Brand Design Lead, Brand Studio

Responsibilities

Creative Leadership & Design Excellence

• Lead brand design within Motive’s Brand Studio, setting a high bar for craft, consistency, and brand expression.
• Lead visual creative direction for campaigns, activations, and brand initiatives with Brand Studio and Marketing leadership.
• Provide hands-on design leadership for key moments, helping sell concepts and creative direction to stakeholders and executives.
• Ensure the brand system is consistently and effectively applied across regions, channels, and formats.

Team Leadership & Global Collaboration

• Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of designers across the US, Mexico and Pakistan.
• Establish design standards, feedback rituals, and development paths to elevate team performance and morale.
• Foster collaboration across time zones and act as a trusted creative partner to regional and global marketing teams.

Process, Systems & Scale

• Evolve Brand Studio processes to support global scale, speed, and quality.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems, toolkits, and documentation.
• Evaluate and develop AI-assisted creative workflows for ideation, exploration, localization, and production.
• Partner with Product Design, Marketing Ops, Content, and other teams to integrate creative workflows with broader marketing systems.

Stakeholder Partnership & Influence

• Translate marketing and business objectives into compelling visual concepts and creative solutions.
• Present and articulate design rationale, creative strategy, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Balance creative ambition with practical execution, timelines, and resources.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, or creative roles.
• 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating identity design, brand systems, campaign design, and integrated marketing work.
• Experience remaining hands-on while providing creative direction, mentorship, and leadership.
• Experience leading and developing designers across regions or time zones.
• Deep expertise using Figma for collaborative design, system building, and team workflows.
• Experience building or evolving design systems and scalable creative processes.
• Strong conceptual thinking and exceptional attention to craft and detail.
• Ability to sell creative ideas and influence stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to executive audiences.

Compensation & Benefits

• ATS salary range: $163,000–$236,000 USD.
• Geographic pay ranges include $171,000–$236,000 USD for San Francisco, California; $163,000–$225,000 USD for certain U.S. metropolitan areas; and $163,000–$225,000 USD for other U.S. locations.
• Benefits may include health, pharmacy, optical and dental care, paid time off, sick time off, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.