Job Description
Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to make life easier for security teams. We meticulously create robust solutions that enable our customers to identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity risk across their attack surface, vendor ecosystem, workforce, and trust relationships. Our integrated cyber risk posture management platform combines comprehensive security ratings, instant risk assessments, templated security questionnaires, threat intelligence capabilities, and agentic AI to give organizations a holistic view of their risk surface.
The Marketing team at UpGuard includes multiple marketing and design functions, including Product Marketing, Demand Gen, Marketing Ops, Content Marketing, SEO, Community, Design, and Video. UpGuard’s vision is to become a leader in the markets we play in (Cyber VRM, Attack Surface Management) by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Marketing team is to facilitate this goal by growing UpGuard with a repeatable and scalable marketing engine and a leading brand.
Where does this role fit in?
The Graphic Designer role is vital to our production capability, reporting directly to the Creative Director. Based in Argentina, you will be responsible for taking high-level concepts and art direction developed by our Creative Leads and bringing them to life with flawless, scalable execution.
You are a master of the toolkit, utilising our established templates and brand guidelines to execute a deep range of deliverables across the creative spectrum. This role is essential for scaling our creative output consistently and efficiently across all our product lines and platforms.
What will you do?
- Omni-channel Execution: Apply your understanding of best practices and tooling to execute across omni-channel deliverables such as digital ads, social media graphics, white papers, case studies, event materials, and email components.
- Translate Creative Concepts: Work directly with the Creative Leads in the product squads to interpret high-level mock-ups and translate them into polished, final design files ready for distribution.
- Leverage the Design System: Deeply understand and utilise our centralised design system assets, templates, and component libraries within Figma to ensure consistency and speed. You will be responsible for documenting additions to brand libraries, ensuring they are easy for the wider team to use.
- Master Print & Digital: Navigate seamlessly between mediums, applying a strong knowledge of both digital standards and print production best practices to ensure high-quality output everywhere our brand appears.
- Deliver High-Quality Web Assets: Design and finalise UI elements, icons, and visual components for the UpGuard website and landing pages based on the conceptual direction.
- Enforce Brand Standards: Serve as a gatekeeper for visual quality, ensuring all executed assets maintain strict adherence to the UpGuard brand guidelines, visual consistency, and accessibility standards.
- Collaborate at Speed: Work quickly and manage your time effectively in a fast-paced environment, maintaining close communication with our Marketing Project Manager to streamline creative review and delivery. You actively seek feedback and criticism to continuously refine your work.
What will you bring?
- 3+ years of professional experience as a Graphic Designer or Visual Designer in a corporate or agency setting, preferably within B2B technology.
- Mastery of Figma is essential. You must have a deep understanding of the software, including experience working with shared component libraries, auto-layout, and design systems.
- Fluent understanding of the English language (both written and verbal).
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to producing pixel-perfect, error-free final assets under tight campaign deadlines.
- Flexibility to collaborate asynchronously with global stakeholders across the US and Australian time zones.
- A portfolio that showcases versatility, strong typographic skills, and the successful application of an established brand identity across diverse formats.
What will give you an edge?
- Direct experience contributing to a centralised, shared design system (e.g., documenting atomic components or templates).
- Foundational experience or a strong interest in motion graphics and video editing to support the wider motion design team.
- Familiarity with the technical requirements for assets optimised for paid advertising platforms (e.g., Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads).
What’s in it for you?
- Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being
- WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard
- $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance
- Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries.
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role
- Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave
- Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance
- Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role
- Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work
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UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work® in the US, Australia, UK and India, establishing its position as a leading global technology employer. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work, apply now to find out why!
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
For applications to positions in the United States, please note, at this time we can only support hiring in the following US states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC.
Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
