Senior Brand Designer
Cloudsmith
Design
United Kingdom
Senior Brand Designer
TL;DR: We're seeking a creative, energetic brand designer to help us win more attention in the market and build a global brand
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 Senior Brand Designer you’ll work on our Brand team, reporting to our Principal Brand Designer, Alison Newman. Working with Alison, you’ll create novel branded content and experiences designed to get attention in the market, demonstrating that Cloudsmith is an enterprise-ready company.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Concepting
You’ll help to generate ideas for novel, interesting content and experiences built around trends, market insights, customer problems and other stimuli
You’ll critically evaluate your ideas, throwing away anything that probably won’t resonate with target customers
You’ll refine your ideas until they’re as compelling as possible
You’ll describe what channels, content, assets, experiences need to be used or created to deliver on your concepts
You’ll plan for your concepts to be delivered
Branded Content
You’ll deliver a steady stream of high quality branded content designed to get attention in the market - graphics, assets, content. Much of this will be content for sharing online; web, social - but some will be content for delivery at real-world events
You’ll work with the wider team to get your work out to a wide audience
You’ll measure the success of your work and refine later concepts in line with what you learn
Brand Support
You’ll align to at least one of our other functions (marketing, sales, operations etc.) to support them with the use of our brand. Typically this involves creating compelling documents, presentations, tools & templates - ensuring we always come across as authentic and credible, wherever we show up
You’ll help us maintain and evolve our brand book and brand toolkit
Required Experience, Qualities & Skills
Essential Skills
5+ years of relevant design experience working in-house at a technology or digital product company, or relevant agency experience
An excellent portfolio of digital design work demonstrating your fundamental skills in brand design, graphic design, comms design
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; is interested in their work being seen by a wide audience and can evaluate the success/otherwise of what they make
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 time to time
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 build a global brand with a lasting impact on the software industry.
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.