Teachable
Senior Lead, Design
🇺🇸 Hybrid - New York City, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $120K - $135K
💻 Marketing
🗓️ January 6th, 2026
LMS
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Teachable is hiring a Senior Lead, Design to provide creative leadership and hands-on art direction experience that elevates marketing creative quality and speed while scaling the design team. The role involves partnering with marketing, product, and growth leaders to translate business goals into compelling creative work and mentoring designers to uphold brand consistency and design excellence.
Highlights
- Lead creative direction by translating business goals into cohesive creative concepts and presenting to stakeholders
- Art direct campaigns, shoots, and major brand initiatives ensuring high standards in typography, layout, and visual quality
- Own and evolve the marketing design system and visual standards to ensure brand consistency across channels
- Mentor and develop designers, providing actionable feedback and fostering growth
- Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, and growth teams to align priorities and timelines
- Manage end-to-end project delivery, including intake, scoping, execution, and meeting timelines and budgets
- Require 5+ years of hands-on design and art direction experience with prior designer management
- Prefer candidates with SaaS/tech, ed-tech, LMS, or creator economy design experience
- Base salary range: $120,000 - $135,000 with compensation based on experience and other factors
- Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States and able to attend NYC office 1-2 times per month
Senior Lead, Design Full Description
What is Teachable?
Teachable is trusted by creator-educators around the world to grow their impact and income. From online courses and communities to memberships and downloads, Teachable's digital learning products help creator-educators drive meaningful connection and sustainable revenue. With industry-best ecommerce tools, easily toggled on directly within the platform, creators can confidently maximize their earnings, while getting paid directly by their audience. Teachable's unmatched focus on the student learning experience also ensures creators can make a positive and influential impact on their communities—entirely on their own terms. Today, tens of thousands of creator-educators use Teachable to share their knowledge, reaching millions of students around the world. To learn more, visit teachable.com.
Are you ready to join a dynamic, cross-cultural team at an exciting turning point in our company’s journey? Now part of the global Hotmart Company portfolio, whose platforms have helped creators earn more than $10 billion, Teachable continues to take the creator economy by storm as a true industry leader. Together, Teachable and Hotmart are delivering market-leading products that prioritize creator control and flexibility, alongside meaningful partnership and support from our team. If you have big ideas, relish the chance to challenge convention, and deeply believe in the power of creators to shape the future, we want you on our team!
About your team
Our Brand & Content team is a group of social media experts, newsletter writers, designers, and copywriters—all working together to build a world-class brand creators love. We focus on growing Teachable’s reach, connecting with new and existing audiences, and using content, design, and in-person experiences to drive awareness, generate leads, and deepen engagement.
Our Brand & Content team is a group of social media experts, newsletter writers, designers, and copywriters—all working together to build a world-class brand creators love. We focus on growing Teachable’s reach, connecting with new and existing audiences, and using content, design, and in-person experiences to drive awareness, generate leads, and deepen engagement.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Lead, Design with hands-on art direction experience to elevate the quality, consistency, and speed of our marketing creative while scaling a growing design team.
We’re looking for a Senior Lead, Design with hands-on art direction experience to elevate the quality, consistency, and speed of our marketing creative while scaling a growing design team.
This is a player/coach role: you’ll provide clear creative leadership and mentorship while remaining deeply involved in execution when it matters most. You’ll partner closely with marketing, product, and growth leaders to translate business goals into compelling creative work — and ensure that work scales with quality and clarity.
This role is preferably hybrid to our NYC office 1-2x a month.
What you’ll do
Creative & Brand Leadership
- Translate business goals and marketing strategies into strong, cohesive creative concepts
- Define and communicate clear creative direction across campaigns and initiatives
- Present creative work and rationale to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Act as a trusted creative partner, helping stakeholders make confident, informed decisions
Art Direction & Craft Excellence
- Art direct campaigns, shoots, and major brand initiatives across channels
- Review and refine design work to ensure a consistently high bar for craft
- Set and uphold standards for typography, layout, motion, imagery, and overall visual quality
- Roll up your sleeves to design or directly execute when stakes are high or timelines are tight
Design Systems & Scale
- Own and evolve the design system and visual standards for marketing
- Ensure brand consistency across teams, channels, and touchpoints
- Build repeatable processes for critique, feedback, and delivery that balance quality with speed
- Partner with external agencies and vendors to extend creative output without sacrificing standards
Team & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Mentor and develop designers at different levels, fostering growth, confidence, and autonomy
- Provide clear, actionable creative feedback that raises the quality of work
- Collaborate closely with marketing, product, and growth teams to align priorities and timelines
- Advocate for design in planning, prioritization, and resourcing discussions
Who you are:
- A senior design leader with strong hands-on art direction experience (5+ years working as a designer)
- Managed and mentored at least 1 designer
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end project management for creative initiatives, from intake and scoping through execution and delivery, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met.
- Comfortable balancing strategy, execution, and people leadership
- Confident presenting creative work to senior stakeholders
- Passionate about craft, clarity, and building systems that enable great work
- Experienced collaborating cross-functionally in fast-moving environments
Nice to have:
- Experience at saas/tech companies
- Design for ed-tech, LMS and/or creator economy companies
Additional details:
- This role is open to candidates who are able to work in our NYC office 1-2x a month.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
- For this role, the base salary range is $120,000 - $135,000. A salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, education, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.
While Teachable maintains our NY office for local employees to use, we operate as a remote-first culture in order to give our employees added flexibility. In order to maintain connection and create a community beyond the screen, Teachable holds in-person events throughout the year, where employees and teams can come together for bonding, strategic alignment, goal-setting, and celebrations!
Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer, meaning we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process. Please tell us in your application if you require an accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job.
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