# Design Director, Brand & Marketing

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $195k – $310k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Brand Design, Creative Strategy, Team Management, Marketing Design, Motion Design, Web Design, Brand Guidelines, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Vendor Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Lead Perplexity's Brand and Marketing design team (~8 designers), owning strategy, operations, hiring, and cross-functional partnerships while partnering with a Creative Director on execution.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Lead and manage the Brand design team — currently ~8 people across brand, motion, web, enterprise marketing, and ambassadors
- Own hiring, team development, and career growth for the Brand org
- Own and define the long-term brand strategy, including the brand vision, narrative, and guidelines, ensuring design output aligns with overall company business objectives
- Partner with the Creative Director on maintaining visual quality and brand coherence across all touchpoints
- Run the operating model for Brand's involvement in launches, campaigns, partnerships, and GTM moments
- Build a production workflow that keeps up with Perplexity's speed without sacrificing craft
- Be the point of contact for cross-functional partners — Comms, Product Marketing, Partnerships, Events — so requests are triaged, scoped, and delivered
- Manage vendor relationships, contractors, and external agencies where needed
- Help shape the brand's creative ambition as the company scales

## What we're looking for
- Experience leading a brand or marketing design team of 5+ people at a consumer tech company
- Strong people management instincts — you know how to develop designers, give honest feedback, and build a team that's greater than the sum of its parts
- Operational strength — you can build intake processes, manage capacity, and keep a fast-moving team organized without creating bureaucracy
- Good creative taste and enough design fluency to earn the team's respect, even if you're not the one pushing pixels day-to-day
- Experience partnering with comms, marketing, and GTM teams on launches and campaigns
- Comfort working alongside a strong Creative Director — this role is about enabling great creative work, not competing with it

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