Brand Design Lead

About the Role

As a Brand Design Lead at Descript, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our brand identity. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will define and execute strategies across prospect- and customer-facing surfaces. You will manage agency and vendor relationships that expand our reach and our creative thinking. Your work will help us deepen affinity with our current customer community, and reach new audiences.

What You’ll Do

• Continuously up-level our brand’s visual language: Enact best practices for expressing a distinctive brand sensibility and bringing our product to life
• Blend strategy and craft: Tackle unbounded design problems; develop standards and guiding principles that make design decision-making fast and consistent
• Make a whole lot of stuff: Shape Descript’s narrative, support growth efforts, and enhance product launches, all by by producing designs and assets for web, social media, email, events, and more
• Enable scale: Serve as a design partner for external agencies who scale our growth and sales programs
• Build relationships: Within the Marketing team and beyond, collaborate thoughtfully, anticipate and address sources of misalignment proactively; mentor other creative marketers

What You Bring

• Experience: 10+ years as a Brand Designer, ideally in a start up and/or SaaS setting. Proficiency in marketing technology platforms, operations, and tools, including website CMS and social media formats.
• A hunger for going deep: Desire to learn technical products—and their users—inside and out.
• Organizational and communication skills: Proven methods for staying organized, collaborating across functions, and communicating with stakeholders at all levels of a company.
• Thoroughness and pragmatism: A keen eye for detail and craftsmanship without compromising on deadlines; knowing when to find a workable solution, versus the perfect one.
• Multitasking ability: Comfort working on multiple projects simultaneously, with the ability to drive and prioritize as needed.
• Ownership and initiative: Willingness to take ownership and make progress in the face of ambiguity and dynamism.

The base salary range for this role is $140,000-$180,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.