Senior Brand Designer

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Aperture Cloud is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company! Senior Visual Designer (Contract position) About the Role: As a Senior Visual Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and elevating the visual identity of Aperture Cloud across all marketing touchpoints. You will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and executing high-impact campaigns across a wide range of mediums—from digital and print to video. This requires a strategic mindset, exceptional design skills, and deep expertise in translating complex B2B SaaS cybersecurity narratives into compelling, accessible visual stories. Beyond hands-on design execution, you will have the exciting opportunity to pioneer the use of AI-driven design tools within our team. By developing a brand-safe, self-service creative model, you will empower non-designers across the marketing organization to generate standard assets. Key Responsibilities Cross-Medium Visual Design & Brand Identity: Lead the visual execution of integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive and premium brand experience across web, social media, email, print collateral, and event environments. Evolve and maintain the Aperture Cloud design system and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and scalability across global marketing teams. Design engaging data visualizations, infographics, and technical diagrams that distill complex cybersecurity concepts and threat research into easily digestible formats. AI Integration & Self-Service Enablement: Champion the implementation of AI design tools (e.g., Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, etc.) into daily creative workflows to increase efficiency. Develop and manage a "self-service" design program, establishing clear, brand-safe boundaries, templates, and AI guidelines that empower marketing teammates to independently generate standard visual assets. Train, uplevel, and support non-creative marketing staff on how to effectively and safely use these tools while maintaining strict brand integrity. Project & Agency Management: Act as the lead project manager for high-priority creative campaigns, effectively managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment. Oversee and direct external design agencies, freelance partners, and video production vendors, ensuring their output aligns with our brand standards, budgets, and business goals. Video Production & Editing: Drive the production of video content, including storyboarding, art direction, and video editing for social media, website assets, product explainers, and corporate presentations. Manage video libraries, templates, and raw assets to empower the broader marketing team to leverage video effectively. What You'll Bring Minimum Requirements: 8+ years of experience in visual design, art direction, or a similar creative role, with significant experience in a B2B SaaS environment (Cybersecurity industry experience is highly preferred). Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop) and UI/UX digital design tools like Figma. A robust portfolio showcasing a breadth of work across multiple mediums, with specific examples of B2B marketing campaigns, data visualization, and video editing/production. Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience managing creative workflows, external agencies, and freelance talent. Proven experience or a strong, demonstrated interest in integrating AI creative tools into professional design workflows to optimize production times. Proven ability to take highly technical information and translate it into clean, modern, and engaging visual layouts and diagrams. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions, evangelize new AI workflows, and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications: Experience doing creative work for high-growth, enterprise SaaS companies targeting C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs). Background in creating impactful creative for large-scale physical events and trade shows (e.g., Black Hat, RSA). Familiarity with web design principles, HTML/CSS, and working alongside web developers. Why should you join Aperture Cloud? Aperture Cloud employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers. Want more info? Blog & Podcast: Learn everything you want to know (and maybe some things you’d rather not know) about the world of cyber threat intelligence Linkedin, Instagram & Twitter: What’s happening at Aperture Cloud The Record: The Record is a cybersecurity news publication that explores th