Senior Designer

About Us

Codeword is a communication agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences. We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers. Our incredible roster of global brands trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We're storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose. Codeword is a remote-first agency, with physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit.

About You

Experience: 7+ years in design, ideally within a tech company or an integrated agency. Creative Fluency: You must speak the language. You have a background in design, video, and web development. You can anticipate what a creative team needs before they ask. You have strong typography and layout skills, and experience with brand guidelines and systems. Tooling: Proficiency with project management software (Asana, Jira, or similar), Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite. Personality: Not shy about sharing your opinion (without being an A-hole). Comfortable with trending tech topics. Knows how to talk, how to write, how to hold boundaries and how to juggle a variety of projects.

About This Role

We are looking for a multidisciplinary Sr Designer to manage the design side of our creative output. You will own the design for our primary data center brand channels: our external website (inc. all content assets), the "Where the Internet Lives" podcast, social channels and our internal knowledge platforms. You are responsible for shaping and maintaining the visual identity of the brand. This role is pivotal in building the future of our data center brand. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of brand principles and community intricacies that underpin high-performing, scalable, and resilient data center communities. You will be a key player in the complete lifecycle of our data center projects, from initial concept through to implementation and continuous storytelling. You are our-go to person for all matters design. We need someone with a creative background who also understands the production process well enough to anticipate problems, but whose primary focus is on an iterative process and execution aligned with business needs. This Designer will work alongside an award-winning in-house team focused on Google’s AI infrastructure across creative, social, insights and ops.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Protect the brand: Define, specify, and champion robust brand and community practices, protecting design guidelines for our data center infrastructure.
• Design proposals: Develop and present high-quality design proposals for community engagement, events, KOF meetings, and internal storytelling.
• Own design: Drive design projects and presentations from conceptual design through detailed strategic business alignment, iteration, and final implementation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Act as a key technical partner to our brand and community teams. A comprehensive understanding of how our data center communities operate is fundamental. You will participate in strategic planning and sprint sessions, contributing new perspectives and innovative ideas for enhancing the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data center communities.
• Problem-solve proactively: Create detailed concepts, website mockups, technical presentations, and comprehensive brand specifications that ensure a highly reliable and efficient data center brand expression. Take ownership of your assigned projects and be accountable for their quality and successful delivery through proactive problem-solving and diligent follow-through.
• Push boundaries: Drive improvements in the data center design and brand processes for the entire team. Be an integral part of the evolution of our data center brand strategy and infrastructure, working collaboratively with your teammates to push the boundaries of performance and storytelling.

Your Compensation

People – that's you! – are the heart of our business, and we believe in pay transparency. Our budget for this role is $85K - $125K, depending on experience.

Codeword Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
• 401k + financial wellness support
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services)
• Home office allowance
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
• Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy

A Few More Things You Should Know About Codeword

• The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like.
• We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them.
• We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture.
• We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together.
• We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles.
• We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world.
• We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.)
• We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family.
• Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do!

Key skills/competency

• Senior Designer
• Brand Guidelines
• Visual Identity
• Typography
• Layout Skills
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma
• Project Management
• Web Development
• Video Production