ClickUp

United States

Lead Brand Designer at ClickUp

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted about 19 hours ago
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Company snapshot

ClickUp

ClickUp provides an all-in-one productivity platform that integrates tasks, documents, goals, and communication tools to enhance collaboration and efficiency for teams in various work environments.

B2B SAAS Mobile Technology
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1K-5K
Founded
2017
Funding raised
$539M

Quick Summary

Role Overview

You will serve as the single point of excellence for ClickUp's visual brand by setting standards and ensuring cohesive touchpoints. Your primary focus is building a design system that empowers AI tools and non-designers to produce world-class creative work autonomously.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the brand design system including tokens and patterns
  • Review and approve creative outputs from AI tools and external agencies
  • Create automation-friendly asset packages and component libraries for others
  • Design high-volume web assets and high-impact brand launch materials
  • Audit and rebuild the brand design system from incomplete foundations
  • Establish guardrails that ensure the company is never bottlenecked by design

Requirements Snapshot

  • Eight or more years of brand and visual design experience
  • Exceptional portfolio showing mastery of typography and systematic thinking
  • Active proficiency with AI design and AI-assisted coding tools
  • Experience building design systems that enable high-quality AI outputs
  • Ability to thrive as a sole designer making autonomous decisions

Expected Impact

You will transform ClickUp's visual identity by creating a scalable infrastructure where design excellence is accessible to the entire organization. Your work will ensure that every brand touchpoint remains world-class while leveraging AI to remove traditional production bottlenecks.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

Summary: You're the single point of excellence for ClickUp's visual brand. You set the standard and ensure every touchpoint (from landing pages to social to product marketing assets) feels cohesive and world-class. But here's what makes this different: you're building a design system that AI tools and non-designers can produce bar-raising creatives on their own with your infrastructure. You build the guardrails that make everyone else excellent and ensure the company is never bottlenecked by design.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Own, maintain, and evolve ClickUp's brand design system (tokens, components, patterns, guidelines), continuously elevating the aesthetic bar as the brand grows

  • Serve as quality gatekeeper: review and approve brand-facing creative produced by AI tools, vibe-coded outputs, and external agencies

  • Create and maintain design system documentation, templates, component libraries, and automation-friendly asset packages that enable others to produce on-brand work without design support

  • Design and ship high-volume web assets (landing pages, campaign pages, feature announcements) alongside high-impact brand moments like launches and keynotes

  • Audit and rebuild the brand design system from incomplete foundations, establishing documentation and structure where little currently exists

 

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of brand/visual design experience, with significant time owning or leading a design system

  • Exceptional portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, color, motion, and systematic thinking

  • Actively uses AI design tools (Midjourney, Firefly, Claude Design, Figma AI, etc.) and AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) in their current workflow, with light familiarity with GitHub.

  • Has built or adapted design systems specifically to enable high-quality AI-generated outputs at scale.

  • Experience building design systems used at scale, including templates, component libraries, and constraints that enable non-designers and AI tools to produce on-brand output consistently

  • Experience QA'ing and refining AI-generated design outputs; knows where AI breaks down and how to build guardrails

  • Thrives as the sole designer on a team, making high-quality decisions autonomously with AI and tooling as force multipliers

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Privacy Notice

ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can find further details by viewing our Global Candidate Privacy Notice.

If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, please also see our Philippine Data Privacy Notice for further details.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

Fraud Alert

ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @clickup.com email or through our official careers portal on clickup.com. We will never request fees, payments, or sensitive personal information. Please disregard any offers received outside these channels and report them to support@clickup.com.

AI Processing Notice

ClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications against role-related criteria. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision‑making. If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at AskPeople@ClickUp.com.

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