Brand Designer

Responsibilities

Brand & Content Design

• Own end-to-end design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing content, including social, web, print, and presentations.
• Ensure high-fidelity output that elevates the Stellar brand.

Creative Strategy & Execution

• Develop narrative-driven visual concepts.
• Contribute to the evolution of the design system and extend new executions while maintaining a high standard of quality.

Operational Autonomy

• Independently manage the full production lifecycle, from scoping and revisions through delivery.
• Prioritize concurrent projects with minimal day-to-day oversight.

Collaboration & Agency Management

• Partner with internal stakeholders, creative leadership, and external agencies.
• Provide constructive feedback and share design best practices to ensure consistent brand excellence.

Team Leadership & Innovation

• Lead creative development on high-visibility projects.
• Improve team processes, including introducing scalable components and emerging AI tools to enhance creative output.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in brand design, with a strong mix of agency and in-house expertise.
• Robust portfolio demonstrating judgment, coherent visual systems, and clear brand thinking across digital advertising, web, social, motion, company merchandise, and/or physical collateral.
• Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with forward-looking fluency in emerging AI design tools.
• Proven ability to build upon and extend brand design systems, including defining and executing high-level creative direction.
• Experience managing end-to-end projects and liaising with external agencies and freelance partners to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Strong interpersonal skills for partnering effectively across marketing, strategy, content, and communications teams.
• Ability to present work to senior stakeholders, clearly articulate rationale, and advocate for strong creative decisions.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience integrating generative AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, or Envato into creative and production workflows.
• Familiarity with the Stellar ecosystem, open-source software, decentralized finance, or the broader fintech landscape.
• Passion for building accessible, equitable financial tools; prior experience with mission-driven or nonprofit organizations.
• Experience contributing to or evolving design systems within growing, fast-paced creative teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $100,000–$130,000, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• Lumen-denominated grants.
• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, with most plans covered at 100% for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off and 15 company holidays, including a company-wide holiday break.
• Paid parental leave for all parents and paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents.
• Gym reimbursement of $80 per month.
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Health and dependent care FSA accounts.
• Commuter benefits with a $250 monthly employer contribution.
• Health Savings Account with monthly employer contribution.
• Family-building benefits through Kindbody.
• Wellbeing benefits, including One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace.
• Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year.
• Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
• Company retreats.