Lead Graphic Designer

## **At Nord Security, we’re creating a safer cyber future.** Nord Security is a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, trusted by millions of users worldwide. We build a comprehensive ecosystem of digital privacy and security tools, including our flagship NordVPN, alongside advanced password management, identity protection, and cutting-edge threat prevention software. We are on a mission to simplify complex digital security topics through human, high-quality design, giving people complete control over their digital lives ## **About our Design Team** We're a multidisciplinary group of Product designers, UX/UI designers, UX researchers, UX writers, and graphic designers. We're building the future of digital freedom across our cybersecurity products, helping millions of users feel safe and in control online. Our focus is simplifying complex cybersecurity topics through clear, human, and high-quality design. We value ownership, honest feedback, and creative initiative - and we expect everyone here to think, challenge, and take responsibility for their craft. ## **Your impact** Shaping how millions experience the Nord Security brands while raising the craft and judgment of the designers around you. You'll hold the bar for visual quality across campaigns and surfaces, partner with the Brand Design Lead on cross-brand questions, and contribute hands-on to the work that matters most - all while building the conditions for your team to do their best work over time. ## **About the role** We're looking for a Lead Graphic Designer to set the creative bar for NordVPN and Nord Security brands and the team that designs for it. This role is 70% hands-on craft and 30% leadership of designers - you'll be deeply involved in the work, while also coaching, mentoring, and raising the ability of the team around you. You'll be accountable for whether the team's creative output meets the bar, whether marketing trusts our design partnership, whether the brand sees us as strategic. You'll partner with the Brand Design Lead on the cross-brand creative strategy questions that span the portfolio, contributing your perspective on what works for your audience and market. You'll hold both lines that define graphic design at Nord: brand integrity and conversion impact, and you'll know when each one matters more. ## **Main Responsibilities** - Setting the visual quality and creative bar across marketing and brand projects for NordVPN and Nord Security brands - Raising the concept-thinking ability of the designers around you through coaching, critique, and how clearly you set the bar for what *good* looks like - Owning the creative quality of your team's output - your team's work is your responsibility, not just your own - Partnering with the Brand Design Lead on creative strategy and cross-brand consistency questions - Translating business briefs into clear creative direction that holds brand integrity while serving conversion - Building the production conditions (file systems, tooling, handoff patterns) that let your team work at quality and speed - Contributing hands-on to high-stakes work: campaign concepts, brand guidelines, anything that becomes a reference for the team - Shaping how generative AI fits into the team's craft - prompt libraries, image treatment pipelines, ethical and brand guardrails - Mentoring designers and contributing to hiring decisions ## **Core Requirements** - 6+ years of experience in marketing design, branding, or creative agencies - Experience leading or mentoring designers, formally or informally - Strong visual design and art direction skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates both refined craft and conceptual depth - Concept-thinking ability: you can take a brief from origination to outcome, not just execute on someone else's direction - Working fluency with generative AI tools as part of your daily craft, with judgment about when AI is the right answer and when it isn't - Ability to give clear, specific, and action…