Creative Design Lead

Design, London, UK

About the Team

The Creative Design Lead will lead our Creative Studio at Miro and design execution for the product's visual outputs, ensuring a consistent and engaging brand identity. They collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product designers, marketers, developers, and executives, to create designs that align with business goals and user needs.

This role involves a mix of creative leadership, hands-on design, and team management to deliver high-quality visual content that resonates with the target audience and enhances the overall user experience.

About the Role

Creative Leadership
  • Define and maintain the visual style and brand identity across all touchpoints, including product interfaces, marketing website and videos.
  • Raise the quality bar (sweat the details!) through well-crafted highly expressive visual and interactive elements.
  • Develop innovative and user-centric design concepts that align with the product's objectives and target audience.
  • Translate complex ideas and product features into compelling visual stories.
  • Approve final designs, ensuring they meet technical requirements and creative standards.
Team Management
  • Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of designers, illustrators, and other creatives.
  • Provide constructive feedback and ensure alignment with the company’s creative vision.
  • Manage workload distribution, timelines, and quality control across projects.
Collaboration
  • Work closely with UX/UI designers, marketing/brand and developers to ensure seamless integration of design and functionality.
  • Collaborate with external agencies, vendors, or freelancers when needed.
Strategic Contribution
  • Contribute to the development of long-term brand and product design strategies.
  • Stay updated on design trends, user behavior insights, and competitor analysis to refine creative outputs.
  • Advocate for design-led thinking within the company to elevate product and brand perception.
Success Metrics
  • Consistency and quality of the product's visual identity.
  • Team satisfaction and growth.
  • Positive user feedback on design elements.
  • Contribution to improved user engagement and brand awareness.

What you’ll do

  • Build a world class art team to produce industry changing in-product creative assets that drive next level engagement
  • Define and maintain the visual style and brand identity across all touchpoints, including product interfaces, marketing website and videos
  • Raise the quality bar (sweat the details!) through well-crafted highly expressive visual and interactive elements
  • Develop innovative and user-centric design concepts that align with the product's objectives and target audience
  • Translate complex ideas and product features into compelling visual stories
  • Approve final designs, ensuring they meet technical requirements and creative standards

What you’ll need

  • A deep passion for getting things pixel perfect
  • Creative leader who pushes the boundaries and sets a new bar for the industry
  • Experience working with a range of brands and styles
  • Brings creative assets to life to build emotional resonance

What's in it for you

  • Competitive equity package
  • Health insurance for you and your family
  • Corporate pension plan
  • Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
  • Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
  • Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
  • Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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Here are some helpful tips to ensure you have all the correct information throughout our hiring process.

  • 01. Recruiter Screen

    A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.

  • 02. Hiring Manager

    The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.

  • 03. Skill Assesment

    An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.

  • 04. Meet the Team

    Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture.

  • 05. Leadership Round

    Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro. 

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