Senior Manager, Programs & Event Design
About The Position
Snowflake is seeking a hands-on design leader for its Brand Design team to drive events, campaigns, and programs that bring the brand to life. The role combines high-level creative direction and design craft, taking concepts from initial exploration through production-ready deliverables while guiding a small and growing team of designers. Work includes event identities and design systems, keynote and stage environments, booths and activations, signage and print, digital promotional banners, and campaign artwork that can be adapted consistently across outputs. The successful candidate is collaborative, adaptable, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing projects in a fast-paced environment. They will work with internal and external partners, present and explain design decisions to stakeholders, and collaborate broadly across Brand & Creative and marketing teams. The role is based in a hybrid arrangement with three dedicated office days in Menlo Park and/or Dublin, California, and reports into the Brand Design function. Employees are expected to follow company confidentiality and data-security standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of creative design experience at an agency, design studio, or internal marketing team.
- Conceptual design thinking skills, including the ability to develop concepts and original graphics and prepare designs as production-ready files.
- Deep understanding of design theory and strong visual storytelling skills across color, imagery, typography, and composition.
- Experience designing large-scale live events, including stages, environments, and booths.
- Demonstrated impact in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects, meeting deadlines, and maintaining high-quality design output.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with teams and stakeholders to meet deadlines.
- Detail-oriented approach and ability to create pixel-perfect, simple, elegant solutions to complex design problems.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Comfort adopting new technologies and technical inclination.
- Online portfolio and ability to clearly discuss one's role on each project.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Art, Graphic Design, Marketing Communications, or a similar discipline; suitable combinations of education, experience, or training will also be accepted.
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and After Effects, as well as Figma and PowerPoint.
- Experience using AI-assisted design workflows to accelerate production, such as resizing, versioning, and creating banner variants.
- Experience with Wrike, Canva, or Workfront.
- More than 10 years of experience in the creative design field.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of Brand Designers.
- Work with creative partners to develop concepts and designs for execution across channels, ensuring deliverables are on time and on brief.
- Collaborate across marketing with copywriters and demand generation, field, events, content, customer, and product marketing teams to develop ideas that engage customers and prospects and drive purchase intent.
- Deliver a range of go-to-market projects, including demand generation and product marketing assets, landing pages, infographics, guides and eBooks, social campaigns, event spaces, sales tools, partnerships, and advertising.
- Develop and oversee digital and print design projects from concept through delivery, ensuring they follow design principles, best practices, corporate standards, and brand guidelines.
- Accomplish project goals for visual design, brand strategy, and user experience.
- Stay current on industry trends and inform creative partners about digital processes, technologies, trends, and opportunities for a seamless customer experience.
- Identify and implement design-process efficiencies using in-house AI tools.
- Create and guide event identities, design systems, keynote and stage environments, booths, activations, signage, print materials, digital promotional banners, and campaign artwork.
- Manage projects in a timely manner, work with internal and external partners, and present work and explain design thinking to stakeholders.
- Follow company confidentiality and security standards when handling sensitive and customer data.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
