Lead Graphic Designer

The role

You will set the creative bar for the NordVPN Product Squad and support the Nord Security umbrella brand. The role is 70% hands-on craft and 30% leadership, involving coaching, mentoring, and driving visual strategies for web, mobile, and video assets.

What you will do

• Set visual quality and creative bar across web, mobile, in-app, and video content.
• Guide designers through coaching, critique, and setting benchmarks.
• Take responsibility for the creative quality of the squad's output.
• Collaborate with the Brand Design Lead on global brand consistency.
• Turn marketing objectives into visual narratives for web, app stores, and video.
• Build production conditions including file systems, Figma tooling, and handoff patterns.
• Execute high-stakes work for landing pages, mobile asset frameworks, and video pipelines.
• Integrate generative AI tools into the squad's daily craft.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in marketing design, branding, or creative agencies
• Experience leading or mentoring designers, formally or informally
• Strong visual design and art direction skills
• Portfolio demonstrating refined craft and conceptual depth
• Ability to navigate tension between brand consistency and performance outcomes
• Working fluency with generative AI tools
• Strong understanding of brand systems and multi-channel design
• Excellent written and verbal English skills

Nice to have

• Experience working with photography, photo editing, or compositing
• Illustration skills or experience guiding illustration styles
• Experience designing AI-assisted creative workflows for a team
• Understanding of 3D visuals or collaboration with 3D designers
• Experience working with large-scale or global brands
• Knowledge of the digital product environment

Benefits

• Training, mentorship, and room to grow
• Extra vacation days, sick days, and time off
• Private health insurance in Lithuania and Poland
• Free subscriptions to Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic
• Resilience and mindfulness trainings
• In-house gyms, sport cards, online workouts, and personal guidance
• Company-wide trip abroad
• Gifts for birthdays, weddings, and new family members
• Children's summer camps and schedule flexibility
• Team building and company events
• Access to coffee bar, open gyms, kids' room, music room, and massage chairs in Vilnius HQ

About the company

Nord Security is a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity. They build a comprehensive ecosystem of digital privacy and security tools including NordVPN.