The role involves owning and evolving ClickUp's brand design system, serving as quality gatekeeper for brand-facing creative produced by AI tools and agencies, and designing high-volume web assets alongside key brand moments. ClickUp is building an AI-native converged AI workspace that unifies tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search.

Location: United States
Arrangement: Onsite
Level: Senior
Employment: Full time
Posted: 2026-08-21
Date added: 2026-08-27
Last checked: 2026-10-17

Overview

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

Summary: You're the single point of excellence for ClickUp's visual brand. You set the standard and ensure every touchpoint (from landing pages to social to product marketing assets) feels cohesive and world-class. But here's what makes this different: you're building a design system that AI tools and non-designers can produce bar-raising creatives on their own with your infrastructure. You build the guardrails that make everyone else excellent and ensure the company is never bottlenecked by design.

Responsibilities

Own, maintain, and evolve ClickUp's brand design system (tokens, components, patterns, guidelines), continuously elevating the aesthetic bar as the brand grows
Serve as quality gatekeeper: review and approve brand-facing creative produced by AI tools, vibe-coded outputs, and external agencies
Create and maintain design system documentation, templates, component libraries, and automation-friendly asset packages that enable others to produce on-brand work without design support
Design and ship high-volume web assets (landing pages, campaign pages, feature announcements) alongside high-impact brand moments like launches and keynotes
Audit and rebuild the brand design system from incomplete foundations, establishing documentation and structure where little currently exists

Requirements

8+ years of brand/visual design experience, with significant time owning or leading a design system
Exceptional portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, color, motion, and systematic thinking
Actively uses AI design tools (Midjourney, Firefly, Claude Design, Figma AI, etc.) and AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) in their current workflow, with light familiarity with GitHub.
Has built or adapted design systems specifically to enable high-quality AI-generated outputs at scale.
Experience building design systems used at scale, including templates, component libraries, and constraints that enable non-designers and AI tools to produce on-brand output consistently
Experience QA'ing and refining AI-generated design outputs; knows where AI breaks down and how to build guardrails
Thrives as the sole designer on a team, making high-quality decisions autonomously with AI and tooling as force multipliers

About ClickUp

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

More roles like this

Every live role

This board re-checks every posting it carries, so a role that has closed leaves rather than sitting here. See all brand & design jobs. Open the board.

Lead Brand Designer