Brand Creative Director, Chainguard

$174-205k

Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

InDesign

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

Software supply chain security company

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Software supply chain security company

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber SecurityDevOps

Be an early applicant

$174-205k

Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

InDesign

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber SecurityDevOps

Company mission

To make the software supply chain secure by default.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup, has a strong network of design collaborators, and enjoys blending big-picture thinking with pixel-perfect execution
7-10 years of design experience, ideally with at least 3-4 years leading brand-level design initiatives
A portfolio showcasing strong visual design, brand systems, and campaign work across digital and physical mediums
Proven experience implementing brand identities across web, print, and event environments
Excellent taste, attention to detail, and ability to maintain brand consistency
Comfortable in Figma for design systems, digital design, and collaboration. Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) for brand development, illustration, and print production
Ability to both execute and direct; able to context switch from getting into the weeds on an event booth to providing clear feedback to contractors
Strong network of freelance designers, illustrators, motion designers, and agencies you can bring into the fold
A collaborative approach to working with and influencing cross-functional partners, particularly groups without design experience or expertise
Comfortable operating in a startup environment, balancing speed and quality
Ideally experience designing for developer-friendly, technical brands
Bonus points for motion and animation chops
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply

What the job involves

We are seeking a Director, Brand Creative to steward Chainguard’s visual identity across every touchpoint
This person will ensure our branding not only lands powerfully today, but evolves with us as we grow
From our website to event experiences to sales materials, they’ll be the creative force ensuring our brand is consistent, distinctive, and memorable
They will not only design, but also direct contractors and agencies, ensuring consistency, quality, and creativity in how our brand shows up in the world
Brand stewardship: Own and iterate on Chainguard’s brand and visual identity across our website, presentations, event booths, sales collateral, swag, and other branded resources
Design leadership: Maintain brand guidelines that empower stakeholders across the company to create consistent, beautiful, and on-brand materials
Hands-on design: Own the design and production of high-priority assets, ensuring a high level of craft
Creative direction: Identify, vet, and manage freelance designers, illustrators, and agencies; provide feedback and direction to scale output while maintaining quality
Collaboration: Partner closely with Marketing, Product, and People teams to deliver assets that elevate the brand and meet business needs
Innovation: Push the creative boundaries of how Chainguard shows up across digital and physical channels, finding new ways to delight our audiences

Our take

Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.

In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.

Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

55% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Oct 2025

$280m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Apr 2025

$356m

SERIES D

Total funding: $892m

Company benefits

Equity/stock options
Unlimited PTO
Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
Home office and internet stipend
100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family

Company HQ

Everest, Kirkland, WA

Leadership

Dan Lorenc

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.

Kim Lewandowski

(Head of Product & Co-Founder)

Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.

Matthew Moore

(CTO & Co-Founder)

Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.

Ville Aikas

(Co-founder)

Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.

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