Brand Designer, Blank Street

• The ideal candidate has best-in-class digital and print design skills, thinks strategically about their work, keeps up to date with contemporary branding and visual trends, and has impeccable taste
• Visually stunning and thoughtfully organized design portfolio
• Experience owning multi-channel & cohesive brand campaigns (print & digital)
• Experience working in spatial / environmental design systems
• Stellar communication skills, able to deliver real-time updates when sharing project ideas and roadblocks
• Ability to storytell and present concepts and designs to senior leadership
• Ability to articulate ideas and contribute insights in early concepting sessions
• Strong presentation skills, able to share work in an engaging and effective manner
• Excellent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, motion skills a huge plus
• Comfortable with passionate working environments, multiple concurrent projects, and tight turn-around times

• We’re looking for an in-house Brand Designer to help transform Blank Street into a world-class brand
• Reporting to our Senior Brand Design Manager, you’ll take our visual aesthetic to the next level across all channels: retail, print collateral, marketing campaigns + activations, social, merch and more!
• You will be working on a wide range of projects at every level of the process, from creative ideation to design and execution. Projects will be both assigned and self-directed
• Work in a highly collaborative cross-functional environment, and present high quality design executions
• Balance multiple fast-turn, high-priority projects at once with an ability to predict and stick to estimated completion timeline
• Strategize and ideate out-of-the-box design solutions, while simultaneously completing more straightforward and prescribed design tasks
• Develop physical assets (e.g. store signage, window & floor decals, cart elements, A-frames, voucher cards)
• Collaborate with marketing to execute a range of assets required for in-person activations
• Develop marketing assets (e.g. social posts & stories, retail and activation collateral, email campaigns)
• Develop supplemental assets (e.g. branded merchandise, bag designs, event posters, brand videos)
• Work with our tech team to ensure our brand identity is thoughtfully translated into web and app, and our user experience is as seamless as possible
• Develop and own the proofing and quality control process of all internally produced content, ensuring the final deliverable is free of any grammatical mistakes, design snafus, off-brand messaging
• Work within complex design systems (e.g. menu boards, marketing emails, retail labels, PDPs), implement recurring updates, and strategize ways to improve processes
• Demonstrate proactive organizational, time management, and prioritization skills when faced with ambiguous challenges

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. Blank Street covers the full premium for low and mid-tier employee-only plans
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off + company holidays
• Paid parental leave benefits
• Equity
• Learning and development opportunities. We're growing and we'd like for you to be a part of the journey
• A whole lot of Blank Street swag & coffee

Total funding: $52m

More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.