Creative Designer

Imagine. Design. Create.
TL;DR
We're looking for someone creative, curious, and hands-on to help bring Defendify's vision, brand, marketing, and digital experiences to life.
From campaign concepts and visual design to content creation and interactive experiences, this role offers plenty of creative variety. You'll have room to contribute fresh ideas, experiment with AI, and collaborate with experienced leaders at a growing cybersecurity company.
The Role
This is a hands-on creative role spanning visual design, brand, digital marketing, content creation, and interactive experiences.
Projects could range from developing a new campaign concept and its visuals to refreshing brand elements, creating a standout sales presentation, or using AI to build an interactive landing page or mini-app. There’s plenty of variety and room to experiment.
You'll collaborate with experienced leaders across marketing, brand, product, and go-to-market, learning from their expertise while bringing your own creative perspective to the team.
This is an early-career opportunity for someone with innovative and creative instincts, curiosity about new technologies, and the drive to keep learning, experimenting, and creating.
What You'll Own
Generate original ideas, campaign concepts, visual directions, headlines, and promotional copy, drawing inspiration from creative trends and the competitive landscape
Design and publish social media content, digital ads, promotions, event and sponsorship graphics, and website assets, including updating content through our CMS
Help refine and evolve Defendify's visual identity and brand voice, maintaining consistency while exploring fresh creative directions
Create marketing materials, presentations, sales, partner, and product enablement assets, company swag designs, and other creative deliverables
Design, build, and publish landing pages and lightweight interactive experiences using modern tools and AI-assisted development
Experiment with motion graphics, animation, video, and other creative formats to create engaging content
Use AI for ideation, design, and development, and help create reusable design systems, templates, and workflows that empower others to create
How We Work
Great creative work comes from ideas, experimentation, collaboration, and execution. We encourage curiosity, creative initiative, and trying new approaches.
You'll receive guidance, context, and feedback from experienced teammates across the business, with room to propose ideas, explore alternatives, and bring your own perspective.
Not every idea will be used, and that's part of the process. We value creative exploration, rapid iteration, thoughtful feedback, and continuous improvement.
AI is becoming an integral part of how we think, design, and build, alongside the human creativity, judgment, and attention to detail that make great work stand out.
What Success Looks Like
You consistently bring fresh ideas forward and turn them into quality creative work
Creative projects move efficiently from concept to finished deliverables
Defendify's brand becomes more engaging, recognizable, and consistent across channels
Teams across Defendify have access to better creative materials, content, and resources
New tools, formats, and approaches expand what our team can create
You continue developing your skills, incorporating feedback, and taking on new creative challenges
You Might Be a Fit If You…
Have a good eye for visual design, typography, composition, and storytelling
Love coming up with creative ideas and doing the hands-on work to bring them to life
Have experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, or similar design tools
Enjoy developing creative concepts, headlines, and short-form written content
Are curious about AI, emerging creative tools, and new ways to design, create, and build
Have a portfolio demonstrating your creativity and design skills, including academic, freelance, or personal projects
Can take direction, incorporate feedback, and deliver polished creative work
Are resourceful, detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager to learn across different disciplines
Some hands-on experimentation with motion, video, web design, interactive projects, or AI-assisted development is expected, but expertise isn't.
How This Role Operates
You'll report to marketing leadership and collaborate with colleagues across marketing, sales, product, and company leadership.
The role also offers occasional opportunities to learn about and assist with guided product UI/UX design and other creative projects across the company.
Why This Role Matters
As Defendify grows, great creative work helps us communicate our vision, stand out in the market, and connect with customers and partners.
This role brings fresh thinking and hands-on creative capacity to the team, helping us explore more ideas, strengthen our brand experiences, and produce quality work across the business.
Why Join Defendify
A broad creative canvas:
Work across brand, digital marketing, content, interactive experiences, and more rather than being limited to one design specialty
Learn from experienced leaders:
Collaborate directly with seasoned professionals across marketing, brand, product, technology, and business strategy
Freedom to create:
Bring your ideas, explore new approaches, experiment with emerging tools, and see your work come to life
A proven growth company:
Join a cybersecurity SaaS company recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies three consecutive years
A meaningful mission:
Help make cybersecurity possible for small and midsized organizations, bringing creativity to an industry where clear communication and great experiences matter
Grow with us:
Expand your skills across creative disciplines and take on new opportunities and responsibilities as Defendify continues to grow
Location
This role is based out of our Portland, Maine headquarters, where we value in-person collaboration, with flexibility for hybrid work.
Our headquarters are on the top floor of a building on Commercial Street, in the heart of Portland’s Old Port, overlooking Casco Bay. For someone who values in-person collaboration, it’s a great place to be and build.
Simple Test
Do you love to ideate, iterate, and create? Can you collaborate, experiment, and build things people want to see, share, and experience?
If yes, let's talk!