Web/Digital Designer
Cloudsmith
Design
United Kingdom
Web/Digital Designer
TL;DR: We're seeking a creative, energetic and highly skilled web/digital designer to help us create wonderful, attention-grabbing online experiences.
About Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is transforming how organizations handle software artifacts and secure their supply chains. As a fully managed multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, we enable organizations to build software better, through best-in-class artifact management and software supply chain security. Our vision is to become the software supply chain itself, powering the future of software delivery.
We are the world's most potent artifact management platform, built by developers for developers. Our platform supports over 30 formats spanning languages, container formats, and operating systems, with enterprise-grade features, including vulnerability and security scanning, world-class policy management and enforcement, and web-scale to handle the Fortune 500. Organizations integrate Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure into their development, deployment, and distribution pipelines, trusting us to protect and accelerate, no matter the scale.
Backed by top-tier investors and on a trajectory toward IPO and beyond, we're building mission-critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organizations worldwide. We operate at the cutting edge of cloud-native technology, tackling complex distributed systems challenges that directly impact millions of developers. Now is an exciting time to join us as we revolutionize how organizations deliver and secure software and help write the next chapter of our rocketship growth story.
The Role
As a web/digital designer, you’ll work as part of our Brand team, and report to our Principal Brand Designer, Alison Newman. Working with Alison, you’ll design a stream of improvements and new experiences for our website, Cloudsmith.com. You’ll design new atoms, components, blocks and pages to solve specific challenges, and you’ll craft entire new experiences (engaging technology stories, interactive tools) to meet wider brand and communication objectives. We place a premium on how we look and feel online, especially on our website, and this is a chance to fundamentally influence how we meet our target customers.
Key Responsibilities
Concept Development
You’ll develop creative concepts in response to business problems; taking input from the brand team, sales team, marketing team - then developing ideas for our website
You’ll take content - e.g. written materials - and develop creative solutions to communicating that content online
You’ll critically evaluate and develop the best of your ideas with input from the brand and wider design teams
You’ll work in support of other functions in the business; marketing, sales, product - who need our website to be successful; publishing content, communicating key messages, describing product benefits.
Digital Design
You’ll design new components, pages, interactive experiences for our website - Cloudsmith.com
You’ll design standalone micro-sites and once-off online tools to help meet specific brand or commercial objectives
You’ll design for our social media channels, helping to bring wider attention to Cloudsmith
You’ll be the go-to digital designer when the brand team want to create a novel online experience
Design Systems, Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement - You will look for ways to improve existing pages, blocks, components, experiences on our website
Design system - You will maintain and extend our website design system to cater for new use cases and experiences
You’ll help us to keep the website in line with other online touchpoints like our web application (app.cloudsmith.com), documentation website (docs.cloudsmith.com) - through regular collaboration and interaction with other teams
Required Experience, Qualities & Skills
Essential Skills
3+ years of relevant digital design experience working in-house at a technology or digital product company, or relevant agency experience
An excellent portfolio of digital design work demonstrating web/digital design, interactive design; preferably work that’s online we can look at and interact with
Strong fundamental design skills; layout, typography, colour, illustration
Advanced skills in Figma; essential design skills, incorporating design systems/libraries, working with variables
Ability to work hands-on with web developers to support translation of design to working builds
A very strong understanding of what can and can’t be built for the browser; and the ability to work within realistic technical constraints
Some hands-on prototyping abilities in html, css, js is desirable, even if supported by AI (Claude etc.)
Cultural Values We're Looking For
Ideally we need somebody who can:
Collaborative, collaborate, collaborate; you’ll be working as part of a team, and you need to know how to work as part of a creative team
Think creatively; identifying novel/fun/interesting solutions to problems and challenges
Think commercially; understand the underlying drivers behind design; desired business outcomes, user needs, technical constraints
Deliver consistently; designs great solutions to problems over and over again
Deliver efficiently; takes the right amount of time to get to the solution, but no more
Communicate effectively; as a remote-first company we value writing as a core skill, and effective in-person communication from when we get together
Impact & Opportunity
This role offers the chance to work in a fast paced environment with lots to learn, and many creative problems to solve. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, your work will directly impact how organizations get to know and love Cloudsmith.
Benefits, Location & Work Environment
You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.
Headlines
A position based in Ireland or the United Kingdom.
A competitive compensation package, including equity.
With comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
Plus, generous annual leave and flexible working policies to suit your lifestyle.
Including a professional development budget for conferences and training.
In a dynamic, innovative, trust-centric, and supportive work environment.
With the opportunity to shape a fast-growing Series C startup (and beyond).
Health and Wellness
Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer health and wellbeing benefits along with flexible family-friendly working policies.
Personal Growth
You will have an enormous opportunity to learn new skills alongside your colleagues, and your continued professional development is essential to us because it's important to you. We will support you with budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.
Facilities
Cloudsmith is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with fully-equipped office space that’s open 24x7. We use our H.Q. regularly for activities like working sessions, team planning, meets and greets, and sometimes other group activities (like games!). We also hold all-hands offsites in Belfast twice yearly, with guest speakers and team activities. Many Cloudsmithers work remotely, so we rely on our online collaboration tools; Slack, Google Docs, Linear, and other popular collaboration tools are how we work.
About Equal Opportunity
Cloudsmith is an equal-opportunity employer proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnic groups. We do not discriminate on age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within our workforce.
The Final Word
We're looking for someone who can balance creativity with high-quality execution and is fearless in rolling up their sleeves when needed. We want to hear from you if you're excited to shape how an emerging global technology brand looks, sounds, communicates online.
About Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too.