Design Team Lead (Creative Tech) at Zvuk audio service

Zvuk audio service is looking for a Design Team Lead (Creative Tech).

You will lead the Creative Tech division within Zvuk's design team — a team that transforms technology into a sustainable competitive advantage in visual experience. Your task is to ensure that AI, 3D, motion, and creative coding continuously enhance the product and communication, while Zvuk's visual language remains cohesive, recognizable, and technologically advanced.

Zvuk already has a Creative Tech division: they use AI tools, automation, and new visual formats in product and marketing, seeing a measurable effect in production speed and quality of solutions.

Now, we need a leader to take this division, set its focus, build systematic processes, expand the technology stack, and connect the team's work with the product and brand goals. You will be part of Zvuk's design function, working at the intersection of communication design, marketing, content, and product design.

What you will be doing:

• Leading the Creative Tech division: forming strategy, prioritizing initiatives, planning team workload and development.
• Integrating AI tools into the daily work of designers and related teams: automating routine tasks, accelerating creative production, increasing the variety and quality of visual solutions.
• Curating AI-generated creative: covers, graphics, promotional materials, visual concepts for campaigns and product features, selecting and configuring tools for Zvuk's tasks.
• Developing the motion design direction: visual narratives in communication and product that explain complex features and shape the brand's emotional perception.
• Developing creative coding: interactive and generative formats, dynamic graphics, special projects, and visual experiments that can become part of the product or communication.
• Establishing sustainable interaction with communication design and marketing: joining at the idea formation stage, helping to find formats that leverage technology advantageously.
• Creating and developing internal pipelines and tools: templates, presets, libraries, service integrations — anything that accelerates the path from task to deployment.
• Conducting regular art direction: evaluating creatives, animations, and technological experiments, aligning them with Zvuk's visual language, and helping the team grow professionally.
• Monitoring the development of tools and practices in the market and updating the tech stack in a timely manner to maintain the team's high level of expertise.

What we expect from you:

• Experience at the intersection of design and technology: AI creative, 3D, generative graphics, interactive design, complex motion, or related formats — with live examples in your portfolio.
• Strong visual and conceptual taste: you can assess not only "how it looks" but also "how it works for the product and brand goals." Experience with modern AI tools for visuals and video, and readiness to quickly adopt new solutions.
• Solid understanding of motion design principles; a plus is practical experience or deep experience in setting tasks and accepting work from motion and 3D specialists.
• Background in creative coding or close collaboration with developers on visual projects: you know where code unlocks new visual possibilities and how to work with it.
• Leadership experience: you have built processes, made decisions on team focus, conducted reviews, and helped designers grow.
• Strong communication skills: you can explain complex things in simple terms, negotiate, and defend quality without conflict of interests.

What will be a plus:

• Experience in media, streaming, entertainment, the gaming industry, or other products where visual experience directly impacts engagement.
• Participation in projects involving AR/VR, immersive formats, installations, or experimental interfaces.
• Experience launching or developing creative technology divisions within a product, agency, or production company.
• Skill in working with experiments and analytics: understanding how to test visual hypotheses and measure results.

We do everything to make work enjoyable:

Becoming the best versions of themselves:

• Sending to conferences and professionally coaching speakers.
• Organizing turnkey training.
• Growing their own mentors.
• Developing internal communities: from runners to KVN (Humor Club) participants.

Creating only comfortable vibes:

• Working in stylish offices near Kutuzovskaya metro station.
• Supporting flexible work formats and start times.
• Providing benefits of working in an accredited IT company.
• Accompanying every new employee with a buddy for quick and comfortable adaptation.
• Giving gifts on anniversaries and dressing in stylish merchandise.
• Hosting our own awesome parties and giving out tickets to artist concerts.

Knowing how to stay energized and in flow:

• Full comprehensive DMI (Voluntary Medical Insurance) from day one: with annual check-ups, travel insurance, and maternity coverage. And even DMI for pets.
• 100% compensation for sick leave up to 15 calendar days per year.
• Paying for sessions with psychologists from "Yasno" (a mental health service).
• Training in the office gym.
• Compensating sports expenses.