[Hiring] Head of Design @Dataiku

Role Description

The world's most innovative companies are redefining how work gets done with AI. At Dataiku, we're helping lead that transformation, and how we show up in the market matters. We're looking for a Head of Design to shape the next chapter of the Dataiku brand.

This is more than managing a design team. It's an opportunity to define how one of the most innovative enterprise AI companies expresses itself across every experience, campaign, event, story, and interaction. You'll help determine how customers experience Dataiku, how prospects discover us, and how analysts, partners, investors, and employees experience our brand.

This role will help shape the next phase of our Design organization as we continue to grow, expanding capabilities, embracing new technologies, and ensuring design remains a strategic advantage for the business.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the VP of Brand & Corporate Marketing, you'll lead our global Design team and partner closely with:

• Brand
• Communications
• Product Marketing
• Growth Marketing
• Events
• Product
• Sales
• Customer Success
• Executive Leadership

What You'll Do

Shape How Dataiku Shows Up in the World:

• Continue to apply and evolve our recently refreshed global brand
• Maintain and expand our design system across marketing and corporate assets
• Ensure consistency across campaigns, digital experiences, events, presentations, web, social media, and customer communications
• Raise the overall quality and craft of everything we create

Lead a High-Performing Design Team:

• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team of designers
• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning
• Improve creative workflows and project intake
• Balance priorities across a fast-moving global business
• Support career development and coaching across the team

Partner Across Marketing:

• Collaborate closely with Brand, Communications, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing to develop creative that supports every stage of the customer journey
• Work across brand campaigns, product launches, digital advertising, paid social, account-based marketing, out-of-home campaigns, website experiences, customer marketing, executive presentations, sales enablement, research reports and ebooks, and social media

Bring the Brand to Life Through Experiences:

• Partner with our Events and Brand teams to create memorable brand experiences across Dataiku Succeed in the U.S. and Europe, industry conferences and sponsorships, pop-up hospitality experiences, executive keynote presentations, sales kickoff, internal company events, and customer and partner experiences

Continue Building Our Brand Experience:

• Explore opportunities to expand how customers and employees experience the Dataiku brand beyond traditional marketing
• Support initiatives such as branded merchandise collections, company store experiences, event merchandise, environmental branding, and creative standards across physical and digital experiences

Help Expand Video & Motion Capabilities:

• Provide creative direction across customer stories, customer testimonials, executive thought leadership, product launches, social media video, motion graphics, and event content

Embrace AI as a Creative Advantage:

• Champion the thoughtful adoption of AI-powered creative tools
• Help designers work more efficiently through modern workflows
• Evaluate emerging creative technologies
• Share best practices across the team
• Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement/development

Build Strong Creative Partnerships:

• Manage relationships with creative agencies, production partners, and freelancers that extend the capabilities of our internal team
• Determine the right balance between internal execution and external support while ensuring exceptional quality across every project

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional design experience
• 3–5+ years leading and managing creative teams
• Experience managing teams of at least five designers
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional corporate brand work
• Experience leading multidisciplinary design projects
• Expertise across digital, web, campaigns, events, presentations, and brand systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Marketing and the business
• This role requires to be based in the East Coast of the US

Preferred

• Experience in B2B enterprise software or technology
• Experience supporting high-growth organizations
• Experience partnering with Growth Marketing teams
• Experience managing agencies and freelance partners
• Interest in AI-powered creative tools and workflows
• Familiarity with motion design and video production workflows

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401k company match
• Paid vacations and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Employer paid disability coverage
• Additional health and wellbeing perks and benefits