Senior Brand Designer

Role Overview

• Execute high-quality brand design across marketing channels including campaigns, landing pages, social, email, events, and print — championing strong typography, composition, and visual storytelling across brand work, setting a high bar for design craft.
• Lead brand design initiatives across campaigns, product touchpoints, partnerships, and major marketing moments.
• Elevate the quality and consistency of brand expression across all channels.
• Identify gaps in how the brand is applied and introduce refinements that improve clarity, scalability, and cohesion.
• Lead updates and improvements to the brand system, including guidelines, templates, documentation, and component libraries.
• Help define how the brand system evolves as Givebutter grows, ensuring it scales effectively across marketing, product, partnerships, and events.
• Partner with Product Design to ensure brand and product experiences feel cohesive and intentional.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders around strong creative solutions, helping resolve ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Present work and strategic design decisions clearly to partners and leadership.
• Mentor designers across the organization through critique, collaboration, and knowledge sharing; contribute to hiring, onboarding, and raising the creative bar across the team.
• Improve design workflows by identifying opportunities to streamline processes and increase team effectiveness.
• Partner with the Creative Director on large brand initiatives, brand refresh work, and long-term brand direction.

Requirements

• Have 7+ years of brand design experience with a portfolio demonstrating range and strong conceptual thinking and craft.
• Bring exceptional typography, composition, and visual storytelling skills.
• Have experience leading brand design initiatives across campaigns, product touchpoints, partnerships, and major marketing moments.
• Think strategically, laddering creative execution back to brand strategy pillars and goals, in order to maintain clear consistency and build strong brand equity.
• Have experience working across multiple brand channels, including marketing, product, digital, and experiential.
• Understand how to build and evolve design systems that scale across teams and contexts.
• Establish visual benchmarks that elevate the quality bar for brand expression across teams and channels.
• Can navigate ambiguity and help frame design problems, not just solve them.
• Are comfortable leading cross-functional conversations and aligning stakeholders on creative decisions.
• Provide thoughtful critique and mentorship that helps other designers grow.
• Balance high creative standards with pragmatism and speed.
• Are comfortable taking a brief, framing the problem clearly, and driving the work from concept through execution.
• Art direct where needed, and lead presentations of work from concept through execution.
• Influence creative thinking across teams while remaining collaborative, humble, and open to feedback.
• Thrive in environments where priorities shift, and strong opinions are welcome.

Benefits

• Remote Work: Work remotely from one of our 10 hubs (Austin, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Nashville).
• Health Insurance: We offer Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance covered 100% for employees as well as HSA and FSA accounts.
• Dependent Care Coverage: We offer coverage for dependents, with 50% of Medical, Dental, and Vision premiums covered for all eligible dependents.
• Mental Health: Givebutter health insurance plans come with access to a TalkSpace membership.
• 401k: We offer a 3% 401k match for all eligible employee's.
• Vacation and Holidays: Givebutter offers a Flexible PTO policy with uncapped vacation days and company-recognized holidays.
• Wellness Week: Givebutter closes for one week each summer to prioritize rest and recharge for the entire team.
• Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all parents and comprehensive leave planning management through Aidora.
• Family Care Support: Access a company-paid UrbanSitter membership plus care credits to book trusted, background-checked caregivers for childcare, senior care, pet care, and household support when you need it most.
• Home Office Stipend: Upgrade your home office with company-sponsored expenses, including high-quality laptops, monitors, and modern technology.
• Coworking Stipend: Enjoy a monthly stipend that gives you the freedom to work from coworking spaces or cafés whenever you need connection, community, or a change of scenery.
• Charitable Giving: Employees are encouraged to donate up to $50/month to any verified nonprofit they wish to support on Givebutter.
• Professional Development: We offer learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Love What You Do: We are a mission-driven company serving the charitable sector. Feel good about the work you're doing and the company you work for.