Lead Designer

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it.

Darkroom is a progressive growth marketing and digital strategy firm focused on growth-stage B2C companies. Our team has been responsible for over a billion dollars in trackable revenue for hundreds of commerce, retail, software, and B2C businesses. Darkroom strictly focuses on developing the next generation of digital services.

We are thrilled to introduce the role of Design Lead for the Darkroom marketing team. As a core member of our Revenue team (which houses Sales and Marketing for the Darkroom brand), you will be a key ingredient in owning the Darkroom brand and design aesthetic for all marketing communications. Your major responsibility will be working with our Director of Content to grow Darkroom into high double-digit growth YoY.

As a Lead Designer, you’ll independently lead Darkroom design, primarily focused on graphics for organic social, UI/UX for the website, marketing decks, landing pages, and other experimental graphics that are needed. You will OWN the creative direction of our Instagram grid and will be the final say in curating a vibe and aesthetic that lives up to DARKROOM STANDARDS.

This is a fully remote role operating in the EST Time Zone and all business is conducted 100% in English. Open to candidates in the following locations: Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and the UK.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage all design work for the Darkroom brand across all major marketing touchpoints, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Case Studies, and any other graphical application of the Darkroom brand that is needed.

• Own the Darkroom Instagram feed, making design choices that fit our aesthetic and revenue goals.

• Work with motion and video editors to execute together on projects.

• Design formats will include landing pages, paid ads, and organic social posts among others.

• Design website landing pages, case study pages, and site experiences that showcase Darkroom’s prowess as a leader in the growth marketing and design space.

• Approach UI/UX design with a focus on branded UI, conversion-focused UX, and clarity.

• Develop brand identity systems for Darkroom content formats; like our podcast Social Studies or our event series Office Hours. Come up with new design identities as needed.

• Regularly present your work to the Director of Content and back up your design choices with effective reasoning.

• Successfully project manages design engagements from end to end with adherence to a timeline (i.e. Lead projects from discovery through to ideation, iteration, and hand-off).

• Collaborate with Framer Developers to understand the technical limitations of the platform; within 45 days of work at Darkroom develop a mastery of the Framer platform without the use of a developer (this is a no-code website builder we will help you out with in-training).

• Approach your designs with a sense of structure, creating component systems and adhering to spacing, padding, type style, and color style guidelines.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years experience as a brand designer, UI/UX designer, product designer, web designer, or similar role, in a high-caliber creative environment.

• You understand how UI/UX and ad decisions affect consumer psychology and behavior, and you apply these principles to your design.

• You possess a sense of ownership and proactively apply a high standard of visual craft to work. In other words, your design foundations like color theory, hierarchy, composition, and typography are best-in-class.

• You have a portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to produce stunning creative work that has performed against business goals.

• You understand how to turn ideas and discussions into actionable next steps.

• You have a proven track record of collaborating with developers or engineers and understand how to document your designs for development hand-off.

• You’re fully comfortable in being a team lead designer in English, performing job functions such as leading design calls, backing up your design work with reasoning, and resolving feedback.

• You’re able to apply structure to ambiguity, by understanding client-specific problem spaces, designing solutions, and then executing on them.

• Strong experience in Figma, and functionality like Auto Layout, Components, and Variants, is a must.

• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) is a must.

• Bonus: Experience with Framer.

What it is like to work at Darkroom:

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it. We only seek out the best—from our clients to our people. Our team is our most sacred asset, and we offer highly competitive salaries and the following perks:

• Unlimited Vacation Policy, and Holidays: Rebooting is one of the most important parts of growth. At Darkroom, you have access to a flexible vacation policy, and 10 holidays throughout the year to keep you recharged and sharp.

• Location, location, (or no) location: Remote-first culture with a strong community base. With Hubs in LA, The Bay Area, New York, Philly, Sao Paulo, Lisbon, and Eastern Europe.

• Endless opportunities for growth: Our agency is founded on an interdisciplinary approach, giving Darkroomers insights into services far beyond your job description. Grow your skills and interests beyond your niche and stay at the forefront of the industry through total immersion in cross-functional collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Darkroom is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.