Creative Lead, Notion
Web
$200-260k
Salary reflective of San Francisco.
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
Job no longer available
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-260k
Salary reflective of San Francisco.
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a talented Creative Lead for our website to guide design and planning for our most important touchpoint, notion.com
- A maker and manager: You’ll mentor and motivate a talented team of interaction designers, while designing often, too
- 7+ years experience in creative work focused on UX / web projects either in-house or agency-side; 2+ years managing a team of 3+. Work in SaaS, or experience across both B2B and B2C audiences a plus
- Highest bar for quality of design: You’re still active in your craft and comfortable pitching in wherever needed to help your team. You’re a strong collaborator to Eng / PM leads, and with experience working with these functions as well as TPgM. You consider a11y and usability best practices in motivating your decisions
- Exceptional eye for detail at every stage: You sweat the small stuff, from mobile breakpoints to janky motion. And you consider details in a broader sense as well, emphasizing evidence-led design decision-making, user behavior understanding, coherent journey formation across our website, and an intuitive and seasoned grasp for what will resonate in the market
- Systems thinker: You delight in building scalable, repeatable systems for a rapidly growing business, and in finding ways to modernize and bring delight to users and prospective customers across B2B and B2C and a range of audiences and profiles
- Pacesetting and inspiring leader: You motivate your team with mentorship, commitment, and optimism. You define goals and track progress with TPgM Lead and ops partners. You are unfazed by ambiguous problem areas and thrive at running ambitious plans through to completion — even as requirements and priorities shift
- Creative champion: You have both empathy and passion for being an essential part of the creative process and view the quality of the team’s work as a direct reflection of your own. You’ve led major web work before, and can exemplify best practices and model customer-centricity in your efforts
- Outstanding communication skills: You are able to articulate a vision, strategy, or idea clearly, keep your team organized, and forge strong partnerships across diverse sets of stakeholders. You’re comfortable leading cross-team and/or multi-phase projects from ideation through implementation E2E. Your documentation and planning decisions help make ambiguity more tractable to unblock your team
- Experience using Notion - bonus points for both personal and work use!
- Most of the team can code front-end, so coding knowledge (CSS, HTML, JS, React (Next.js), TypeScript) a plus
What the job involves
- Notion’s Creative Team is a group of strategists, designers, illustrators, filmmakers, writers, technologists, and producers that deliver on all of Notion’s brand and creative expressions
- As Web Design Lead, you will be responsible for collaboratively shaping the vision for our web design system and key projects, launches, and other special initiatives that contribute to driving excellence in craft and performance for our marketing site
- This role reports to the Head of Creative
- Ensure a seamless web experience. Develop and maintain Notion’s web presence, ensuring consistency in design, usability, and performance across all web properties
- Lead web creative strategy. Partner with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Product, and Design, to define and execute a cohesive web strategy that aligns with Notion’s brand and business goals
- Innovate through web design and technology. Utilize the latest web technologies and design trends to create engaging and interactive web experiences that captivate and convert users
- Oversee E2E web projects. Manage web projects from initial concept through to final execution, coordinating with stakeholders, setting timelines, and ensuring deliverables are met on schedule
- Foster a collaborative web culture. Educate and mentor team members on web design best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the web creative team
Our take
Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.
The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2B valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.
The company has also made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. However, with a growing wave of competitors emerging, including offerings like Microsoft Loop, Notion will need to keep innovating and evolving to maintain its edge and stay ahead in an increasingly crowded market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ivan Zhao
(CEO)Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.
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