Brand Design Lead

About The Job

The Creative team is responsible for building a brand that inspires and educates our communities, team members, investors, and the public at large. You’ll help us create our design language, rooted in simplicity, clarity, and rational thought. It’s no-frills and utilitarian. Quality comes from deleting rather than adding.

Your day-to-day as Brand Design Lead includes the concepting and execution of brand and design projects that communicate our company’s mission, technology, and team. Deliverables include websites, publications, and brand guides, decks, one-pagers, digital brochures, investor materials, and corporate communications.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners, setting the creative bar and ensuring cohesion across all deliverables
• Independently drive design and brand projects from concepting to execution, and also know when to step back and gather feedback or ask for help
• Oversee design systems and ensure visual consistency, ensuring materials are executed to a high level of craft and clarity across all mediums and audiences
• Lead thoughtful, constructive critiques, where we focus on the work not the ego
• Define, refine, and protect brand aesthetics
• Sketch, storyboard, and prototype websites, publications, and brand guides, decks, one-pagers, digital brochures, investor materials, and corporate communications
• Be a team player with a "no task is too small" attitude, but also know when to delegate and how to mentor others
• Maintain asset libraries and archives

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in graphic, brand or communication design experience at a creative agency, brand, technology company or similar environment
• 3+ years of experience leading projects, teams or cross-functional initiatives
• Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Exceptional graphic design fundamentals, typographic sensibilities, strong grids, hierarchy and systems thinking
• Experience building and evolving design systems
• Proven ability to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment, while having the vision and autonomy to create systems and process for the future
• Confident in the work, but balanced by healthy self-doubt (most of us are usually wrong)
• Smart, kind, creative, collaborative
• Versatile in verbal and visual communication
• Able to mentor junior designers and contribute to a healthy team culture
• Able to maintain a calm confidence in challenging situations
• Able to prioritize tasks from a big pile