Senior Brand & Web Designer

Role Description

We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Brand & Webl 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.

The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Portfolio Requirements

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 managem

Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.

Remote - USA

$116,875—$158,125 USD

Who We Are

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 Do

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

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

Health

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy

• 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 Year’s Day)
• Paid Parental Leave

Learning

• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

_Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.

__At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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