Senior Designer

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a skilled designer to strengthen our marketing output for a multibillion-dollar global tech brand. You’ll join a fast-growing team to create high-quality advertising seen by millions, partnering with Creative, Product Marketing, Content, and Growth.

With 3–8 years in visual design in advertising or tech, you’ll execute ideas quickly and precisely, balancing strong design fundamentals with curious, solution-focused thinking in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of visual design experience in advertising or tech.
• Portfolio showing strong design fundamentals and problem-solving.
• Ability to make assets work through photo manipulation.
• Curious, critical thinker with strong opinions on advertising.
• Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort with performance-based results in campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on designer collaborating with Creative leadership and Growth/Content teams.
• Create advertising assets from start to finish across production.
• Focus on advertising and performance marketing with potential to touch all creative outputs.
• Contribute ideas and help refine others’ ideas.
• Define growth marketing ad strategies and real-time experiments based on metrics.

Skills

Visual design

Advertising experience

Portfolio

Photo manipulation

Critical thinking

Autonomy

Performance-based mindset

Job description

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

Overview

Our team is looking for a skilled and passionate designer to help strengthen the quality of our marketing output—a unique opportunity to directly impact the success of a multibillion-dollar global tech brand.

As part of this fast-paced, fast-growing team, you’ll have an essential role in the creation of high-quality advertising that’ll be seen by millions. You’ll support multi-platform marketing campaigns, working cross-functionally with Creative, Product Marketing, Content, and Growth stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a natural creative problem solver with the ability to execute ideas quickly, thoughtfully, and with precision. Equal parts rock-solid design foundation and curious solution seeker.

Responsibilities

• A hands-on maker working closely with Creative leadership and the Growth & Content teams.
• Creating advertising assets from start to finish, including all aspects of the production process.
• Primarily focused on advertising and performance marketing with the opportunity to stretch across all aspects of creative output.
• You’ll collaborate on your own executional ideas, as well as helping refine and execute other’s ideas.
• A key contributor in helping define growth marketing related ad strategies and the real-time experimentation based on closely monitored performance metrics.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience in visual design within an advertising or tech environment.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design fundamentals and visual problem-solving abilities.
• You’re a design machine, able to ‘make assets work’ through clever photo manipulation and a crafty spirit.
• You’re curious and a critical thinker with strong opinions about advertising. You pay attention to what works, what doesn't, and why.
• Able to work effectively, and often autonomously, in a fast-paced environment with rapidly shifting priorities.
• Ability and mindset to create, iterate, and strategize on performance-based results.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$110,000 - $165,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.