Lead Graphic Designer

at Nord Security

📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
📍 Kaunas, Lithuania

EUR 43,200-57,600 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

Tech Stack
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Details

We're looking for a Lead Graphic Designer to set the creative bar for the NordVPN Product Squad while supporting the Nord Security umbrella brand. The role is 70% hands-on craft and 30% leadership, involving execution, coaching, mentoring, and raising the team's design quality.

Responsibilities

Set the visual quality and creative bar across web surfaces, mobile marketing, in-app assets, and video content.
Guide designers through coaching, critique, and clear benchmarks across digital and motion touchpoints.
Take responsibility for the creative quality of the squad's output and promote strategic, high-craft design.
Collaborate with the Brand Design Lead to maintain global brand consistency across NordVPN's digital and mobile assets.
Turn marketing objectives into visual narratives for web layouts, app stores, and video formats.
Build production systems, including file systems, Figma tooling, and handoff patterns for web and mobile developers.
Work on high-priority website landing pages, mobile asset frameworks, and video asset pipelines.
Integrate generative AI tools ethically into the team's daily design work.
Provide quality assurance, conceptual thinking, and mentorship for the Nord Security umbrella brand.

Requirements

5+ 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, demonstrated through a portfolio showing refined craft and conceptual depth.
Ability to balance brand consistency with performance outcomes and user engagement.
Working fluency with generative AI tools and judgment about when to use them.
Strong understanding of brand systems and multi-channel design.
Excellent written and verbal English skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with photography, photo editing, or compositing.
Illustration skills or experience guiding illustration styles.
Experience designing AI-assisted creative workflows for a team.
Understanding of 3D visuals or experience collaborating with 3D designers.
Experience working with large-scale or global brands.
Knowledge of the digital product environment.

Tools

Figma
Generative AI tools
Full Adobe Suite

Benefits

Online and in-person training, access to Coursera and Skillshare, mentorship, and internal career opportunities.
Extra vacation days, sick leave, special-occasion leave, and parenting leave.
Premium private health insurance available in Lithuania and Poland.
Free Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic subscriptions, plus resilience and mindfulness training.
In-house gyms, Multisport and Urban Sport cards, online workouts, and physical well-being support.
Company workation opportunities.
Ability to work from different locations.
Gifts for birthdays, work anniversaries, weddings, and new family members.
Summer camps for children and flexible working arrangements for parents.
Team-building activities and company events.
Access to Nord Security's Vilnius headquarters and its facilities.