Responsibilities

• Lead the completion and global application of Vanta’s brand refresh across campaigns, web, advertising, events, decks, video, product launches, and other brand surfaces.
• Set and maintain a high creative bar across visual systems and applications, making the final call on how copy and design come together in the team’s recommendations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a nine-person creative team spanning campaigns, web, production, motion, and brand design.
• Build a reliable creative operating model, including intake, briefing, prioritization, capacity planning, project communication, and quality review.
• Partner with Brand Strategy and Voice, Comms, Growth, Product Marketing, Web, Events, Product Design, and other stakeholders to turn complex narratives into compelling creative work.
• Guide the team through focused creative sprints for major campaigns and brand moments, balancing ambitious ideas with practical delivery constraints.
• Bring broad cultural and creative perspective to Vanta’s work and help the team explore new creative territory.
• Use agency and external partners selectively to extend the team’s capabilities while maintaining a clear in-house point of view.
• Shape the long-term structure, capabilities, and talent plan for the creative organization.
• Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how your team operates and delivers results.

Requirements

• You have a strong design-led background and a portfolio that demonstrates both excellent personal creative work and an even stronger record of work led through other designers and creative teams.
• You have meaningful in-house experience, ideally within a SaaS or technology company serving a B2B audience.
• You have experience creating thoughtful integration between product and brand experiences.
• You can translate complex products and narratives into compelling, consumer-grade creative.
• You have led and developed senior creative talent through mentorship, actionable feedback, and clear standards without micromanaging.
• You have built creative systems and processes from scratch, then improved them over time.
• You bring strong operational judgment across intake, prioritization, capacity planning, timelines, stakeholder communication, and delivery.
• You build trust quickly with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly when priorities or timelines change.
• You are highly collaborative, low ego, and able to improvise under constrained timelines or changing priorities.
• You have agency experience or another source of broad creative perspective that helps you rapidly immerse yourself in new problems and raise the ambition of the work.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays