Senior Brand Designer, Articulate

• Our ideal candidate is a strategic and thoughtful advocate of design thinking, highly skilled in modern design tools, and deeply proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• You have an expert design eye and a commitment to ensuring quality and consistency across all brand touchpoints
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of design experience with a strong portfolio in integrated brand campaigns, web experiences, and experiential design, ideally in an agency setting or in-house role with a wide purview
• Proven success in brand campaigns and agency work, focused on compelling visual narratives
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma with a strong understanding of its features
• Demonstrated experience leading campaign art direction across digital and web environments, including collaboration with performance or acquisition-focused teams
• Expertise in visual design & art direction, including brand identity and guidelines
• Strong understanding of brand identity and a power of storytelling, you foster a creative culture of innovation, positivity, and growth
• Excellent presentation and communication skills; able to align creative direction with strategic business needs
• Experience mentoring teams and providing constructive feedback
• Self-motivated, able to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines while being a resilient and reliable team player working closely with cross-functional teams

Desirable

• Articulate is seeking a Sr Brand Designer II to shape our brand’s visual identity and lead the development of large-scale campaigns, web experiences, and scalable brand systems
• This role plays a critical part in campaign art direction and acquisition-facing surfaces — ensuring our brand shows up with clarity and impact across digital, web, and experiential touchpoints
• While this position does not include direct reports, you will act as a mentor and guide for other designers on the team, sharing your expertise and providing valuable feedback to enhance execution and strengthen our design capabilities
• You will be expected to independently scope and lead campaign and web initiatives, partnering closely with GTM, Messaging, and Product to ensure cohesive, outcome-driven creative execution
• Design Thinking & Storytelling
• Drive the development and evolution of our brand identity across campaigns, web journeys, and high-visibility brand moments, ensuring consistency and alignment across all touchpoints
• Lead art direction for integrated campaigns and web experiences, ensuring brand expression translates effectively across acquisition surfaces, landing pages, and product-adjacent storytelling
• Develop visually compelling designs that engage and resonate with audiences, applying design principles and aesthetics to create meaningful narratives
• Guide creative approaches that can scale across teams, vendors, and collaborators, ensuring systems-level design thinking translates into high-quality execution
• Design Execution
• Own the execution of major campaign and web experience projects, including art direction, asset development, and optimization of high-impact acquisition surfaces
• Ensure design consistency and high fidelity across brand guidelines, toolkits, and cross-medium assets
• Influence, guide, and oversee specialty designers, external vendor partners, or other collaborators as necessary to complete and execute projects to the highest caliber
• Independently scope, prioritize, and manage complex design projects while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery and creative excellence
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Effectively manage cross-functional stakeholders by presenting work with clarity and confidence, guiding teams through creative rationale to enable informed, strategic decision-making and ensure alignment on high-impact brand outcomes
• Collaborate effectively with marketing, messaging, product, development leads, and other design talent to ensure that your proposed designs are consistent, strategically sound, and providing optimal impact
• Act as creative thought partner to cross-functional partners, articulating design rationale and championing best practices that contribute to the overall brand and product experience
• Partner closely with development teams to problem-solve in real time, ensuring creative intent is preserved through implementation
• Team Citizenship
• Proactively lead design processes to shape design approaches to ensure efficiency and foster collaboration across teams
• Serve as a mentor to other designers, offering constructive feedback and sharing knowledge to help them excel and contribute to the brand experience
• Promote a culture of openness, feedback, and inclusivity while evolving the brand design system and visual language at scale
• Act as a bridge between internal design peers and external collaborators, modeling best practices in communication, quality control, and feedback

• The application window for this position is expected to close 90 days from the original posting date