Sr Brand Designer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Own and evolve the core brand system: brand guidelines, component libraries, templates, and asset libraries that product pods rely on every day.; Raise brand quality across pods. Not by policing, but by showing the way.

Posted 7/21/2026Verified active Jul 25, 2026, 12:36 AMfull-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Candidates should emphasize their expertise in brand design, particularly in developing and evolving brand systems, visual identity standards, and effective communication with cross-functional teams. A strong portfolio demonstrating coherent brand thinking and the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable guidance is essential.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Brand Design ExpertiseSystems ThinkingBrand Identity DevelopmentStrong Communication SkillsMastery of Design Tools

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Hard Skills

Brand System DevelopmentVisual Identity StandardsMotion DesignFigmaAdobe Creative Suite

Soft Skills

CollaborationStrategic ThinkingProblem SolvingConstructive FeedbackCuriosity

Tools & Technologies

Design ToolsAI in DesignDigital Brand Touchpoints

Industry Keywords

Brand GuidelinesComponent LibrariesAsset LibrariesCreative PracticeFinancial Ownership

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the core brand system: brand guidelines, component libraries, templates, and asset libraries that product pods rely on every day.
Raise brand quality across pods by building resources and creating conditions for others to do their best brand work.
Develop and maintain visual identity standards across Payward's portfolio of brands, keeping them coherent as products grow and evolve.
Define and document how our brand should behave across emerging surfaces, AI generated outputs, motion and new product categories.
Collaborate with pod designers, marketers, and product partners to understand where the system is breaking down and fix it at the root.
Translate complex concepts into clear, usable brand guidance that non-brand specialists can apply with confidence.
Lead design reviews with a constructive, generative approach: your feedback opens doors, it doesn't close them.
Stay ahead of how design tools (including AI) are changing creative practice, and shape how Payward's brand system adapts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep experience as a brand designer in agency, in-house, or both, with a track record of building and evolving systems.
Systems thinking as a default mode, spotting structural problems and solving for the whole rather than the instance.
Strong experience with motion or working alongside motion designers; comfort with the full range of digital brand touchpoints.
Brand identity expertise: understanding how visual systems create meaning, trust, and recognition at scale.
Strategic affinity — comfortable working upstream of execution, helping define what the brand should stand for before execution.
A strong communicator who can articulate brand decisions clearly to designers, PMs, marketers, and leadership.
A portfolio showing clear visual systems, coherent brand thinking, and evidence that your work made others' work better.
Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; fluency with how design tooling, including AI, is reshaping brand practice.
Genuine curiosity about crypto, technology, and what financial ownership means for individuals around the world.