About Josephmark
We design and build scalable tech and unforgettable brands.
Josephmark is a digital studio that designs, builds, and launches brands, products, and companies that shape the future. We collaborate with founders, startups, and established organisations to create what’s next — from digital platforms and apps to brand identities and ventures.
We’re a small, multidisciplinary team of designers, strategists, thinkers, and doers who believe design has the power to create meaningful change. From rebooting Myspace for 100 million users to re‑igniting RCA Records, launching Pink Floyd’s new digital home and crafting immersive worlds for AMC’s The Walking Dead, we help ambitious teams create award-winning digital experiences.
What we're looking for
We’re looking for a Design Director who’s as comfortable leading direction as they are designing the work. Someone who can set the vision, inspire the team, and roll up their sleeves when it’s time to bring ideas to life.
This full time role will lead and work alongside our product, brand, and motion designers to deliver world-class outcomes. You’ll shape the studio’s creative direction while actively designing, whether that’s crafting a digital experience, refining a brand system, or prototyping a concept for a new venture.
You might come from a product design background, fluent in blending beauty and functionality, or a brand/creative direction background, with strengths in storytelling, identity and visual expression. What matters most is your ability to be a dependable and inspiring leader who elevates the work.
What makes this role different?
- With our unique position between LA and Australia, you’ll shape creative direction across a diverse mix of ambitious work — from global cultural platforms for music legends like Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, to iconic record labels such as RCA, emerging technology ventures, immersive storytelling experiences, and products designed to have a positive impact on people and planet.
- This role operates at the intersection of brand, product and technology. You’ll guide work that spans digital platforms, identities, systems and ventures — ensuring clarity, coherence and craft across disciplines.
- As a design-led studio with a strong history of venturing, you’ll help define how ideas move from concept to reality — balancing creative ambition with commercial viability and the realities of building and scaling new businesses.
- You’ll have genuine influence over the studio’s creative output, culture and standards, shaping not just individual projects but the long-term evolution of Josephmark’s design practice.
You'll be responsible for
- Driving design excellence across every project, from initial idea to launch.
- Guiding and mentoring an aspirational team: giving feedback, sharing knowledge, and nurturing craft.
- Collaborating with clients, founders, and internal teams to bring products and brands to life.
- Helping define and evolve Josephmark’s design practice and standards.
- Balancing project delivery with design direction: setting the bar while contributing directly.
You'll bring
- Leadership or senior-level experience in a studio, agency, or product environment. Ideally, with both hands-on design work and team leadership.
- Depth in either product design (visual identity, UX/UI, design systems, interaction) or brand/creative direction (identity, art direction, storytelling), with healthy curiosity for both.
- A strong sense of craft and attention to detail. You still love making things.
- The ability to inspire and lead a small, tight-knit team.
- Comfort switching between strategic thinking and detailed execution.
- Excellent communication skills, you can articulate ideas clearly to both teams and clients.
What's in it for you?
- Four-Day Work Week: In an era where so much of the workplace is evolving, we’ve been asking ourselves why would nine-to-five, Monday to Friday still be the standard? That’s why we have a four-day workweek (100-80-100™ model).
- Remote, flexible working: We're all about remote and flexible work—no need to come to the office, although we do have a stunning workspace at the Brisbane Powerhouse and we still love to get the team together regularly.
- Collaborate with experienced multi-disciplinary teams: You’ll get to bounce off multiple designers, creative directors, motion designers, business strategists, creative developers and external collaborators including photographers, CG artists and sound designers.
- Inclusive improvement focus: This is a rare opportunity to evolve and iterate on the JM brand and design methodology in close collaboration with our Studio Director and CEO. You will oversee and guide the ideation and execution of original, conceptual and systematic brand thinking. You love the tension of balancing contemporary visual culture with tech-driven strategies and commercial objectives.
- Thought leadership & mentorship: Once you find your groove and establish your practice, you get to inspire and cultivate a culture of excellence providing mentorship across all facets of brand activation, application and optimisation over time.
- Project diversity: Contribute to a transparent, high-performing, people-driven culture who get to work on diverse projects that are regenerative at their core.
- Professional development: You’ll be given a professional development budget each year to use towards courses, conferences and anything else that supports you in honing your craft.
At JM, we know better products start with diverse teams. We are an inclusive workplace committed to fostering a sense of thriving and belonging for all. That's why we strongly (see bold and underline usage) encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply. If you share our values and our venture mindset, you’ll find a home at Josephmark.
