Remote Senior Manager, Visual Design

Summary

Join Honeycomb, a remote-first company, as a Senior Manager, Visual Design, to lead the growth and maturity of their Visual Design practice, and help take the beloved Honeycomb brand to new heights.

Requirements

• Experience leading and scaling a Visual Design team
• An expert understanding of graphic design foundations including typography, color, hierarchy, design psychology, composition, pacing, and proportion
• A passion for bleeding-edge visual and web design, including event assets and multimedia, with proven design chops
• Deep experience in being able to translate between business needs and how design can help achieve them
• A strong sense of systems and process thinking
• Maybe you haven’t built a team from scratch, but you know what best practices look like, and you know how to build processes to bridge current gaps
• Have experience with creative for a B2B brand, as well as designing for technical/developer audience
• Confidence managing through conflict; comfortable in delivering constructive feedback
• Ability to build strong cross functional relationships with several teams including marketing, product, sales, as well as manage relationships external vendors including freelancers and agencies

Responsibilities

• Healthy and Inclusive team builder
• Lead and develop the visual design team: create clear expectations and accountability practices, development and growth, inspired design and creative thinking
• Define and launch best practices around creating cohesive, high quality design
• Build systems that help mature and scale up our visual design practice
• Serve as a strategic partner in the prioritization of the needs of the business and team capacity; defines KPIs to measure successHarness the visionary element of our brand and product into an innovative, cutting edge design style
• Show up as an impactful cross functional partner within the Marketing org as well as in interfacing with other internal teams connected to the Honeycomb brand
• Establish effective feedback loops and processes between the Visual Design team and the rest of the org to better tap into the talent we have on the team, and external partners
• Work with head of Comms and Brand to establish clear career ladders for visual design
• Acts as a coach and mentor to visual design team; responsible for representing the visual design team (and their work) upwards, and advocating for what’s needed to be successful
• Think like an owner: Evolve the way Honeycomb shows up visually and reflect our leadership and willingness to push boundaries

Benefits

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance