Brand Design Lead - Global Studio & Systems

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 171,000 - 236,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits
Dental & vision coverage
Paid time off
Disability insurance
Life insurance
401k contribution

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Brand Design Lead to drive design excellence across our Brand Studio. You will lead and mentor a distributed team across North America and Pakistan, elevating craft, systems, and processes for global scale.

As a hands-on creative leader, you’ll develop concepts for major campaigns and ensure brand integrity across channels, regions, and formats, partnering with marketing and product teams to accelerate impact.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, or creative roles.
  • 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers.
  • Strong portfolio showing identity design, brand systems, and integrated marketing work.
  • Hands-on design leadership while guiding others and influencing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand design within Motive Brand Studio, setting high craft and brand expression.
  • Provide visual direction for campaigns, activations, and brand initiatives with marketing leadership.
  • Offer hands-on design leadership for key moments and present concepts to executives.
  • Ensure consistent application of Motive's brand system across regions and formats.
  • Build scalable design systems, toolkits, and documentation.

Skills

Brand design leadership
Graphic design
Mentoring designers
Figma
Design systems
Campaign design
Executive communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Motive is seeking a Brand Design Lead to drive design excellence across our Brand Studio. You will lead and mentor a distributed team across North America and Pakistan, elevating craft, systems, and processes for global scale.

As a hands-on creative leader, you’ll develop concepts for major campaigns and ensure brand integrity across channels, regions, and formats, partnering with marketing and product teams to accelerate impact.

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