Senior AI Creative Designer

Pantheon; United States; On-site; USD 116,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-competitive compensation and

Equity plan

Flexible time off and regional paidhol

Health and wellbeing benefits

Paid parental leave

Equipment and workspace support

Job summary

Pantheon is seeking a Senior Designer to shape how our brand shows up worldwide. You will translate strategy into distinctive creative across campaigns, events, product storytelling, and internal comms. This is hands-on, blending big-picture thinking with precise execution for a range of brand touchpoints.

You’ll collaborate with Brand, Marketing, Product, Digital, Sales, and executives to ensure a cohesive Pantheon brand while exploring AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency and quality.

Qualifications

• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual craft, typography, layout, art direction.
• Experience developing creative work from initial brief and concept through production.
• Ability to simplify complex information and communicate it through compelling visual storytelling.
• Strong understanding of brand systems and how to apply them consistently while evolving the creative expression.
• Experience across integrated campaigns, digital channels, presentations, events, and other brand touchpoints.

Responsibilities

• Translate brand strategy, campaign objectives, and audience insights into clear creative concepts and visual systems.
• Develop high-quality design work across digital, print, social, presentations, events, executive communications, sales enablement, and internal channels.
• Create and evolve campaign identities, art direction, layouts, illustrations, motion concepts, and supporting design assets.
• Partner with copywriters, strategists, marketers, event leads, and subject-matter experts to develop integrated creative work from brief through delivery.
• Help with the visual development of major brand moments, including global campaigns, product launches, customer stories, company events, and executive engagements.
• Design experiences that work across audiences, formats, markets, and channels while maintaining a coherent Pantheon brand.
• Present concepts and creative recommendations clearly, explain the thinking behind your work, and incorporate feedback with confidence and care.
• Manage multiple projects at different stages, balancing deadlines, quality, stakeholder needs, and available resources.
• Collaborate with external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and vendors when additional support is needed.
• Contribute to and improve Pantheon’s design systems, templates, asset libraries, workflows, and creative operations.
• Help raise the quality and consistency of design across the organisation through constructive critique, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Stay curious about emerging design practices, tools, technologies, and AI in creative work.
• Champion an AI-first approach to creative work by identifying and implementing AI tools to automate design tasks, streamline workflows, and improve efficiency.
• Explore emerging AI capabilities and design technologies to optimize creative processes and elevate the quality of brand work.

Skills

Brand design

Figma

Illustrator

After Effects

Photoshop

Portfolio

Conceptual thinking

Visual storytelling

Brand systems

Cross-functional collaboration

AI design tools

Tools

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

About Pantheon

Pantheon WebOps Platform powers the open web, running more than 300,000 sites in the cloud for customers including Google, Princeton, Salesloft and Doctors Without Borders. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers create, iterate, and scale WordPress and Drupal sites to reach billions of people globally. Pantheon’s multitenant, container-based platform enables organizations to manage all of their websites from a single dashboard. Organizations including Clorox and the United Nations drive results through accelerated development and real-time publishing using Pantheon’s collaborative workflows.

The Role

Pantheon is looking for a Senior Designer to help shape how our brand shows up across the world.

As a key member of the Brand and Creative team, you will turn strategy into clear, distinctive, and compelling creative work across campaigns, events, executive communications, product storytelling, digital experiences, sales enablement, and internal communications. You will help make Pantheon recognisable, relevant, and memorable for the developers, marketers, IT leaders, agencies, and organisations we serve.

This is a hands-on role for a designer who can move comfortably between big-picture thinking and precise execution. You will bring strong visual judgement, thoughtful craft, and an understanding of how design supports brand perception, audience engagement, and business goals. You will work closely with Brand, Marketing, Events, Product Marketing, Digital, Sales, and executive stakeholders to create work that is both creatively ambitious and effective.

Location Preference: We’re prioritizing candidates based in the UK, Ireland, or the US Eastern time zone.

What You’ll Do

• Translate brand strategy, campaign objectives, and audience insights into clear creative concepts and visual systems.
• Develop high-quality design work across digital, print, social, presentations, events, executive communications, sales enablement, and internal channels.
• Create and evolve campaign identities, art direction, layouts, illustrations, motion concepts, and supporting design assets.
• Partner with copywriters, strategists, marketers, event leads, and subject-matter experts to develop integrated creative work from brief through delivery.
• Help with the visual development of major brand moments, including global campaigns, product launches, customer stories, company events, and executive engagements.
• Design experiences that work across audiences, formats, markets, and channels while maintaining a coherent Pantheon brand.
• Bring fresh ideas, references, and perspectives to the team, while knowing when to build from established systems and guidelines.
• Present concepts and creative recommendations clearly, explain the thinking behind your work, and incorporate feedback with confidence and care.
• Manage multiple projects at different stages, balancing deadlines, quality, stakeholder needs, and available resources.
• Collaborate with external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and vendors when additional support is needed.
• Contribute to and improve Pantheon’s design systems, templates, asset libraries, workflows, and creative operations.
• Help raise the quality and consistency of design across the organisation through constructive critique, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Stay curious about emerging design practices, tools, technologies, and responsible uses of AI in creative work.
• Champion an AI-first approach to creative work by identifying and implementing AI tools to automate design tasks, streamline workflows, and improve efficiency.
• Explore emerging AI capabilities and design technologies to optimize creative processes and elevate the quality of brand work.

