Senior Manager, Visual Design

What We’re Building

Honeycomb defined the concept of observability and is raising expectations of what developer tools can do! Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before. It enables engineers to answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications, so they can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation. We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!!

If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.  

Who We Are

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers. 

How We Work

We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:

In the Senior Manager, Visual Design role, you’ll be joining a growing Brand and Communications team, helping us to scale and mature our Visual Design practice to take the beloved Honeycomb brand to new heights. 

What you’ll do in the role:  

Healthy and Inclusive team builder

- This is a player-coach role where you will guide the design team to push the bounds of our brand, and help develop their skills and how the team operates.

- Lead and develop the visual design team: create clear expectations and accountability practices, development and growth, inspired design and creative thinking

- Define and launch best practices around creating cohesive, high quality design

Strategic thinking that moves mountains

- Build systems that help mature and scale up our visual design practice

- Serve as a strategic partner in the prioritization of the needs of the business and team capacity; defines KPIs to measure successHarness the visionary element of our brand and product into an innovative, cutting edge design style

Courageous communicator and motivator

-Show up as an impactful cross functional partner within the Marketing org as well as in interfacing with other internal teams connected to the Honeycomb brand

-Establish effective feedback loops and processes between the Visual Design team and the rest of the org to better tap into the talent we have on the team, and external partners

Develops self and others

-Work with head of Comms and Brand to establish clear career ladders for visual design

- Acts as a coach and mentor to visual design team; responsible for representing the visual design team (and their work) upwards, and advocating for what’s needed to be successful

Think like an owner

- Evolve the way Honeycomb shows up visually and reflect our leadership and willingness to push boundaries

What you’ll bring to the role:

- Experience leading and scaling a Visual Design team

- An expert understanding of  graphic design foundations including typography, color, hierarchy, design psychology, composition, pacing, and proportion.

- A passion for bleeding-edge visual and web design, including event assets and multimedia, with proven design chops

- Deep experience in being able to translate between business needs and how design can help achieve them

- A strong sense of systems and process thinking.

- Maybe you haven’t built a team from scratch, but you know what best practices look like, and you know how to build processes to bridge current gaps

- Have experience with creative for a B2B brand, as well as designing for technical/developer audience

- Confidence managing through conflict; comfortable in delivering constructive feedback

- Ability to build strong cross functional relationships with several teams including marketing, product, sales, as well as manage relationships external vendors including freelancers and agencies

Base pay (range) of $177,000- $208,000

What you’ll get when you join the Hive:

- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program

- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience

- Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical

- A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)

- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend

- 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits 

- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood

- Annual development allowance 

- And much more...

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or do visa transfers at this time.

Diversity & Accommodations:

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don't need to be a millennial to join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email Talent@honeycomb.ioto discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work; if we can do better - we want to know!