Global Design Lead, Awin
Connecting businesses with customers around the world
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Connecting businesses with customers around the world
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower advertisers and publishers of all sizes to grow their businesses online.
Role
Who you are
- Proven senior experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams across traditional design, digital design, UI, and UX
- Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across branding, digital interfaces, motion, campaigns, and complex multi-channel design
- Expertise in defining and implementing design systems at scale
- Exceptional stakeholder management and ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), After Effects, Premiere Pro, and other core production tools
- Strong competence in Figma or other UI/UX design platforms
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate the “why” behind design decisions
- Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple streams and drive projects from concept to delivery
- Exceptional communicator — clear, confident, and empathetic
- Strategic thinker with strong business and brand acumen
- Calm under pressure, with excellent judgement and discretion
- Collaborative and able to influence at all levels of the organisation
- Highly organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities with precision
- Native English speaker, with excellent communication abilities, both written and verbal
What the job involves
- The Global Design Lead is Awin’s most senior design authority within Marketing, responsible for elevating and transforming how the organisation approaches design across all channels and touchpoints
- This role sets the strategic direction for design excellence, oversees a multi-disciplinary team, and partners cross-functionally to ensure Awin delivers world-class creative, UI/UX, and digital-native experiences
- Acting as both a hands-on expert and a strategic leader, the Global Design Lead defines Awin’s design standards, leads the creation of a scalable design system, and ensures consistent, high-quality execution that strengthens our brand across markets
- Define and drive the global design strategy across Marketing, ensuring creative excellence, innovation, and consistency across all markets
- Establish a clear design vision that elevates Awin’s brand and differentiates us across all customer touchpoints
- Create and embed a global design system that is scalable, intuitive, and used cross-functionally across Marketing, Product, Commercial, and Operations
- Champion a culture of high-performance design, inspiring a team of designers across multiple disciplines
- Lead, mentor, and develop the global design team, with responsibility for team structure, capability growth, coaching, and continuous improvement
- Build a collaborative, empowered, and high-performing design function with strong creative, UI, UX, and visual communication capabilities
- Oversee resource allocation, project prioritisation, and workflow management to ensure efficient and effective delivery
- Oversee and contribute to the creation of visual assets across all marketing channels, including campaigns, events, brand content, social, video, motion graphics, CRM, paid media, and web
- Drive digital-native design practices across UI, UX, responsive web layouts, and interactive experiences
- Ensure high-quality execution of presentations, toolkits, templates, motion graphics, video, and animation
- Set standards for accessibility, usability, and design quality across all creative output
- Partner closely with Brand, Communications, Content, Product, and regional marketing teams to ensure design supports strategic goals and delivers seamless customer experiences
- Work with Product & UX teams to ensure brand and design coherence across product surfaces and user journeys
- Collaborate with external agencies, freelancers, and production partners to scale design delivery when required
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, translating business objectives into compelling visual and digital experiences
- Lead design thinking and creative workshops, helping teams across the business understand how design improves outcomes
- Maintain a “design-as-a-service” mindset with stakeholders, ensuring responsiveness, clarity of briefs, and professionalism in delivery
- Own and optimise Awin’s global design libraries, assets, guidelines, and documentation
- Ensure consistent application of the brand across all markets and channels, acting as the senior-most guardian of brand quality
- Establish and refine design processes, tooling, templates, and workflows to improve efficiency and scalability
- Oversee quality control processes, feedback rounds, and approvals to maintain exceptional design standards
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Serving a global community of advertisers, agencies, and publishers, Awin provides its clients with tailored business insights. It connects companies with international customers by fostering trusted partnerships to drive sustainable growth.
The company’s global affiliate network spans 17 offices worldwide, with more than 250,000 contributing publishers and over 25,000 advertisers. It has forged strong partnerships with major companies, including ShareASale and Sideqik and generated 200 million in sales for its advertisers in 2022.
The company has been focusing on boosting its network of agencies and is already turning the conversation toward the future of affiliate marketing (such as metaverse advertising). Awin has shown a high level of adaptability within the market and is well poised to see further substantial growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2014
$0.2m
SEED
Mar 2014
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $2.7m
Company benefits
- Private Health/Vision/Dental Insurance
- Up to 28 Days Annual Holiday
- 2 Paid Days Off/Year to Volunteer During Working Hours
- In-House Language Courses
- Subsidised Corporate Gym Membership
- Childcare Vouchers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Personal & Business Travel Insurance
- Medical, dental and optical insurance
- Season ticket loan
- Free fruit and sweets
Company HQ
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Adam Ross
(CEO)Was COO before becoming CEO at Awin. Former COO of Affiliate Window.
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