Avast

Associate Creative Director, Design

Avast$90K — $130K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience as a brand designer or in a related role at the senior level
  • Proven portfolio showcasing exceptional design craft and conceptual thinking for major brands
  • Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, particularly in scalable design systems
  • Strong instincts in art direction covering photography, typography, and visual storytelling
  • Experience with AI tools in the creative process
  • Ability to work autonomously and proactively, moving projects forward independently
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback

Responsibilities

  • Create high-quality design across a range of branding and digital projects
  • Translate strategic brand concepts into distinct visual executions
  • Act as a senior designer on key initiatives through all design stages
  • Collaborate with various teams to produce brand-relevant and business-focused work
  • Enhance studio quality through strong craftsmanship and creative judgment
  • Innovate using AI tools throughout the creative workflow
  • Maintain a keen eye on design trends and emerging tools

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at a high level on global brand initiatives
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on creativity and innovation
  • No team management responsibilities, allowing for focused design contribution
  • Access to advanced tools and resources for design and workflow enhancement
  • Encouragement for continuous learning especially in AI and digital design trends
Full Job Description
About the Role:

We're looking for a highly skilled, senior-level brand designer to join our Brand & Creative Studio as an Associate Creative Director. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with exceptional taste, deep craft, and the ability to move fluidly across brand systems, digital experiences, campaigns, social, content, and visual storytelling.

This person is not coming in to manage a team. They are coming in to make the work better.

You'll partner closely with creative leadership, brand, strategy, product, marketing, and cross-functional teams to bring ideas to life across a global portfolio of world-renowned brands. The ideal candidate is proactive, strategic, highly collaborative, and comfortable owning work from concept through execution. You should be able to think big, design beautifully, take feedback well, and push the work without ego.

What you'll do:

Create elevated, strategically grounded design across branding, campaigns, digital, social, presentations, content systems, and brand experiences.

Translate brand strategy into distinctive visual ideas, scalable systems, and polished creative executions.

Work as a senior hands-on designer across high-priority initiatives, moving between concept development, art direction, layout, typography, image-making, and final production.

Partner with creative directors, writers, strategists, marketers, and product teams to develop work that is both brand-building and business-relevant.

Help raise the quality bar across the studio through strong craft, thoughtful critique, and sharp creative judgment.

Use AI tools as part of the creative process - from exploration and ideation to image generation, editing, prototyping, production support, and workflow acceleration.

Bring a high level of visual taste to photography, illustration, motion, UI-inspired design, and campaign systems.

Stay close to emerging tools, design trends, platform behaviors, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

What you'll bring:

A portfolio that shows exceptional design craft, strong conceptual thinking, and work for prominent global brands or high-visibility clients.

Experience across brand identity, digital design, campaign systems, social, and integrated creative.

Strong art direction instincts, especially around photography, composition, typography, visual systems, and storytelling.

Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. Ideally including components, plugins, auto layout, and scalable design systems.

Comfort using or learning AI tools as part of the creative process.

A sharp eye for detail and a high bar for quality from first concept to final file.

The ability to work independently, anticipate needs, and move work forward without waiting for step-by-step direction.

A collaborative, low-ego approach; someone who can give and receive feedback well.

Motion experience is a plus, especially After Effects or similar tools.

Who you are:

You're a true designer at the ACD level: strategic, polished, fast, curious, and deeply invested in the craft. You know how to make work feel premium, clear, and ownable. You can zoom out to understand the larger brand system, then zoom in on the typography, crop, spacing, and details that make the work sing.

You don't need to be the loudest person in the room. But you do need to bring a point of view, push the work, and make the team better through the quality of your thinking and execution.

About Avast

Avast is a cybersecurity company that develops and markets security software for personal computers and mobile devices. The company's products include antivirus software, VPN services, and password management tools. Avast has over 435 million active users worldwide and is headquartered in London, England. The company was founded in 1988 and has offices in the Czech Republic, the United States, and other countries.
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1,700 employees
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1988

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