Senior Brand Designer

About the role

Manyone's New York team is looking for a Senior Brand Designer to lead identity and brand-expression work for U.S.-based and global clients. You'll take brands from positioning to living systems—identity, typography, visual language, motion, and guidelines—and make sure they hold up across every touchpoint, digital and physical. We're a strategy-design hybrid, and our brand designers work at that same intersection. You'll be in the strategy conversations, not downstream of them; you'll run your own client relationships; and you'll make the work yourself. If you want a brand role where the thinking and the craft are the same job, this is it.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand identity projects from discovery and positioning through concept, design system and launch
• Have your own client relationships day to day—lead the conversation, and bring the client along with the work
• Partner with strategists to turn positioning and narrative into distinctive visual expression—and push back when the strategy needs it
• Develop visual identities, typography, color, imagery direction and motion principles
• Build brand guidelines and design systems that teams inside and outside Manyone can actually use
• Partner with digital designers to extend brands into products and experiences
• Plan and facilitate creative workshops with clients and cross-functional teams
• Mentor designers across the team and contribute to our creative culture

Requirements

• 5+ years in brand or visual identity design, with a significant part of that in an agency or consultancy
• Portfolio of launched identity work that shows conceptual depth, typographic craft, and systems thinking applied to digital products and/or interfaces
• Comfort working ahead of the brief—framing problems, contributing to positioning, and defending design decisions in business terms
• Experience leading client conversations and presenting to senior stakeholders
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Excited and experienced utilizing and exploring new (AI) tools
• Experience building and documenting brand guidelines and design systems
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Ability to be at our Dumbo studio three days a week

Nice to have

• Motion design and animation
• Experience extending brands into digital products, environments or packaging
• Art direction of photography, illustration or 3D

Pay

$100K–$140K, depending on experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and life insurance
• Hybrid work schedule, two days a week from home
• Generous remote work and vacation policy
• A genuinely international team, with regular collaboration across Denmark, Sweden, and the wider group