do
- Own and define visual direction for integrated marketing campaigns creating north star concepts that guide execution across teams.
- Translate ambiguous goals and early-stage ideas into clear creative direction by shaping briefs scoping work and defining what success looks like before execution begins.
- Serve as a creative authority and trusted partner to Marketing stakeholders clearly articulating design rationale tradeoffs and risk/reward decisions.
- Work side-by-side with Copywriters Product Managers Marketers and other partners to ensure design is integrated early in the project lifecycle.
- Act as a brand guardian by setting up upholding and educating partners on design standards that ensure consistency accessibility and quality across channels.
- Lead by example through hands-on design work on complex high-visibility initiatives.
- Provide thoughtful actionable critique and mentorship that elevates the craft of designers and turns strong work into exceptional work.
- Prioritize work based on impact proactively manage scope and communicate trade-offs when constraints require focus.
- Partner with Project Managers to scope complex initiatives identify risks or bottlenecks and ensure teams hit deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Move beyond individual assets to build and evolve scalable design libraries brand guidelines and visual systems that empower others to move fast.
- Use performance insights experimentation and iteration to continuously evolve visual approaches and creative impact.
- Explore emerging design marketing and AI-powered creative toolsand how they can responsibly scale impact.
What Youll Bring
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of professional graphic or visual design experience with demonstrated leadership through craft.
- A portfolio showing strong conceptual thinking visual systems and end-to-end campaign work.
- Proven ability to set creative direction and guide work across a body of design not just execute briefs.
- Deep fluency in design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Strong communication skills and confidence in presenting and defending creative decisions to senior stakeholders
- Strong understanding of design principles layout and best practices across digital UI/ UX print and a desire to continually strengthen that understanding.
- Excellent typography skills and an extreme attention to detail.
- Enthusiastic about AI-powered creative tools keeps a finger on the pulse of design and marketing trends and thinks about how to scale impact.
- Experience working within and evolving a global brand system.
- Demonstrated ability to give clear constructive feedback that helps other designers grow.
- Experience breaking down complex projects into scoped deliverables managing timelines and holding yourself and partners accountable to quality and deadlines.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience in B2B/SaaS high-growth companies or environments that prioritize exceptional craft - whether thats design agencies brand studios or design-led organizations.
- Comfort with motion video illustration or interactive design.
- Experience collaborating with developers and technical teams to ensure designs are built with quality and fidelity.
Pay & Benefits
The cash compensation below includes base salary on-target commission for employees in eligible roles and annual bonus targets under HubSpots bonus plan for eligible addition to cash compensation some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpots equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills experience qualifications and other job-related reasons.
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About HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software integrations and resources customers need to connect marketing sales and service. HubSpots connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.
At HubSpot bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast stay customer-obsessed and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer Be Bold Learn Fast Align Adapt & Go! and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work lead and grow.
Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably Glassdoor Fortune and more HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge MA with employees and offices around the world.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Graphic Design
- Photography
- Adobe Acrobat
- HTML5
- Layout Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Web Design
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- CorelDraw
- Adobe Indesign
About Company
HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.
