Associate Creative Director/ Senior Brand Designer

About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

  Our Vision: 

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Corporate Marketing
Within Corporate Marketing, the Brand & Creative Services team mission is to clearly and compellingly communicate the power of graph technology to the world. Our small and mighty team (comprised of a brand director, program manager, three designers and a videographer):

• Create a collaborative environment where tech, business and creative minds merge
• Challenge the why and how to achieve customer-first creativity
• Drive brand stewardship through stakeholder education and enablement
• Keep pulse on creative trends and technologies to deliver high bar creativity
• Deliver impact with creative solutions for the business

Job Description
We are seeking an inspiring and highly-driven creative leader to help guide our in-house creative team on our journey toward building Neo4j into one of the world’s most beloved and trusted tech brands. 

As a seasoned creative, you bring your years of experience and intuition to every new creative challenge, raising the creative bar across the business. You keep tabs on design trends and technologies, and help internal partners to find clever new ways to bring their specific requests to life– always providing a thoughtful POV and expert guidance to the team along the way.

Our in-house creative services function works closely with internal teams and agency partners to tell our brand and product story in a way that is approachable, intentional and confident. With your killer eye and instincts, you are adept at managing the creative process and provide feedback with empathy and encouragement (NO EGOS, PLEASE).

Responsibilities

• Creative Direction: Provide problem-solving creative direction, inspiration, and guidance, consulting with creative professionals across the org (UX, UI, Product & DevRel) to ensure the highest quality of work is produced at scale while adhering to brand guidelines 
• Creative Concepting: Generate and oversee the development of innovative, integrated, and cross-channel creative concepts that resonate with our primary audiences, including heavily technical audiences like developers
• Team Development: Be an active participant in the growth and development of the creative team, providing mutual mentorship, feedback, and opportunities for both skill and perspective enhancement
• Creative Strategy:  Creative thinker with an ability to infuse business needs into design solutions. Thoughtfully thread the visual language of an idea across relevant touchpoints and tactics, working closely with our expanding ecosystem of brand owners to deliver cohesive, impactful work. Advocate for your creative work to a variety of cross-functional stakeholders including creative peers, brand leadership and executive staff
• Creative Market Research: Stay current with industry trends, consumer insights, and emerging technologies to inform creative ideation and decisioning
• Brand Steward: Natural ability to inspire others– including every employee– to be a brand owner, while building enthusiasm for the Neo4j brand. Use visual design, creative ideation, compositional sensibilities, typographic rules, and user journey optimization to translate creative concepts into materials for our int