Senior Brand Designer, Mercury
Growth
$109.5-152.1k
US salary range dependent on candidate location. Canadian employees (any location): 115,000 - 143,700 CAD. The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs)
Banking services for startups and small businesses
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Banking services for startups and small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$109.5-152.1k
US salary range dependent on candidate location. Canadian employees (any location): 115,000 - 143,700 CAD. The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make scaling tech companies simpler with a personalized banking stack for startups, and power the next generation of companies that will shape the American industry.
Role
Who you are
- We want someone who sees testing as a creative tool: a way to take smart risks, learn fast, and make the work better
- We want someone who's excited to experiment, willing to try unexpected creative directions, and curious enough to follow the data somewhere new
- 5+ years of experience in brand design, art direction, or visual communication, ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience
- A portfolio that demonstrates both craft and strategic thinking — work that's beautiful and purposeful, with evidence that you think about why it works, not just how it looks
- Proficiency in Figma; motion and video editing experience is a strong plus
- A genuine point of view on brand. You understand that great growth creative isn't a departure from brand — it's an expression of it
- A real appetite for creative testing and an analytical mind. You’re fluent in both the quantitative data and the qualitative signal, curious about what’s working and why, willing to take risks to find out, and able to translate findings into better creative and into the brand
- Genuine fluency with AI as part of your creative practice. You stay close to AI design tooling and use it both to scale and iterate on creative quickly and to produce bespoke, high-quality assets, and you’re generous about sharing what’s working with the people around you
- The ability to work at volume and speed without losing the thread — you move from brief to shipped asset quickly, and you know when to push back
- A genuine pull toward the growth surface itself. You see paid, lifecycle, and growth channels as an underexplored canvas for the brand, and you’re excited to own the creative vision for it to influence the brand direction
- Strong communication skills: you can articulate creative decisions, take feedback, and hold a point of view under pressure
- Experience with paid social platforms (Meta, LinkedIn) and familiarity with ad spec requirements is a plus
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Brand Designer who brings depth in growth and performance creative — and who believes that the best creative work doesn't just look good, it earns its place. At Mercury, we think paid creative should be tested, iterated on, and informed by data. Not at the expense of craft, but because of it
- This is a first-of-its-kind focus area for the Brand Studio. It isn't about producing ads at volume; it's about establishing a creative vision for a largely untapped surface and building the discipline around it from the ground up. You'll contribute to the full range of Brand Studio work while owning how Mercury shows up in growth channels, and using those channels as a canvas for what the brand can become
- Contribute across the full range of Brand Studio work — campaigns, web, social, and brand initiatives — alongside a team that holds craft and intention to a high standard
- Own the creative vision for Mercury's growth channels — establishing what brand excellence looks like at the performance layer and building the standards that sustain it
- Design paid ad creative across static, motion, and social formats, with a point of view on how each placement can reinforce Mercury's brand while driving results
- Use creative testing as a strategic tool by developing hypotheses, taking creative risks, and translating what you learn, both quantitative results and qualitative signal, back into stronger creative direction and into the brand itself
- Partner closely with growth marketing on campaign briefs, iteration cycles, and channel strategy
- Take Mercury's product UI and translate it into compelling visual moments for campaign and growth contexts
- Design for lifecycle marketing: email imagery, landing pages, and other conversion-focused touchpoints
- Art-direct video and collaborate with production partners as campaigns require
- Build scalable creative systems — templates, asset libraries, and workflows — that give the team velocity without sacrificing craft
- Contribute to Mercury's brand system as it intersects with growth and performance contexts
- Use AI tooling in your day-to-day work to scale and test growth creative faster and to produce bespoke imagery and assets, contributing to the workflows the team is building
Our take
Frustrated by the archaic, fee-laden banking services offered to entrepreneurs, the founders of Mercury set out to create a better solution. They envisioned a platform that was dynamic, tech-driven, and free from unnecessary fees.
Mercury delivers on this vision by automating business payment processes, offering FDIC-insured accounts, and providing full API access, empowering entrepreneurs with greater control and efficiency. This approach stands in stark contrast to traditional startup banking, which often burdens young businesses with high fees and limited functionality.
By prioritizing user experience and offering a free service tier, Mercury has attracted over 200,000 businesses and, off the back of a $300 million Series C round, achieved a $5.2B valuation as of 2026. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, Mercury is poised for continued growth, constantly adding new features and expanding its team to further disrupt the industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2026
$200m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $650.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Annual $1K learning & development budget
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Weekly $100 food budget
- Monthly $100 wellness budget
- Monthly $50 cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea and beverages, plus lunch and snacks
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401K/RRSP)
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Zhang
(Co-Founder & COO)Jason graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(Co-Founder & CEO)Immad graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Computer Science. He then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. He also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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