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Lead Graphic Designer
Lead Graphic Designer – Ultralytics
About Ultralytics
At Ultralytics, we commit to relentless innovation in AI and seek team members who share our ambition to create the world’s best YOLO AI models.
🔥 Who We Are
We’re on a mission to simplify AI for everyone as the creators of the world’s leading Ultralytics YOLO models. Empowering millions of developers, researchers, and companies worldwide to build cutting-edge computer vision applications, we’re scaling rapidly across our global hubs in London and Madrid.
Here, ambition meets impact—your bold ideas shape the future of vision AI. We move fast, build boldly, and execute with purpose. Explore what we build through our Docs and YOLO models.
About the Role
As Lead Graphic Designer, you’ll be the visual engine behind Ultralytics’ storytelling—translating complex vision AI into human, inspiring, and bold design.
You’ll:
- Own high-impact marketing and event assets, ensuring every touchpoint reflects our craft and speed.
- Lead end-to-end creative production for campaigns, digital/social visuals, motion content, decks, print, and event branding.
- Partner with Growth, Product, and Creative teams to scope needs and deliver work that supports YOLO tool adoption—from GitHub to Developer Docs.
- Enforce brand consistency and systems after our upcoming brand uplift with an external agency.
This role is ideal for a fast-moving design leader who thrives with ownership and accountability in a high-energy startup environment.
🔥 Key Responsibilities
✅ End-to-End Creative Production
- Design digital campaigns, social content, and website graphics (ultralytics.com).
- Create presentations, tech-focused comms assets, and sales collateral.
- Develop sales enablement materials, branded flyers, and merchandise.
- Design event branding, booth displays, and motion graphics/short videos.
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📈 Design Strategy & Leadership
- Collaborate with Product/Growth teams to prioritise creative efforts.
- Conduct competitive/en-market research to guide direction.
- Lead brand stewardship, ensuring consistency across all channels.
🤝 Quality & Collaboration
- Partner with Marketing, Creative, and Product to ensure branding stays cohesive.
- Enforce design rigor—no deliverable goes live without accuracy and polish.
🚀 Core Requirements
🍌 Skills & Experience
- 6–8 years of design experience in fast-paced AI, tech, or startup environments.
- Strong portfolio showcasing brand identity, marketing, events, and multi-format work.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
- Advanced Figma skills for UI, components, and rapid iteration.
- Ability to create motion and short-form video content.
- Hands-on with AI tools (e.g., ComfyUI, Midjourney) while applying ethical standards in pipelines.
- Fluent in simplifying complex AI concepts (e.g., YOLO workflows) into visuals.
- Exceptional time management, multitasking, and execution speed.
- Proactive, feedback-integrative, and highly adaptable under tight deadlines.
🔹 Nice-to-Haves
- Developer/tech brand experience (e.g., GitHub-centric design).
- Technical content design experience (Docs, tutorials).
- Familiarity with 3D tools (Blender, C4D) for product/event visuals.
- Community-focused design (forters, forums).
🤝 Cultural Fit
Our start-up mentality thrives on speed, precision, and teamwork. We demand hard work, ambition, and adaptability.
You succeed here if you:
- Take clear ownership and deliver results.
- Balance strategy with hands-on execution.
- Value excellence and grit as much as creativity.
- See collaboration as core to progress.
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Our five values define our culture: ✔ Relentless Progress – Constant evolution and improvement. ✔ Strive for Excellence – Perseverance with precision. ✔ Actions, Not Words – Prove it with impact. ✔ Act with Urgency – No window of opportunity goes wasted. ✔ Open Access for All – Transparent, inclusive communication.
More details in our Ultralytics Handbook.
💰 Compensation & Benefits
We reward excellence, not tenure.
- Competitive salary aligned with experience.
- Equity stakes in a fast-growing AI company.
- On-site collaboration in global London/Madrid hubs.
- Flexible hours—results over habits.
- 24 days off/year, birthday off + local holidays.
- Cutting-edge tech (MacBook Air/Pro, Studio Display, AirPods Pro 3).
- Learning budgets for growth.
- Cutting-edge teamwork shaping vision AI’s future.
Apply at: ultralytics.com/careers
💻 Where & How You’ll Work
- On-site (London or Madrid)—collaborative, high-energy offices.
- Candidates must meet legal work authorization in the country applied for.
Why Join Ultralytics?
We’re rewriting the AI frontier. If you’re ** builders first**, when pushing boundaries excites you, and want to see your work shape the future of AI, this is your moment.
Check our values and team culture.**
📜 Equal Opportunity Employer
Ultralytics commits to diversity and inclusion. We celebrate differences in race, religion, gender, orientation, age, veteran status, and ability. If design can evolve with AI, so can our team’s representation.
For more details, see handbook.ultralytics.com.
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