Senior Marketing Designer

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$144K/yr – $231K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual storytelling for Axon by shaping brand campaigns, product launches, and live-event experiences with scalable design systems and a clear creative voice.

  • Brand and experiential design: build visual identities, style frames, and environmental elements that translate from screens to physical spaces and scale for events.
  • Motion and asset direction: lead motion graphics, video, and stage graphics while ensuring craft stays aligned with the brand vision.
  • AI-enabled workflow: leverage AI tools to accelerate concepting and iteration while maintaining brand integrity and production quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept and execute design across brand campaigns, product launches, sales enablement materials, executive presentations, and social content
  • Develop visual systems, style frames, and design languages that can scale across multiple formats and channels
  • Translate strategic briefs into compelling creative executions that are on-brand, on-message, and visually distinctive
  • Bring original creative angles to projects, not just executions of what has been asked for
  • Design visual identity and environmental design elements for trade shows, conferences, and live brand activations including Axon's annual Accelerate conference and major industry events such as IACP
  • Create booth concepts, signage systems, stage graphics, display materials, and event collateral that deliver a cohesive brand experience at scale
  • Develop design frameworks that can be handed off to fabrication vendors and production partners with clarity and precision
  • Collaborate with internal video and event teams to ensure design and production are visually aligned across every touchpoint
  • Design static elements, style frames, and visual systems that establish the creative direction for motion graphics, video, and animation
  • Art direct motion designers and video editors to ensure the final output reflects the intended design vision

Requirements

  • 5 to 7 years of experience as an Art Director or Senior Designer in a brand, agency, or in-house creative environment
  • A portfolio that demonstrates range across campaign creative, brand design, event and experiential work, and digital content
  • Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
  • Deep working knowledge of AI creative tools including Adobe Firefly and AI image and video generation platforms
  • Strong understanding of environmental and experiential design, including how design translates from screen to physical space
  • Ability to develop visual systems and style frames that direct motion and multimedia executions
  • Entrepreneurial creative instincts: you bring ideas to the table, not just executions
  • Comfortable operating in both a directed and self-directed capacity depending on project needs

Preferred

  • Experience designing for B2B, government, public safety, or technology brands
  • Background in large-scale event or trade show design
  • Familiarity with Figma for collaborative design and handoff workflows
  • Experience art directing photo and video shoots
  • Working knowledge of motion design principles and basic After Effects proficiency

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
  • Discretionary paid time off
  • Paid parental leave for all
  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans
  • Fitness Programs
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Axon

Our story began in September of 1993 when TASER International was founded by CEO Rick Smith with his brother Tom Smith. They consulted with Jack Cover, former NASA scientist and inventor of the original TASER® conducted energy weapons of the 1970s. Rick Smith was inspired to found the company after losing two high school football teammates who were shot and killed in a road rage incident. This experience led him to seek new technologies that would enable people to protect themselves without deploying lethal force in hopes of creating a bullet-less world.Today, Axon represents the entire network of devices, applications and people that is revolutionizing public safety around the world. Our mission is to protect life. We’re building the world’s largest and most trusted suite of public safety solutions. If you are seeking a career with purpose, we invite you to join us.Learn more at: axon.com/careersThis is Our MoonshotGun-related deaths between police and the public have risen steadily for at least the past six years. In 2021 in the U.S., 1,118 people — 1,054 civilians and 64 officers — lost their lives in gun-related incidents between police and the public, according to leading data sources. In response, Axon is rallying partners around a “moonshot” goal to cut gun-related deaths between police and the public by 50% by 2033.

Founded in 1993
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
5.3K employees (221 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
405.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50%
Direct
42.2%
Referral
5.6%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
118 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

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