Senior Brand Designer

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company! **Senior Visual Designer (Contract position)** **About the Role:** As a Senior Visual Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and elevating the visual identity of Recorded Future across all marketing touchpoints. You will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and executing high-impact campaigns across a wide range of mediums—from digital and print to video. This requires a strategic mindset, exceptional design skills, and deep expertise in translating complex B2B SaaS cybersecurity narratives into compelling, accessible visual stories. Beyond hands-on design execution, you will have the exciting opportunity to pioneer the use of AI-driven design tools within our team. By developing a brand-safe, self-service creative model, you will empower non-designers across the marketing organization to generate standard assets. ### **Key Responsibilities** **Cross-Medium Visual Design & Brand Identity:** - Lead the visual execution of integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive and premium brand experience across web, social media, email, print collateral, and event environments. - Evolve and maintain the Recorded Future design system and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and scalability across global marketing teams. - Design engaging data visualizations, infographics, and technical diagrams that distill complex cybersecurity concepts and threat research into easily digestible formats. **AI Integration & Self-Service Enablement:** - Champion the implementation of AI design tools (e.g., Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, etc.) into daily creative workflows to increase efficiency. - Develop and manage a "self-service" design program, establishing clear, brand-safe boundaries, templates, and AI guidelines that empower marketing teammates to independently generate standard visual assets. - Train, uplevel, and support non-creative marketing staff on how to effectively and safely use these tools while maintaining strict brand integrity. **Project & Agency Management:** - Act as the lead project manager for high-priority creative campaigns, effectively managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment. - Oversee and direct external design agencies, freelance partners, and video production vendors, ensuring their output aligns with our brand standards, budgets, and business goals. **Video Production & Editing:** - Drive the production of video content, including storyboarding, art direction, and video editing for social media, website assets, product explainers, and corporate presentations. - Manage video libraries, templates, and raw assets to empower the broader marketing team to leverage video effectively. ### **What You'll Bring** **Minimum Requirements:** - 8+ years of experience in visual design, art direction, or a similar creative role, with significant experience in a B2B SaaS environment (Cybersecurity industry experience is highly preferred). - Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop) and UI/UX digital design tools like Figma. - A robust portfolio showcasing a breadth of work across multiple mediums, with specific examples of B2B marketing campaigns, data visualization, and video editing/production. - Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience managing creative workflows, external agencies, and freelance talent. - Proven experience or a strong, demonstrated interest in integrating AI creative tools into professional design workflows to optimize production times. - Proven ability to take highly technical information and translate it into clean, modern, and engaging visual layouts and diagrams. - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions, evangelize new AI workflows, and…