Senior Manager, Creative Director

MongoDB

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Creative Director leads MongoDB’s visual brand team and reports to the Director, Brand Marketing. The role owns creative vision, brand systems, and execution standards across campaigns, events, and digital experiences while managing and developing designers. The leader is expected to remain close to the craft while building effective team practices, stewarding the brand across the company, and applying AI to improve design systems and creative work. The position sets creative direction for high-impact brand initiatives, evolves the company’s visual systems, and guides event, environmental, and social creative. It also develops templates, documentation, and guidance so internal teams and external partners can apply the brand consistently. The role partners with teams across the business, manages agencies and contractors, plans capacity and budgets, and presents creative concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders. MongoDB is seeking candidates based in the United States for its hybrid working model. Applicants should submit a portfolio along with a resume. The posted U.S. base salary range is $0.01–$0.01 USD; compensation at offer depends on factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and work location.

Requirements

BFA or MA/MS in design, art and design, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
At least 8 years of design experience; ideally at least 2 years managing and developing designers.
Portfolio demonstrating event design, campaigns, layout, design systems, visual storytelling, and 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 in adopting them.
Experience managing agencies, contractors, and cross-functional creative projects within timelines and budgets.
Ability to influence and align stakeholders across functions and seniority levels.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting creative rationale to non-creative audiences.
Based in the United States for MongoDB’s hybrid working model.
Submit a portfolio in addition to a resume when applying.

Nice To Haves

At least 2 years of experience managing and developing designers.
Experience building brand and design systems for B2B, technology, or SaaS brands.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, coach, and grow the Brand Creative design team; set priorities, roles, and performance standards.
Set creative direction and lead concepting for high-impact brand campaigns and initiatives across print, digital, motion, and environmental applications.
Steward and evolve brand systems, including typography, iconography, logo, color, layout frameworks, the brand library, presentation templates, icons, and guidelines.
Identify ways AI tools can improve creative speed, quality, and possibility; establish guardrails and lead team adoption in everyday practice.
Direct creative for large-scale events and environmental design from concept through delivery, in partnership with Strategic Events.
Work with Social and Influencer Marketing to extend campaigns and events into platform-native content and provide creative guidance to creators and partners.
Contribute hands-on to concepts and key deliverables when needed, modeling the expected quality and taste.
Build templates, documentation, and guidance that help company teams and external partners apply the brand confidently and correctly, including beyond marketing.
Collaborate with Events, Social, Web, Customer Marketing, Product, Employee Experience, and Corporate Communications to maintain brand consistency.
Manage agencies, contractors, and specialty creative disciplines such as animation and illustration.
Prioritize competing requests, manage timelines and budgets, and identify resourcing risks early.
Present creative concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders and explain design decisions and constraints to creative and non-creative audiences.