How Success Is Measured

Your success will be evaluated through a balanced view of:

• The quality, originality, and effectiveness of the creative work you deliver.
• Consistent and thoughtful application of Pantheon’s brand across channels, markets, and experiences.
• The ability to turn complex ideas, products, and business priorities into clear and compelling visual communication.
• Strong partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and the ability to build alignment around creative decisions.
• Reliable project ownership, prioritisation, communication, and delivery against agreed timelines.
• Contribution to reusable systems, templates, processes, and assets that help the wider organisation work more effectively.
• The impact of your work on audience engagement, campaign performance, event experiences, executive communication, and brand perception.
• Contribution to a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing creative culture.

What You Bring

• Significant experience as a designer in a brand, creative, marketing, agency, or in-house environment.
• Proficiency with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Photoshop.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual craft, typography, layout, art direction, and execution across multiple formats.
• Experience developing creative work from initial brief and concept through production and final delivery.
• The ability to simplify complex information and communicate it through compelling visual storytelling.
• Strong understanding of brand systems and how to apply them consistently while continuing to evolve the creative expression.
• Experience working across integrated campaigns, digital channels, presentations, events, and other brand touchpoints.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to explain design decisions to both creative and non-creative audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and the judgement to navigate differing perspectives, feedback, and competing priorities.
• Excellent organisation, attention to detail, and the ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Comfort working in a distributed, cross-functional, and fast-moving environment.
• Experience with relevant design and collaboration tools, such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, presentation software, and digital asset-management platforms.
• A pragmatic, curious, and solutions-oriented approach, with a high bar for quality and a willingness to get hands-on.
• Experience leveraging AI-powered design tools to streamline creative workflows, automate processes, and improve efficiency.
• A forward-thinking approach to design, with curiosity and a willingness to explore new tools and technologies to improve the creative process.

You’ll Stand Out If You Have

• Experience designing for a B2B technology, SaaS, developer, infrastructure, WebOps, or open-source audience.
• Experience creating brand systems or campaigns that work across global markets and different cultural contexts.
• Experience with motion design, video, animation, illustration, 3D, or other complementary creative disciplines.
• Experience designing for large-scale events, executive experiences, customer engagements, or physical environments.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders or executive communications teams.
• Experience working with agencies, freelancers, production teams, and external creative partners.
• Experience using AI-enabled creative tools thoughtfully, with appropriate attention to accuracy, originality, privacy, copyright, and brand integrity.
• A strong interest in how technology, design, and the open web can help organisations do more meaningful work.

Growth at Pantheon

We want this role to build durable creative, strategic, and leadership skills—not just deliver individual projects.

You will have opportunities to deepen your craft, influence Pantheon’s creative direction, shape scalable design systems, lead significant brand moments, and build strong partnerships across the business. As you demonstrate impact and grow your scope, future opportunities may include leading larger creative programmes, mentoring designers, managing external creative partners, or progressing into creative direction and design leadership.

Progression is based on demonstrated capability, business needs, and sustained performance.

What We Offer

We offer an environment where talented people can do meaningful work with thoughtful, collaborative colleagues around the world.

Depending on location and employment arrangement, our regional offering may include:

• Industry-competitive compensation and equity plan.
• Flexible time off and regional paid holidays.
• Comprehensive regional health and wellbeing benefits.
• Paid parental leave and family-support benefits.
• Access to equipment and workspace support where available.
• Allowances and learning opportunities that support wellbeing and continued development.
• Team-based and company-wide events and activities that inspire, educate, and connect us.

The base salary for this position is $129,000.00 – $161,200.00 annually for employees based in San Francisco and New York, $115,900.00 – $144,900.00 annually for all other U.S. locations, £61,600.00 – £77,000.00 for employees based in the UK, and €66,900.00 – €83,600.00 for employees based in Ireland. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including role scope, relevant experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a performance bonus and equity.

Pantheon is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law. Pantheon complies with federal and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process, please contact [e-mail]. Pursuant to local and federal regulations, Pantheon will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

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