About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled, senior-level brand designer to join our Brand & Creative Studio as an Associate Creative Director. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on elevating the quality of creative work across a global portfolio of renowned brands. You will collaborate with creative leadership and cross-functional teams to bring innovative ideas to life, driving projects from concept to execution with a strategic and collaborative approach.
Responsibilities
- Create elevated, strategically grounded design across branding, campaigns, digital, social, presentations, content systems, and brand experiences.
- Translate brand strategy into distinctive visual ideas, scalable systems, and polished creative executions.
- Work as a senior hands-on designer across high-priority initiatives, moving between concept development, art direction, layout, typography, image-making, and final production.
- Partner with creative directors, writers, strategists, marketers, and product teams to develop work that is both brand-building and business-relevant.
- Help raise the quality bar across the studio through strong craft, thoughtful critique, and sharp creative judgment.
- Use AI tools as part of the creative process — from exploration and ideation to image generation, editing, prototyping, production support, and workflow acceleration.
- Bring a high level of visual taste to photography, illustration, motion, UI-inspired design, and campaign systems.
- Stay close to emerging tools, design trends, platform behaviors, and AI-enabled creative workflows.
Requirements
- A portfolio that shows exceptional design craft, strong conceptual thinking, and work for prominent global brands or high-visibility clients.
- Experience across brand identity, digital design, campaign systems, social, and integrated creative.
- Strong art direction instincts, especially around photography, composition, typography, visual systems, and storytelling.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. Ideally including components, plugins, auto layout, and scalable design systems.
- Comfort using or learning AI tools as part of the creative process.
- A sharp eye for detail and a high bar for quality from first concept to final file.
- The ability to work independently, anticipate needs, and move work forward without waiting for step-by-step direction.
- A collaborative, low-ego approach; someone who can give and receive feedback well.
- Motion experience is a plus, especially After Effects or similar tools.
Skills
- Brand Identity
- Digital Design
- Campaign Systems
- Social Media Design
- Integrated Creative
- Art Direction
- Photography
- Composition
- Typography
- Visual Systems
- Storytelling
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- AI Tools
- After Effects
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- Associate Creative Director
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Time off
- Competitive pay
- Benefits
- Well-being programs
About the Company
- Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more.
- Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.
- We are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven.
- We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team.
- You’ll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage.
- Gen is a global leader in Cyber Safety and the company behind trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion.
- Gen reaches approximately 500 million global users across 150+ countries, and Newsweek recognized Gen Digital among America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 with a 4.5-star rating.
