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    Manager, Brand Design

    Articulate
    United States
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    10 days ago
    💰$129,900 - $172,144
    AI toolingteam managementbrand designSaaS

    Requirements

    • 5-7+ years of professional creative experience, with 1-3+ years in management
    • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, or related field
    • Expertise in building strategic concepts and campaigns, and codifying visual assets across tactics
    • Passionate about end-to-end customer experience, integrating brand and product
    • Skilled in storytelling and weaving complex assets into cohesive narratives
    • Proficient with a variety of creative tools including Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Notion with ability to make informed technical recommendations
    • Avid user of AI tooling across use cases both within creative work and other opportunity areas
    • Knowledgeable in user-centered design principles, UI design, and best practices
    • Ability to translate business objectives into customer-focused design solutions
    • Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire cross-functional teams
    • Proactive in improving processes and maximizing team efficiency
    • Resilient, reliable, and optimistic

    What You'll Do

    • Lead and guide a team of brand designers ranging from junior to senior, reinforcing established strategic and creative direction while fostering growth through constructive feedback
    • Provide hands-on mentorship, helping team members hone their creative skills and balance individual project priorities
    • Communicate with a calm, reliable leadership voice that builds team confidence, eases day-to-day anxiety, and supports a positive, motivated team environment
    • Foster a culture of experimentation, rapid ideation, and comfort with AI tooling in strategic applications for increased velocity and impact across brand creative
    • Ensure team members are operating at the appropriate level of autonomy, with Senior II designers leading project scoping and execution
    • Translate established marketing and brand direction into actionable design guidance for your team, ensuring clarity and consistency in execution
    • Manage discovery and design decisions to align user needs with business goals, ensuring impactful and strategic outcomes
    • Utilize systems thinking to create scalable, consistent visual assets that support campaign and brand objectives
    • Leverage AI tooling in strategic ways to accelerate experimentation, production, and enable more creative flexibility
    • Guide the execution of impactful design solutions aligned to established creative direction for marketing, digital, and campaign assets that reinforce brand identity and support GTM goals
    • Work efficiently with design systems, templates, repeatable processes, and guidelines to ensure scalability and consistency
    • Support scoping and delegate complex projects into simple, manageable design tasks that the team can execute effectively
    • Identify when external creative partners are needed, defining criteria, reviewing portfolios/capabilities, making final selection decisions
    • Balance player coach responsibilities as needed if managing a team of less than 6
    • Participate in planning conversations with GTM partners to understand priorities and ensure your team’s work is aligned
    • Collaborate with brand and messaging design leaders to ensure consistent execution against established priorities
    • Collaborate with design leaders in product design, messaging design, and brand design to unlock better ways to connect the full customer journey
    • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure your team’s design deliverables align to established brand direction and support day-to-day business needs
    • Work closely with the Messaging Design and GTM partners to facilitate cohesive and productive brainstorming sessions
    • Actively participate in team discussions and brainstorming sessions, fostering a positive, inclusive environment
    • Lead efforts to evolve and scale design processes in collaboration with Creative Ops and Brand leadership that support creativity and alignment across disciplines
    • Regularly share industry insights, design trends, and best practices to help the team stay current and innovative
    • Support colleagues by providing constructive feedback, offering assistance when needed, and ensuring smooth team operations

    Nice to Have

    • Previous experience working in a SaaS or software product-led company
    • Familiarity with image design systems and digital design systems and their implementation to scale design efforts

    Benefits

    • Bonus eligible
    • Robust suite of benefits

    About Articulate

    Articulate develops a workplace training platform that provides online courses for management systems.

    New York, NY, US
    250 - 500
    Education