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This is a Senior Manager-level role in scope and compensation: we’re looking for someone with the taste and craft of a creative director who is still building toward that title, not someone who already has it and won’t be hands-on anymore.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the DataCore brand and its evolution: lead the refresh of the brand book and the digital design system from the ground up in the first 90 days, and keep both current as the single source of truth\nDesign and ideate creative for demand generation and awareness campaigns, ads, and landing pages, hands-on rather than directing from a brief.\nOwn the digital design point of view: lead or play a key role in the ongoing evolution of a flagship web presence like DataCore.com, bringing current web design practice to every digital touchpoint.\nOwn physical and event-facing creative: event collateral, swag, and the in-person expression of the brand.\n Design PowerPoint templates and sales enablement materials that hold the same quality bar as any customer-facing asset.\nPartner with the GTM engineering team to build AI-driven design workflows that automate and scale production, so the work outpaces the size of the team.\nPartner with product marketing, revenue marketing, and social on creative that serves their programs, not just brand for its own sake.\nBring real social media design experience to the team’s output, not just campaign and web work.\nLead and coach the in-house designer on this team, and manage freelance support today, with an eye toward managing creative agency relationships as the team scales.\nStay current, and keep the team current, on the latest design trends and tools rather than defaulting to what’s always worked.\nIdeal Candidate Profile\nWe’re looking for a mid-career designer who has the craft and instincts of a creative director, someone who might already hold that title at an agency, or is the next call away from it, but who wants to keep making the work personally rather than only directing it. This is a senior craft-and-leadership role, not a step down from a Director title, and not a step up to one either.\nRequired Qualifications\nA working, hands-on designer first: you’re still on the keyboard every day, not someone who has moved fully into direction and review.\nDeep, current fluency in Figma and the modern design toolkit, alongside Adobe, not the Adobe stack alone.\nReal, hands-on experience with AI creative tools (Midjourney, Nano Banana, and similar) as part of your actual production process, not just familiarity with them.\nA portfolio that shows brand systems thinking: you’ve built or substantially evolved a brand identity and design system, not just executed within one someone else built.\nDirect experience leading or playing a key role in the redesign of a flagship web presence (a company’s primary .com), with current web design practice.\nRange across campaign creative (demand gen, ads, landing pages), physical and event collateral, and sales enablement materials like PowerPoint templates, not a single-channel specialist.\nSocial media design experience.\nExperience managing a small design team and freelance resources; 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