Articulate

Senior Brand Designer

Articulate

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $122,600 - $183,800 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Design Thinking & Storytelling: Drive the development and evolution of our brand identity, ensuring consistency and alignment across all touchpoints, including creative concepts, art direction, events, branded experiences, digital microsites, and large-scale marketing campaigns.
  • Lead concept development and visual storytelling for high-impact brand campaigns, crafting bold, resonant narratives that elevate our positioning and align seamlessly with brand and business strategy.
  • Develop visually compelling designs that engage and resonate with audiences, applying design principles and aesthetics to create meaningful narratives.
  • Guide creative approaches that can scale across teams, vendors, and collaborators, ensuring systems-level design thinking translates into high-quality execution.
  • Design Execution: Own the execution of major identity and branded experience projects, including campaigns, concepts, asset development, and designing for events.
  • Ensure design consistency and high fidelity across brand guidelines, toolkits, and cross-medium assets.
  • Influence, guide, and oversee specialty designers, external vendor partners, or other collaborators as necessary to complete and execute projects to the highest caliber.
  • Independently scope, prioritize, and manage complex design projects while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery and creative excellence.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effectively manage cross-functional stakeholders by presenting work with clarity and confidence, guiding teams through creative rationale to enable informed, strategic decision-making and ensure alignment on high-impact brand outcomes.
  • Collaborate effectively with marketing, messaging, product, production leads, and other design talent to ensure that your proposed designs are consistent and impactful across all customer touchpoints.
  • Act as a creative thought partner to cross-functional partners, articulating design rationale and championing best practices that contribute to the overall brand and product experience.
  • Partner closely with production and vendor teams to problem-solve in real time, ensuring creative intent is preserved through implementation.
  • Team Citizenship: Proactively lead design processes to shape design approaches to ensure efficiency and foster collaboration across teams.
  • Serve as a mentor to other designers, offering constructive feedback and sharing knowledge to help them excel and contribute to the brand experience.
  • Promote a culture of openness, feedback, and inclusivity while evolving the brand design system and visual language at scale.
  • Act as a bridge between internal design peers and external collaborators, modeling best practices in communication, quality control, and feedback.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of design experience with a strong portfolio in brand, visual storytelling, and experiential design, ideally in an agency setting or in-house role with a wide purview
  • Proven success in brand campaigns and agency work, focused on compelling visual narratives
  • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma with a strong understanding of its features
  • Expertise in visual design & art direction, including brand identity and guidelines
  • Strong understanding of brand identity and a power of storytelling, you foster a creative culture of innovation, positivity, and growth
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills; able to align creative direction with strategic business needs
  • Experience mentoring teams and providing constructive feedback
  • Passionate about building iconic brand moments, creating unique event experiences, and developing identity systems that scale across new formats and channels
  • Self-motivated, able to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines while being a resilient and reliable team player working closely with cross-functional teams
Benefits
  • This position is also bonus eligible.
  • This position is eligible for Articulate’s robust suite of benefits which are detailed here.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
graphic designvisual storytellingexperiential designbrand identityart directiondesign principlesdesign executionproject managementAdobe Creative SuiteFigma
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringcreative thinkingpresentation skillsfeedbackproblem-solvingteam leadershipstrategic decision-makingcreativity
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design