Brand Design Lead, Pliant
Digital corporate credit card solutions
Job no longer available
Digital corporate credit card solutions
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in visual communication or brand design
- 5+ years of experience leading teams in a hands-on capacity
- Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.); motion design skills are a plus
- Expertise in developing and applying brand guidelines to create high-impact creative assets across various formats. Your skills span typography, layout, photography, illustration, motion, and video
- Strong understanding of target audiences, brand strategy, and competitive landscapes to inform and refine design decisions
- Excellent at building relationships across teams to ensure the brand is consistently represented at its best
- Skilled at managing time and prioritising tasks effectively, delivering on expectations while balancing performance and brand consistency
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Open to feedback and dedicated to continuous improvement in your craft
- Experience in fintech or B2B is a plus, but not required
What the job involves
- Join Us in Building the World's Best Corporate Credit Card Experience as our next Head of Brand Design (m/f/d)
- At Pliant, we recognise that design is fundamental to our success. We are committed to building a world-class design team to drive our vision forward. In this leadership role, you will take ownership of our brand’s visual evolution and apply your creative expertise to shape its future. Your work will play a pivotal role in positioning Pliant as a design-driven organisation, authentically integrating our brand identity across all functions
- Maintain and refine brand guidelines to deliver high-quality, strategic outputs across all brand touchpoints—both internally and externally
- Create impactful brand assets and marketing materials by collaborating across disciplines, including photography, video, performance ads, business development collateral, merchandise, and more
- Partner with marketing managers, content strategists, copywriters, and fellow designers to drive strategy, generate ideas, and execute deliverables
- Brief and oversee external creative resources to ensure brand consistency and meet quality benchmarks
- Own and elevate Pliant’s multi-channel brand visual experience, producing world-class assets such as ad creatives, white-papers, social media campaigns, pitch decks, and digital campaigns
- Manage, mentor, and motivate the design team, fostering a collaborative environment and driving professional growth
- Continuously improve collaboration processes and workflows
Application process
- ❗Please attach your CV and portfolio (PDF or a link to your online portfolio) with your application
Our take
The corporate credit card industry, historically dominated by giants like AmEx, has seen rapid disruption and growth over recent years. An influx of VC investment boosted smaller outfits like Divvy and Brex Inc. to multi-billion dollar operations, and this has cracked open the market to a host of smaller fintech startups.
Pliant is a German company entering the scene, but it’s a competitive one. It's hoping to stand out by prioritising seamless software integrations, competitive cashback, and a new optional feature offsetting travel-related CO2 emissions. The latter is incredibly novel and has undoubtedly won the company some press in an increasingly sustainability-oriented climate.
Plaint’s offering of both physical and digital cards, as well as its suite of advantages and services have enabled the company to be highly adaptable within the growing payments market. The company has, thus far, entered seven additional European markets and expanded its customer portfolio sixfold. Following successful funding rounds, Pliant is set to further expand operations and its business reach.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
233% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2024
$19.6m
SERIES A
Jan 2024
$8.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $76.2m
Company benefits
- Home office and remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Mobility discount
- Budget for professional development and training
- Railcard
- Monthly food allowance
- Gympass
- Weekly mindfulness sessions
- Team events
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Fabian Turner
(CPO/COO)Previously the Head of Operations at Lendico, and went on to serve as CPO at FinCompare.
Malte Rau
(CEO)Previously a Portfolio Manager and Head of Fintech Investments at Global Growth Cap, they then went on to found Geldspeicher GmbH.
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