Manager, Brand Design & Experience

About the RoleAbaxx is building smarter markets to change the way the world does business. The Strategy Office brings together strategists, communicators, designers, and subject matter experts to shape Abaxx's corporate narrative, culture, and brand — work that directly shapes how Abaxx is understood by the market participants, partners, employees, investors, and other stakeholders who follow, use, invest in, and help build smarter markets. This is a senior design role that combines hands-on visual craft with creative leadership — you'll both produce and direct work, moving between concept development, execution, creative review, and cross-functional collaboration. You'll own Abaxx's visual identity and the identities of its portfolio brands, lead design across the Company's highest-priority initiatives, and help set the standards and processes that let other designers and partners work consistently within that identity. You'll work alongside a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds spanning commodities, economic research, engineering, applied technology, and journalism. What You'll DoBrand & visual identityManage and evolve Abaxx's visual identity and its portfolio brands' identities — typography, color, iconography, imagery, illustration, layout, and logo applicationBuild and maintain brand libraries, guidelines, templates, and presentation systems that enable teams across the organization to apply the brand consistentlyCreative direction & executionLead and execute design across Abaxx's highest-priority brand initiatives — campaigns, product launches, events, partnerships, websites, presentations, advertising, social content, and commercial materialsTranslate brand strategy and complex business concepts into distinctive visual ideas and scalable design systems across digital, print, motion, and physical applicationsSet visual direction for major campaigns, providing creative guidance, design feedback, and quality control from concept through deliveryOwn selected projects end to end, coordinating internal stakeholders, designers, agencies, developers, and external production partnersWeb & productGuide the visual design of Abaxx's websites, developing concepts, layouts, and specifications for web developers to implementPartner with product and UI/UX teams on visual brand direction and feedback, without assuming ownership of product designCross-functional partnershipWork closely with communications, marketing, web, product, commercial, and technology teams to maintain a coherent visual identity across Abaxx's ecosystem of businessesCollaborate with specialists in motion, animation, illustration, photography, and environmental design to build the assets and systems major initiatives requireTeam & processProvide direction and mentorship to graphic designers and external creative partners, raising the quality and consistency of work produced across the organizationEstablish design-review and production processes that let teams move efficiently while holding a consistently high standard of craft What You Bring6+ years in brand design, visual identity, or creative design, with a track record of growing responsibility and readiness to operate at a senior individual-contributor or emerging design-lead levelA strong portfolio showing exceptional visual craft, conceptual thinking, and range across campaigns, events, layout, design systems, and visual storytellingAdvanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, including building and maintaining shared libraries, templates, and brand documentationStrong visual judgment and the ability to turn brand strategy and complex subject matter into distinctive, coherent visual systemsComfortable operating as both a hands-on designer and a strategic partnerCollaborative and receptive to feedback, with the confidence to hold a point of view while staying open to challenge and better ideasExperience giving thoughtful, actionable feedback to designers, agencies, developers, and external partnersCurious about emerging creative technologies and open to experimenting with AI-enabled tools as accelerators, while holding a high bar for originality, craft, and accuracyHighly organized, able to maintain design quality and consistency across simultaneous projects, multiple brands, and distributed contributorsA degree in design or a related field is helpful, though equivalent professional experience is equally valuedExperience in technology, financial services, media, a public company, or an agency environment is helpful About UsAbaxx Technologies is building next-generation digital market infrastructure where identity, security, and intelligent automation converge. Our platform ecosystem spans decentralized identity (ID++), enterprise authentication, AI and agent orchestration, secure messaging, digital signing and evidentiary workflows, and cloud-native and regulated financial technology systems. In addition to our technology platforms, Abaxx operates the Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, supporting physically-settled benchmark futures in energy transition markets. As our platforms scale across regulated environments, we hold engineering excellence, release confidence, and operational reliability to the highest standard. CompensationBase salary $100,000 - $125,000 commensurate with experience and geographical location. Equity, bonus, and benefits. Confidentiality This role has access to highly sensitive legal, governance, strategic, and intellectual property information and is expected to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.Equal Opportunity Statement Abaxx is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace free from discrimination and harassment.Disclaimer This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify duties at any time based on business needs.Application NotesApplicants should submit a cover letter and portfolio with their application. Candidates may also be asked to provide additional work samples or discuss selected projects as part of the interview process. Abaxx welcomes thoughtful use of AI-enabled tools for research, analysis, and workflow support. Design materials submitted as part of the application process must represent the candidate's own work and clearly reflect their visual judgment, conceptual thinking, and design process.