Mongodb Senior Manager, Creative Director at MongoDB leads the brand creative design team and owns the creative vision and execution standards. The role sets creative direction, leads AI and generative design, and partners across business units.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop the Brand Creative design team. Set priorities, define roles and performance standards, coach and grow designers at every level, and hold a consistent bar for craft and execution across every program
Set creative direction. Own concepting and ideation for high-impact brand campaigns and initiatives, translating brand strategy into scalable visual systems across print, digital, motion, and environmental applications
Own the brand systems. Steward and evolve typography, iconography, logo, color, and layout frameworks. Keep the brand library, presentation templates, icons, and brand guidelines accurate and up to date
Lead AI and generative design. Identify where AI tools can improve speed, quality, and creative possibility. Set guardrails for how they are used on brand work, and lead the team in making them part of everyday practice
Lead events and environmental design. Direct the creative for large-scale brand moments (e.g. .local, AWS re:Invent, SKO), from early concept through delivery, in close partnership with Strategic Events
Bridge brand and social. Work with Social and Influencer Marketing to extend campaigns and events into platform-native content, with clear creative guidance for creators and partners
Stay hands-on. Roll up your sleeves on concepts and key deliverables when the work calls for it, and model the quality and taste you expect from the team
Build brand enablement. Create the templates, documentation, and guidance that let teams across the company (and external partners) apply the brand confidently and correctly, including programs beyond marketing
Partner across the business. Collaborate with Events, Social, Web, Customer Marketing, Product, Employee Experience, and Corporate Communications to keep every brand touchpoint consistent. Manage agencies, contractors, and specialty disciplines like animation and illustration
Plan work and capacity. Prioritize across competing requests, manage timelines and budgets, and surface resourcing risk early so it never becomes a delivery problem
Present and influence. Share creative concepts and rationale with senior stakeholders, and clearly explain design decisions and constraints to both creative and non-creative audiences
Qualification
BFA or MA/MS in design8+ years of design experienceA portfolio that shows event designExperience managing agenciesMongoDB is built for changeWith offices worldwide and over 67
Required
BFA or MA/MS in design, art and design, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
8+ years of design experience, ideally with 2+ years managing and developing designers
A portfolio that shows event design, campaigns, layout, design systems, and visual storytelling, with clear examples of your creative direction
Experience building and operationalizing brand and design systems, ideally for B2B, technology, or SaaS brands
Experience directing environmental and event design for large-scale brand moments
Advanced knowledge of Adobe and Figma systems, libraries, and scalable brand documentation
Hands-on experience applying AI and generative tools to creative workflows, and leading a team to adopt them
Experience managing agencies, contractors, and cross-functional creative projects within timelines and budgets
Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across functions and seniority levels
Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to present creative rationale to non-creative audiences
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
