Design Taste Lead Remote-first (US timezone overlap) · $130,000 – $170,000 base Read the full role →

creytixBrooklyn (NY)

$130,000 per year

Design Taste Lead Remote-first (US timezone overlap) · $130,000 – $170,000 base Read the full role →

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creytixBrooklyn (NY)

Designers, All Other Graphic Design Services

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Manager

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$130,000 per year

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About the role

We build a lot of sites fast, with a lot of machine assistance, and the default failure mode of that is work that is competent and completely generic. We treat taste as a scoring function — brand fit, hierarchy, restraint, consistency, interaction quality, minus the tells of AI-generated design — and someone has to own it and be right.

What you'll do:

Own the taste critic and the brand DNA locks that gate what ships across the fleet
Review work against the critic, and improve the critic when it disagrees with you and you're right
Curate the reference library that trains our judgment — typed, sourced, and legally clean
Set the visual direction for new brands before a wireframe exists
Say no to work that passes every automated gate and is still bad
What we need from you
A portfolio where the restraint is visible and the range is real
You can articulate why something is wrong specifically enough that it becomes a rule
Comfortable working inside a design system and extending it rather than starting over per project
Opinionated about typography and hierarchy in a way you can defend

Nice to have:

Front-end skills — enough to change it rather than annotate itBrand identity work
Motion and interaction design
Your first 90 days
Week 1–2: audit the live fleet and rank every surface by how generic it reads
Week 3–8: fix the worst offenders and turn each fix into a rule the critic enforces
By day 90: owning direction on new brands, with the critic measurably catching what you'd catch

Compensation Base$130,000 – $170,000 Equity 0.3% – 0.7%Base is US-remote, at lead level. You own a scoring function the whole fleet ships against, not a queue of screens.

Before you apply

Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.

Your profile is current

It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.

Two examples you can talk through

Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.

A number in mind

What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.

Your notice period

Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.

Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.