Head of Design

The world's most innovative companies are redefining how work gets done with AI. At Dataiku, we're helping lead that transformation, and how we show up in the market matters.We're looking for a Head of Design to shape the next chapter of the Dataiku brand.

This is more than managing a design team. It's an opportunity to define how one of the most innovative enterprise AI companies expresses itself across every experience, campaign, event, story, and interaction.You'll help determine how customers experience Dataiku. How prospects discover us. How analysts, partners, investors, and employees experience our brand. How we create memorable moments on stage, online, in product, and in person.

Earlier this year, we introduced a refreshed Dataiku brand, modernizing our visual identity and positioning to reflect the next chapter of our company. Now we're looking for a creative leader who will continue bringing that brand to life consistently, thoughtfully, and boldly across every touchpoint.

This role will help shape the next phase of our Design organization as we continue to grow, expanding capabilities, embracing new technologies, and ensuring design remains a strategic advantage for the business.If you're excited about building teams, elevating brands, and exploring how AI can enhance creative work, we'd love to meet you.

Reporting to the VP of Brand & Corporate Marketing, you'll lead our global Design team and partner closely with Brand, Communications, Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Events, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership.

You'll balance strategic brand leadership with hands-on creative direction while helping evolve our Design organization - with members in the US and Europe - to support the next phase of Dataiku's growth.

You'll help ensure every expression of the Dataiku brand feels thoughtful, cohesive, modern, and unmistakably Dataiku.

This includes:

• Continuing to apply and evolve our recently refreshed global brand
• Maintaining and expanding our design system across marketing and corporate assets
• Ensuring consistency across campaigns, digital experiences, events, presentations, web, social media, and customer communications
• Raising the overall quality and craft of everything we create

You'll lead, mentor, and inspire a talented global team while helping create an environment where designers can do the best work of their careers.

You'll:

• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team of designers
• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning
• Improve creative workflows and project intake
• Balance priorities across a fast-moving global business
• Support career development and coaching across the team

You'll collaborate closely with Brand, Communications, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing to develop creative that supports every stage of the customer journey.

This includes work across:

• Brand campaigns
• Product launches
• Digital advertising
• Paid social
• Account-based marketing
• Out-of-home campaigns
• Website experiences
• Customer marketing
• Executive presentations
• Sales enablement
• Research reports and ebooks
• Social media

You'll help determine when work is best executed internally and when agency support is the right solution.

You'll partner with our Events and Brand teams to create memorable brand experiences across:

• Dataiku Succeed in the U.S. and Europe
• Industry conferences and sponsorships
• Pop-up hospitality experiences
• Executive keynote presentations
• Sales Kickoff
• Internal company events
• Customer and partner experiences

You'll explore opportunities to expand how customers and employees experience the Dataiku brand beyond traditional marketing.

This includes supporting initiatives such as:

• Branded merchandise collections
• Company store experiences
• Event merchandise
• Environmental branding
• Creative standards across physical and digital experiences

As video becomes increasingly important to our marketing strategy, you'll partner with Marketing leadership to help evolve our creative capabilities.

You'll provide creative direction across:

• Customer stories
• Customer testimonials
• Executive thought leadership
• Product launches
• Social media video
• Motion graphics
• Event content

You'll also help determine when projects should be produced internally versus through agency or freelance partners.

As an AI company, we believe great design and emerging technology go hand in hand.

We're looking for someone who is excited to explore how AI can improve creative workflows while preserving exceptional craft and thoughtful design.

You'll:

• Champion the thoughtful adoption of AI-powered creative tools
• Help designers work more efficiently through modern workflows
• Evaluate emerging creative technologies
• Share best practices across the team
• Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement/development

You'll manage relationships with creative agencies, production partners, and freelancers that extend the capabilities of our internal team.

You'll help determine the right balance between internal execution and external support while ensuring exceptional quality across every project.

• 10+ years of professional design experience
• 3-5+ years leading and managing creative teams
• Experience managing teams of at least five designers
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional corporate brand work
• Experience leading multidisciplinary design projects
• Expertise across digital, web, campaigns, events, presentations, and brand systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Marketing and the business
• This role requires to be based in the East Coast of the US

• Experience in B2B enterprise software or technology
• Experience supporting high-growth organizations
• Experience partnering with Growth Marketing teams
• Experience managing agencies and freelance partners
• Interest in AI-powered creative tools and workflows
• Familiarity with motion design and video production workflows

This is an opportunity to build on the momentum of our recent brand refresh and help shape how one of the world's leading enterprise AI companies is experienced across every touchpoint.

You'll lead an exceptional team, influence a globally recognized brand, and have the opportunity to grow the Design organization alongside a company that's redefining what's possible with AI.

We're looking for someone who is equally energized by beautiful craft, smart systems, emerging technology, and building an environment where great designers can do the best work of their careers.