Lead Digital Designer

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

BENEFITS & PERKS *

• Best-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options
• Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays; Parental Leave; Sick Leave
• Fuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays
• Equity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

*Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles

YOUR MISSION

The Lead Digital Designer defines how True Anomaly’s brand lives, moves, and communicates across digital experiences. Working closely with the Head of Graphic Design, Brand & Identity, and the broader Brand & Creative team, this role leads the design of major web, editorial, campaign, and interactive experiences. The role translates brand, content, product, and business strategy into compelling digital experiences and helps evolve the systems, patterns, and principles that support True Anomaly’s digital expression.

Your primary focus will be designing and evolving our web ecosystem, including a new editorial publication and an interactive company website. This is a hands-on design role for someone who combines exceptional visual craft with strong systems thinking, editorial judgment, and an understanding of how people experience content, products, and brands on the web. You can develop a bold creative direction within a broader creative framework, translate it into a flexible design system, and remain closely involved as the work is built and launched.

Beyond our core web platforms, you will contribute to product launches, integrated marketing campaigns, social content, and the digital expression of events and other significant brand moments. You will think across the end-to-end experience, understanding how individual interactions, content, and touchpoints work together to create a coherent relationship with the brand.

This is not a motion design role, but motion is an important part of the medium. You should understand how interaction, animation, transitions, and responsive behavior can improve hierarchy, storytelling, and usability and be able to concept and direct that work in partnership with motion designers and developers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Web and Interactive Design

• Lead the creative development and design of True Anomaly’s company website, editorial publication, and other priority digital experiences.
• Translate brand, audience, product, content, and business objectives into clear digital concepts, information architecture, user journeys, page systems, and interaction models.
• Design responsive experiences from early concepts and wireframes through high-fidelity design, prototyping, development, quality assurance, and launch.
• Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes that communicate responsive behavior, motion, transitions, and complex user flows with enough specificity to guide implementation.
• Develop and articulate a distinctive point of view for how the True Anomaly brand behaves online across typography, imagery, layout, interaction, and motion, aligned with the broader brand direction set by Brand & Creative leadership.
• Partner with developers from the beginning of a project to explore what is possible in the browser and use technical constraints and emerging capabilities as inputs to the creative process.
• Balance expressive storytelling with clarity, accessibility, performance, ease of use, and the needs of different audiences.
• Maintain creative quality through development, testing, and launch.
• Review qualitative and quantitative signals after launch and evolve digital experiences based on audience behavior, content performance, and changing business needs.

Editorial Design and Publishing

• Create the design system for a new editorial publication that can support long-form journalism, technical storytelling, interviews, essays, multimedia, and evolving content formats.
• Partner with Editorial Content Strategy, Communications, Creative Strategy, and subject-matter experts to determine how stories should be structured and experienced.
• Partner with Editorial, Content Strategy, and developers to define the publication’s content model, taxonomy, CMS requirements, and relationships between stories, formats, authors, and topics.
• Design for the full publishing system—not only individual articles—including discovery, navigation, archives, series, author pages, related content, search, and emerging editorial formats.
• Develop flexible article templates and editorial components without making every story feel identical.
• Use typography, pacing, imagery, data, interaction, and motion to make complex ideas understandable and compelling.
• Ensure the system supports editorial flexibility, efficient publishing, accessibility, and long-term growth without sacrificing the character of individual stories.
• Help establish scalable workflows and standards for publishing and evolving content.

Digital Brand Systems

• Build and evolve reusable digital design systems, including typography, color, layout, components, interaction patterns, and motion principles, in partnership with the Head of Graphic Design, Brand & Identity and relevant creative and technical partners.
• Partner with internal teams and external collaborators to scale, refine, and evolve design across digital systems and experiences.
• Ensure consistency across the company website, editorial experiences, campaigns, launches, events, and social platforms.
• Create templates and kits of parts that allow the team to move quickly while maintaining a high creative standard.
• Identify when a digital experience should extend the existing system and when a moment warrants a more bespoke approach.
• Document systems and provide clear design direction to internal teams, developers, agencies, and production partners, escalating major brand or strategic decisions as appropriate.
• Explore emerging tools and formats—including creative coding, generative design, data visualization, real-time 3D, and AI-assisted workflows—when they create a more meaningful or effective digital experience.

Campaigns, Launches, and Brand Moments

• Develop digital creative for integrated marketing campaigns and product launches, including landing pages, interactive stories, digital toolkits, social assets, and supporting content.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Communications, Social, Events, and other teams to create cohesive experiences across channels.