Brand Design System Lead - AI-Driven Creative Architect

ClickUp; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a senior brand designer to own and evolve our visual brand and design system, including tokens, components, and guidelines. You will enable AI-driven outputs at scale and set guardrails so non-designers and AI tools produce on-brand work.

You will build documentation, templates, and asset packages, ship high-volume web assets, and maintain consistency across landing pages, campaigns, and product marketing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of brand/visual design experience with leadership of a design system.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating typography, layout, color, motion, and systematic thinking.
• Active use of AI design tools (Midjourney, Firefly, Claude Design, Figma AI) and AI-assisted coding tools with light GitHub familiarity.
• Experience building design systems that enable AI-generated outputs at scale.
• Experience QA'ing and refining AI-generated design outputs and setting guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and evolve ClickUp's brand design system (tokens, components, patterns, guidelines).
• Serve as quality gatekeeper for brand-facing creative produced by AI tools and external agencies.
• Create and maintain design system documentation, templates, component libraries, and assets for on-brand work.
• Design and ship high-volume web assets (landing pages, campaign pages, feature announcements).
• Audit and rebuild the design system from incomplete foundations, establishing documentation and structure.

Skills

Brand design

Design systems

AI fluency

Typography & layout

Autonomous decision-making

Tools

Midjourney

Firefly

Claude Design

Figma AI

Cursor

GitHub

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a senior brand designer to own and evolve our visual brand and design system, including tokens, components, and guidelines. You will enable AI-driven outputs at scale and set guardrails so non-designers and AI tools produce on-brand work.

You will build documentation, templates, and asset packages, ship high-volume web assets, and maintain consistency across landing pages, campaigns, and product marketing.