Senior Manager, Creative Director

MongoDB Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Manager, Creative Director to lead the Brand Creative design team, shaping visual brand systems across campaigns, events, and digital experiences. This leader will ensure quality and consistency while guiding designers and expanding the team’s impact.

Based in the US with a hybrid working model, you will set creative direction, evolve brand guidelines, apply AI to design workflows, collaborate across functions, and steward brand enablement across the company and

Qualifications

• BFA or MA/MS in design, art and design, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of design experience, with 2+ years in people management.
• A portfolio showing event design, campaigns, layout, design systems, and visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Brand Creative design team with clear priorities and performance standards.
• Set creative direction for high-impact brand campaigns and scalable visual systems.
• Own and evolve brand systems including typography, iconography, logos, color, and layout frameworks.
• Lead AI and generative design efforts, establishing guardrails and integrating them into daily practice.
• Direct creative for large-scale brand moments (e.g., events) in partnership with Strategic Events.
• Bridge brand and social initiatives with clear guidance for creators and partners.
• Stay hands-on on core concepts and deliverables to model quality.
• Build brand enablement materials and templates for company-wide use.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure consistency of brand touchpoints.

Skills

Brand design leadership

Creative direction

Stakeholder influence

Team coaching

AI in design

Education

BFA or MA/MS in design

Tools

Adobe

Figma

Job description

The Senior Manager, Creative Director leads the team behind MongoDB's visual brand. Reporting to the Director, Brand Marketing, this leader owns the creative vision, brand systems, and execution standards that turn brand strategy into consistent, high-impact work across campaigns, events, and digital experiences, and leads the designers who deliver it.

This role is for a creative leader who is still close to the craft and ready to build how a brand design team operates: how concepts get made, how the brand is stewarded and enabled across the company, and how AI is applied to build and accelerate design systems and creative work. You will raise the bar for quality while growing the team's reach and impact.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in the US for our hybrid working model.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop the Brand Creative design team. Set priorities, define roles and performance standards, coach and grow designers at every level, and hold a consistent bar for craft and execution across every program
• Set creative direction. Own concepting and ideation for high-impact brand campaigns and initiatives, translating brand strategy into scalable visual systems across print, digital, motion, and environmental applications
• Own the brand systems. Steward and evolve typography, iconography, logo, color, and layout frameworks. Keep the brand library, presentation templates, icons, and brand guidelines accurate and up to date
• Lead AI and generative design. Identify where AI tools can improve speed, quality, and creative possibility. Set guardrails for how they are used on brand work, and lead the team in making them part of everyday practice
• Lead events and environmental design. Direct the creative for large-scale brand moments (e.g. .local, AWS re:Invent, SKO), from early concept through delivery, in close partnership with Strategic Events
• Bridge brand and social. Work with Social and Influencer Marketing to extend campaigns and events into platform-native content, with clear creative guidance for creators and partners
• Stay hands‑on. Roll up your sleeves on concepts and key deliverables when the work calls for it, and model the quality and taste you expect from the team
• Build brand enablement. Create the templates, documentation, and guidance that let teams across the company (and external partners) apply the brand confidently and correctly, including programs beyond marketing
• Partner across the business. Collaborate with Events, Social, Web, Customer Marketing, Product, Employee Experience, and Corporate Communications to keep every brand touchpoint consistent. Manage agencies, contractors, and specialty disciplines like animation and illustration
• Plan work and capacity. Prioritize across competing requests, manage timelines and budgets, and surface resourcing risk early so it never becomes a delivery problem
• Present and influence. Share creative concepts and rationale with senior stakeholders, and clearly explain design decisions and constraints to both creative and non-creative audiences

Qualifications

• BFA or MA/MS in design, art and design, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of design experience, ideally with 2+ years managing and developing designers
• A portfolio that shows event design, campaigns, layout, design systems, and visual storytelling, with clear examples of your creative direction
• Experience building and operationalizing brand and design systems, ideally for B2B, technology, or SaaS brands
• Experience directing environmental and event design for large-scale brand moments
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe and Figma systems, libraries, and scalable brand documentation
• Hands‑on experience applying AI and generative tools to creative workflows, and leading a team to adopt them
• Experience managing agencies, contractors, and cross‑functional creative projects within timelines and budgets
• Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across functions and seniority levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to present creative rationale to non-creative audiences

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req. ID: 3273592994

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender‑neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$123,000—$195,000 USD