Brand Designer

About the role

Join the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) to help shape the next chapter of the Stellar brand. As a collaborative, growth-minded Designer, you’ll elevate the visual narrative across global digital and marketing channels, partnering closely with creative leadership and diverse stakeholders to bring the Stellar mission to life. This high-ownership role offers autonomy to manage production lifecycles and agency partnerships while providing space to innovate design systems and make a tangible impact alongside senior mentors.

Responsibilities

• Brand & Content Design: Own end-to-end design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing content (social, web, print, presentations), ensuring high-fidelity output that elevates the Stellar brand.
• Creative Strategy & Execution: Develop narrative-driven visual concepts and contribute to the evolution of the design system, extending new executions while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Operational Autonomy: Independently manage the full production lifecycle—from scoping and revisions to delivery—while prioritizing concurrent projects with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Collaboration & Agency Management: Partner with internal stakeholders, Creative leadership, and external agencies, providing constructive feedback and sharing design best practices to ensure consistent brand excellence.
• Team Leadership & Innovation: Lead creative development on high-visibility projects and actively improve team processes, including the introduction of scalable components and emerging AI tools to enhance creative output.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in brand design, with a strong mix of agency and in-house expertise.
• Robust portfolio demonstrating judgment, coherent visual systems, and clear brand thinking across digital (ads, web, social), motion, company merch (SWAG), and/or physical collateral.
• Design mastery in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with a forward-looking fluency in emerging AI design tools.
• Brand System Expertise: Proven ability to build upon and extend brand design systems, with a track record of defining and executing high-level creative direction.
• Production Independence: Experience managing end-to-end projects, including liaising with external agencies and freelance partners to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Operational Agility: Proven capacity to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Collaborative Mindset: Strong interpersonal skills for partnering effectively across marketing, strategy, content, and communications teams.
• Communication & Advocacy: Ability to present work to senior stakeholders, clearly articulate rationale, and advocate for strong creative decisions.

Nice to have

• AI Fluency: Experience integrating generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Envato) into creative and production workflows.
• Domain Expertise: Familiarity with the Stellar ecosystem, open-source software, decentralized finance (DeFi), or the broader fintech landscape.
• Mission Alignment: Passion for building accessible, equitable financial tools; prior experience with mission-driven or non-profit organizations.
• System Stewardship: Experience contributing to or evolving design systems within growing, fast-paced creative teams.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee and dependents.
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays, including a company-wide holiday break.
• Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents.
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month).
• Life & ADD insurance (up to $50K).
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 401K with 4% match.
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts.
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution.
• Family-building benefits through Kindbody.
• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace).
• L&D budget of $1,500/year.
• Daily lunch and snacks in-office.
• Company retreats.

Pay

Competitive base salary range of $100,000 - $130,000, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additional lumen-denominated grants are also offered.

About Stellar

Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network built for financial products and services, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. The Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets and send and convert currencies in real time, creating real-world utility.

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations, while also developing resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real-world utility. As a nonprofit, SDF prioritizes the health of the Stellar network, ecosystem, and mission above all else.