Brand Design Manager, Plaid
Growth
$175.2-273.6k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Be an early applicant
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$175.2-273.6k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7–10+ years of professional design experience
- 2–3+ years leading or managing brand designers and production designers
- A portfolio demonstrating strong craft across multi-channel marketing work
- Experience with performance marketing creative (paid social, display ads, email)
- Ability to coach designers while directly contributing to the work
- Experience building systems, templates, and scalable processes
- Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills
- Bonus: experience with animation tools (Jitter), as well as production design tools designed for efficiency (Figma Buzz, Celtra, or Bannerflow); fintech/SaaS background; agency management
- We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description
What the job involves
- As the Brand Design Manager for Growth Marketing, you will lead and mentor a team of brand and production designers, manage external agencies, and set creative direction across all growth marketing surfaces
- You will design and deliver end-to-end campaigns that drive outsized impact and pipeline, while building scalable Figma templates, processes, and creative standards
- The role includes overseeing production workflows to ensure efficient, high-quality output, partnering closely with Growth Marketing leads to develop campaigns from concept through launch, and working cross-functionally to track insights that inform future creative
- You will also uphold and evolve the Plaid brand across all channels and contribute to the Brand Design leadership team and broader design culture
- Creating high-craft, high-impact creative that hits pipeline and performance goals
- Balancing velocity with quality in a fast-moving environment
- Leading a team, both as a manager and as a direct contributor
- Establishing systems and rituals that scale with increasing demand
- Partnering closely with marketing stakeholders to ship work weekly
- Managing agencies and building an external creative bench
- Joining an incredible team filled with talented, passionate and humble designers and contributing to our design culture
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. About a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs). The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts.
This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
- We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
- From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
- We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
- Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
- We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
- Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
- We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
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