Digital/Product Designer (Brand)

Cloudsmith; Belfast; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous annual leave

Professional development budget

Job summary

Cloudsmith, based in Belfast, is looking for a talented web/digital designer. In this role, you'll collaborate with the Brand team to create engaging online experiences, develop new design components, and enhance existing pages on their website. Ideal candidates will possess over 3 years of digital design experience, strong skills in tools like Figma, and a creative mindset aimed at effective online communication. Enjoy benefits like a competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare coverage, and a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant digital design experience in a tech or agency environment.
• Excellent portfolio of digital design work demonstrating web/digital design.
• Strong fundamental design skills including layout, typography, and colour.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative concepts in response to business problems.
• Design new components and interactive experiences for the website.
• Continuously improve existing pages and components on the website.

Skills

Digital design experience

Figma expertise

Strong design fundamentals

Prototyping abilities

Job description

TL;DR: We're seeking a creative, energetic and highly skilled web/digital designer to help us create wonderful, attention-grabbing online experiences.

About Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith is transforming how organizations handle software artifacts and secure their supply chains. As a fully managed multi‑tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, we enable organizations to build software better, through best‑in‑class artifact management and software supply chain security. Our vision is to become the software supply chain itself, powering the future of software delivery.

We are the world's most potent artifact management platform, built by developers for developers. Our platform supports over 30 formats spanning languages, container formats, and operating systems, with enterprise‑grade features, including vulnerability and security scanning, world‑class policy management and enforcement, and web‑scale to handle the Fortune 500. Organizations integrate Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure into their development, deployment, and distribution pipelines, trusting us to protect and accelerate, no matter the scale.

Backed by top‑tier investors and on a trajectory toward IPO and beyond, we're building mission‑critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organizations worldwide. We operate at the cutting edge of cloud‑native technology, tackling complex distributed systems challenges that directly impact millions of developers. Now is an exciting time to join us as we revolutionize how organizations deliver and secure software and help write the next chapter of our rocketship growth story.

The Role

As a web/digital designer, you’ll work as part of our Brand team, and report to our Principal Brand Designer, Alison Newman. Working with Alison, you’ll design a stream of improvements and new experiences for our website, Cloudsmith.com. You’ll design new atoms, components, blocks and pages to solve specific challenges, and you’ll craft entire new experiences (engaging technology stories, interactive tools) to meet wider brand and communication objectives. We place a premium on how we look and feel online, especially on our website, and this is a chance to fundamentally influence how we meet our target customers.

Key Responsibilities

Concept Development

• You’ll develop creative concepts in response to business problems; taking input from the brand team, sales team, marketing team - then developing ideas for our website
• You’ll take content – e.g. written materials – and develop creative solutions to communicating that content online
• You’ll critically evaluate and develop the best of your ideas with input from the brand and wider design teams
• You’ll work in support of other functions in the business; marketing, sales, product – who need our website to be successful; publishing content, communicating key messages, describing product benefits

Digital Design

• You’ll design new components, pages, interactive experiences for our website – Cloudsmith.com
• You’ll design standalone micro‑sites and once‑off online tools to help meet specific brand or commercial objectives
• You’ll design for our social media channels, helping to bring wider attention to Cloudsmith
• You’ll be the go‑to digital designer when the brand team want to create a novel online experience

Design Systems, Continuous Improvement

• Continuous improvement – look for ways to improve existing pages, blocks, components, experiences on our website
• Design system – maintain and extend our website design system to cater for new use cases and experiences
• You’ll help us to keep the website in line with other online touchpoints like our web application (app.cloudsmith.com), documentation website (docs.cloudsmith.com) – through regular collaboration and interaction with other teams

Essential Skills

Required Experience, Qualities & Skills

• 3+ years of relevant digital design experience working in‑house at a technology or digital product company, or relevant agency experience
• An excellent portfolio of digital design work demonstrating web/digital design, interactive design; preferably work that’s online we can look at and interact with
• Strong fundamental design skills; layout, typography, colour, illustration
• Advanced skills in Figma; essential design skills, incorporating design systems/libraries, working with variables
• Ability to work hands‑on with web developers to support translation of design to working builds
• A very strong understanding of what can and can’t be built for the browser; and the ability to work within realistic technical constraints
• Some hands‑on prototyping abilities in html, css, js is desirable, even if supported by AI (Claude etc.)

Cultural Values We're Looking For

• Collaborative, collaborate, collaborate; you’ll be working as part of a team, and you need to know how to work as part of a creative team
• Think creatively; identifying novel/fun/interesting solutions to problems and challenges
• Think commercially; understand the underlying drivers behind design; desired business outcomes, user needs, technical constraints
• Deliver consistently; designs great solutions to problems over and over again
• Deliver efficiently; takes the right amount of time to get to the solution, but no more
• Communicate effectively; as a remote‑first company we value writing as a core skill, and effective in‑person communication from when we get together

Impact & Opportunity

This role offers the chance to work in a fast paced environment with lots to learn, and many creative problems to solve. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, your work will directly impact how organizations get to know and love Cloudsmith.

Benefits, Location & Work Environment

You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.

Headlines

• A position based in Ireland or the United Kingdom.
• A competitive compensation package, including equity.
• With comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Plus, generous annual leave and flexible working policies to suit your lifestyle.
• Including a professional development budget for conferences and training.
• In a dynamic, innovative, trust‑centric, and supportive work environment.
• With the opportunity to shape a fast‑growing Series C startup (and beyond).

Health and Wellness

Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer health and wellbeing benefits along with flexible family‑friendly working policies.

Personal Growth

You will have an enormous opportunity to learn new skills alongside your colleagues, and your continued professional development is essential to us because it's important to you. We will support you with budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.

Facilities

Cloudsmith is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with fully‑equipped office space that’s open 24x7. We use our H.Q. regularly for activities like working sessions, team planning, meets and greets, and sometimes other group activities (like games!). We also hold all‑hands offsites in Belfast twice yearly, with guest speakers and team activities. Many Cloudsmithers work remotely, so we rely on our online collaboration tools; Slack, Google Docs, Linear, and other popular collaboration tools are how we work.

About Equal Opportunity

Cloudsmith is an equal‑opportunity employer proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnic groups. We do not discriminate on age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within our workforce.

The Final Word

We're looking for someone who can balance creativity with high‑quality execution and is fearless in rolling up their sleeves when needed. We want to hear from you if you're excited to shape how an emerging global technology brand looks, sounds, communicates online.