Creative Design Lead

TryHackMe is the fastest-growing online cyber security training platform. Our mission is to make learning and teaching cyber security easier by providing gamified security exercises and challenges. Having only been around for handful of years, we've grown to more than 7 million community members and our growth isn't slowing down! 🥷

The Role

We’re looking for a Creative Design Lead to define and elevate the visual identity of TryHackMe across every touchpoint from product to brand, from B2B to B2C. This is a high-impact role for someone excited to shape how the world sees and experiences cyber security education.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, the role will involve owning and evolving TryHackMe’s visual design language. You will collaborate closely with growth, content, and product teams to ensure every design asset, whether it’s a social post, landing page, or pitch deck, feels cohesive, modern, and unmistakably TryHackMe.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own and build the TryHackMe design system and brand identity, ensuring it translates seamlessly across Product and Marketing surfaces

• Run creative operations: build and maintain production workflows, prioritise the team's backlog, manage capacity planning, and keep projects moving without bottlenecks

• Create and evolve templates for paid ads, social content, email, landing pages, and B2B sales materials

• Lead visual strategy for brand campaigns, product launches, and go-to-market moments

• Partner directly with Product and Marketing leadership to align visual design with user journeys, feature releases, and revenue goals

• Manage and develop two in-house creative designers, setting quality standards, running critiques, and building their skills

• Own the relationship with two external agencies (video and creative), including briefing, feedback cycles, timeline management, and performance evaluation

• Ensure brand consistency across all internal and external materials

• Evaluate and implement new tools or technologies to streamline creative production

Skills & Requirements

• Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

• Proven experience building and managing brand systems or design libraries at scale

• Strong portfolio showcasing clean, modern design with great taste across digital channels, we want to see range, from polished brand campaigns to scrappy growth assets

• Demonstrated project management skills: you have run creative workflows, managed competing priorities across multiple stakeholders, and shipped on time without sacrificing quality

• Experience managing direct reports and external agencies or freelancers, with a track record of elevating the work of the people around you

• Strong experience working cross-functionally with both Product and Marketing teams, you understand product thinking and commercial goals equally well

• A strategic thinker who can also execute hands-on when the moment calls for it

• Rive animation experience is a plus

• Startup or scale-up experience is a plus

• Experience in tech, edtech, or cyber security is a bonus

Benefits & Perks

💸 Salary - We hire across 35+ countries. We determine salaries based on Geographic Location, Seniority, Interview Performance, and Market Rates using leading compensation benchmarking tools.

🚣 100% Remote - In a fully digital world, work from anywhere you want!

🕒 Flexi Time - Choose your own hours as long as you have at least 4 hours of overlap with the UK timezone (from 8am - 6pm).

💻 Tools - a dedicated work laptop + any accessories you need to do your best work.

👕 Swag Pack - start your TryHackMe journey with a sought-after branded swag bundle!

💪 Personal Development - £2,500 training budget to acquire certifications, books and more.

⛱️ Company Retreat - an annual company retreat, fully paid for by us!

🧡 Health Insurance - if you're in a country that doesn't have public health care.

🍼 Enhanced Maternity & Paternity- an enhanced package on top of statutory requirements.

💸 401k / Pension - TryHackMe makes it easy to save money for your retirement.

🍕Lunch on us - whether you're a pizza-lover, salad obsessed or a big sushi fan, TryHackMe will cover the cost of your lunch order during our recurring company virtual lunches.

🎟 Free THM subscription for your circle - we know our platform can be transformative, and we want to extend that impact to your family and friends!

Our Hiring Process:

Stage One: Intro call with Talent Acquisition Team (30 mins)

Stage Two: Take-Home Task

Stage Three: Presentation of Take-Home Task to hiring manager

Stage Four: Final Interview with one of our Co-Founders (30 mins)

Please note that, at this time, we are unable to provide sponsorship

You can apply here or visit careers.tryhackme.com