Web Design Manager

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

2d•$305,000 - $385,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As Web Design Manager at Anthropic, you will lead the enterprise web design team responsible for how businesses experience Anthropic online. You will set the craft standard, shape design direction for the company’s enterprise web presence, and build a team that produces high-quality work. The role owns the enterprise web design practice, including setting priorities, guiding projects from brief to launch, and ensuring visual quality, storytelling, clarity, and performance. It calls for strong art direction across imagery, typography, motion, and composition to make complex technical products clear, distinctive, and trustworthy. You will work closely with enterprise marketing on priorities, messaging, and launches, and collaborate with web engineering, web strategy and growth, brand and creative, sales and customer teams, product, and external agency partners. You will also partner with SEO, analytics, and growth teams to assess performance, run experiments, and improve conversion while keeping creative judgment central.

Requirements

Deep web design experience, including direct management of web or creative designers.
A portfolio of shipped web work demonstrating strong craft, storytelling, and a clear point of view.
Strong art direction skills and a sharp eye for detail, with experience directing visual concepts from idea to polished execution.
Ability to shape narrative and pacing across a page or campaign so design carries the message.
Experience designing complex, multi-audience websites at scale, ideally for technical or enterprise products.
Ability to turn complicated products into distinctive pages that convert.
Ability to maintain a high bar on tight timelines and make smart tradeoffs under pressure.
Ability to work effectively with marketing partners, translate requests into direction, and push back with clarity and care.
Understanding of web performance and effective use of data and experiments without allowing metrics to replace creative judgment.
Enjoyment of building teams, giving direct feedback, and helping designers grow.
Ability to explain design decisions simply to cross-functional stakeholders.
Excitement about Anthropic's mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial.
Minimum education: a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Minimum years of experience will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Nice To Haves

Experience at companies known for exceptional web craft on technical products.
Familiarity with enterprise buyer journeys and designing paths to conversion.
Experience partnering with SEO, analytics, and growth teams on experimentation programs.
A background working closely with engineers on design systems, performance, and implementation quality.
Experience managing agencies or external design partners on large web initiatives.
Strong writing or content design sensibility that strengthens on-page storytelling.
Experience setting design direction during periods of rapid company growth.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the enterprise web design team, including hiring, coaching, feedback, and career growth.
Own the craft standard for enterprise web design, ensuring pages are distinctive, clear, and performant.
Set team priorities and ways of working in partnership with marketing and design leadership.
Guide projects from brief to launch, translating marketing requests into clear creative direction.
Provide hands-on art direction across imagery, illustration, typography, motion, and layout.
Coach designers on craft and visual storytelling with specific, actionable feedback.
Partner with campaign, product, and segment marketers on messaging, launches, and day-to-day priorities.
Develop design direction for the next stage of Anthropic's enterprise web presence in support of company goals.
Partner with web engineering to ensure designs ship with high quality and strong performance.
Collaborate with SEO, analytics, and growth partners to measure results, run experiments, and improve conversion.
Present design work and rationale to stakeholders, explain decisions clearly, and push back when needed.
Build consistency across channels with brand, creative, and copy teams.
Manage external agencies and design partners on larger web projects.
Track shipped work's performance and use data to inform, but not replace, creative judgment.