Design Manager, Marketing
Fully Remote (Europe) | High-growth SaaS / Product-led Tech
Candidates must be based in the EU or UK.
We’re working with a fast-growing, product-led technology company that’s building an in-house creative studio with a very different brief: operate like a high-performing agency, not a traditional internal team.
They need a Marketing Design Manager to help scale the creative and operational engine behind the marketing function across campaigns, lifecycle, paid, CRM, social, product marketing and sales enablement.
This is not a pure brand role. It is also not a “make it look nice” role.
It sits at the intersection of marketing design, growth and lifecycle marketing, systems thinking and hands-on creative execution. The kind of role where you’re as proud of the workflow you built as the campaign that ran through it.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading marketing creative across paid, CRM/lifecycle, social, campaigns and sales enablement, while ensuring output stays consistently strong at pace
- Building scalable workflows, templates and modular systems that improve how creative gets produced, adapted and iterated
- Working closely with growth and performance teams to evolve creative based on testing, engagement and campaign data
- Helping prioritise and allocate creative output across the wider marketing design function
- Mentoring designers while remaining highly hands-on yourself
- Improving how the internal team operates as the business scales internationally
What they’re looking for
Someone who has genuinely operated inside a fast-moving startup or scale-up, not just visited one. You’ll know what it feels like when systems do not exist yet and you have to build them while the work keeps coming.
Beyond that:
- Strong hands-on craft across lifecycle, CRM, paid, social and multi-channel campaigns
- Real experience collaborating with growth, demand gen or performance marketing teams, not just sitting adjacent to them
- Strong operational and systems thinking: workflows, templates, scalable design infrastructure and creative velocity
- Commercial awareness and comfort inside performance-led environments where creative decisions are tested and iterated constantly
- Ability to bring structure and raise the bar without needing heavy direction or coaching
- Comfortable operating autonomously across growth, lifecycle, systems and cross-functional marketing execution
- Experience mentoring, guiding or leading designers within high-output environments
Ideal backgrounds
You’re probably currently operating as a:
- Marketing Design Lead
- Growth Design Lead
- Creative Lead
- Brand Systems Lead
- Marketing Design Manager
inside a high-growth SaaS, fintech or product-led environment.
The strongest candidates will usually come from companies where speed, experimentation and cross-functional collaboration are not aspirational values, they are simply how the business operates day-to-day.
The setup
- Fully remote across Europe
- Small, highly collaborative international team
- High autonomy and real influence on how the function develops
- Competitive salary and package depending on experience
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