Role overview
Brand Designer leads complex, highly visible brand design and provides hands-on creative oversight across a fintech Brand Studio. This role sets visual standards across typography, imagery, layout, and motion while helping other designers improve through critique, pairing, and direct feedback.
Creative Leadership Through Design
- Set and uphold design quality across campaigns, web, social media, events, and other brand touchpoints.
- Lead the most technically complex and prominent projects from brief through final delivery.
- Partner with another staff-level brand designer and creative leadership to evolve creative direction and execute visual standards.
- Review Brand Studio work, improve quality, and guide design decisions through hands-on oversight.
- Commission and art-direct photographers, illustrators, and motion designers.
- Develop brand system documentation and decision frameworks that support consistent, confident execution.
- Mentor IC3 and IC4 designers through critiques, paired work, and direct feedback.
- Collaborate with brand strategists, copywriters, product marketing managers, and leadership across channels.
- Define where AI belongs in the creative process, build AI-ready brand guidelines, and maintain design quality as these tools enter production workflows.
Staff-Level Design Experience
- A portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, color, and composition across brand contexts.
- A well-developed aesthetic point of view and the ability to explain why work succeeds or falls short.
- Fluency in scalable brand systems and experience guiding a brand through growth or change.
- 7–10+ years in brand design, including environments with demanding design standards such as agencies, fashion, premium consumer brands, or design-focused technology companies.
- Staff-level experience working autonomously, influencing without formal authority, and making decisions that shape a team’s output.
- Figma proficiency and hands-on experience contributing to or owning a design system.
- Strong verbal and presentation skills to explain design process, intent, and impact.
- Judgment that balances fine detail with the broader creative direction.
- Practical experience using AI in creative work and a considered approach to guiding its use without reducing quality.
- Curiosity, restraint, and commitment to thoughtful design.
Location and Total Rewards
The position is available remotely within the United States or Canada, with San Francisco, New York, and Portland also offered as locations. Total rewards include base salary, equity through stock options or RSUs, and benefits.
Target new-hire base salary ranges are:
- U.S. employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: USD $189,400–$236,700.
- U.S. employees outside those locations: USD $170,400–$213,000.
- Canadian employees in any location: CAD $179,000–$223,700.
Offers reflect experience, expertise, geography, and internal pay equity. Salary and equity ranges are reviewed against SaaS and fintech compensation survey data.
Equal employment opportunity, diversity, and belonging are priorities. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout recruitment for applicants with disabilities or other special needs.