Lead Brand Designer

Monzo; Greater London; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 learning budget each year for学习

Macbooks provided

Work-from-home setup support

Incentive awards tied to performance

Job summary

Monzo is seeking an experienced Lead Brand Designer to shape its visual identity and drive high-quality design solutions across branding, typography and motion. You will lead a small design team, mentor peers, and collaborate with product, marketing and external agencies to maintain brand consistency.

Your role combines hands-on design with strategic brand stewardship, ensuring campaigns, web designs, and product interfaces reflect Monzo's identity while pushing creative standards.

Qualifications

• Strong branding and identity portfolio across branding, art direction and typography.
• Experience leading design projects from ideation to delivery.
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced tech startups or creative agencies on global brands.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong typography skills and experience in both web and print design.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end branding projects with cross-functional teams (marketing, product design, engineers).
• Manage a small design team and mentor others using internal leveling frameworks.
• Guard brand guidelines and guide external agency partners on design and concepts.
• Develop, evolve and maintain brand identities across all touchpoints.
• Hands-on design contribution in Figma; refine typography and animate assets where needed.
• Collaborate with product, marketing and engineers to deliver cohesive design solutions.
• Demonstrate strong concept art direction and motion for in-app experiences with product teams.

Skills

Creative Leadership

People management

Mentoring

Brand Guardian

Brand Design

Hands-On Design

Typography

Collaboration and Communication

Art direction

Motion design

AI tooling curiosity

Stakeholder management

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

After Effects

3D programs

Job description

We're a team of 115+ designers, researchers, and brand experts led by Chief Design Officer Vuokko Aro. We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We're seeking an experienced Lead Brand Designer with a strong portfolio in branding, art direction and typography.

In this role, as part of a digital-first team, you'll shape Monzo's visual identity, deliver high-quality design solutions aligned with strategic goals, and drive innovative ideas as a conceptual thinker. Your designs will combine creativity and vision, ensuring they're both compelling and rooted in strong concepts.

As part of our dynamic internal creative studio, you'll collaborate with designers and writers, exchanging feedback and raising design standards. Working closely with the Creative Director, you'll ensure consistency and evolve the Monzo brand by partnering with product designers, marketing teams, and external agencies.

Key projects include refining brand guidelines, developing motion storyboards, managing production and print, creating campaign assets, collaborating on web designs and product designs, and elevating internal design projects.

• Creative Leadership. Leading and overseeing end-to-end projects, from ideation to execution, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product design, and engineers.
• People management. You will need management skills to manage a small team of designers, by guiding and supporting them with our internal leveling frameworks.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to designers, fostering a collaborative and productive team environment. Run design critiques and help others navigate projects with cohesive and thoughtful feedback.
• Brand Guardian: Guide external agency partners on all things design and creative concepts.
• Brand Design. Develop, evolve and maintain brand identities, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints.
• Hands-On Design: Figma FIRST. Roll up your sleeves and contribute directly to the design work, whether it's crafting a standout campaign, refining our typography, or animating assets.
• Typography. Utilize expert knowledge of typography to create visually appealing and readable designs.
• Collaboration and Communication. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and project management, to deliver cohesive design solutions.
• Creatively concept art direction and motion for in-app experiences with product teams.
• You have a proven track record in design roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating branding, art direction, product design, advertising campaigns and typography.
• You have experience in managing designers and leading design projects.
• You have strong typography skills.
• You demonstrate proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Figma is a must. Motion skills, 3D programs, Ai toolings, are a plus.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate design concepts to both internal teams and senior management.
• You have strong stakeholder management skills.
• You're a creative problem solver who can manage multiple projects simultaneously and balance competing priorities.
• You're curious about AI tools and how they can enhance the creative process, ideally with some hands-on experience using them in your design work.
• You have experience in fast-paced tech startups or creative agencies working on global brands.
• You have experience in additional areas like web design, print design, storyboarding, art direction, film, and illustration.
• You're obsessed with strategically designing within a brand, and have strong skills with evolving within a brand guideline.
• You have strong motion ideation and storyboarding skills.

What's in it for you

£75,000 - £95,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.