Brand Designer, Creative Studio

Apply; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking a Brand Designer to lead high-impact brand initiatives within the Creative Studio in New York City. Work involves setting direction from strategy through execution, partnering with stakeholders and executives, and elevating design craft.

You’ll define approaches, resolve ambiguity, and influence project outcomes. The role requires a strong portfolio across channels, systems thinking, typography mastery, and collaboration with illustrators, animators, and filmmakers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in an agency or in-house environment.
• Strong portfolio that’s culturally resonant and visually diverse.
• Deep commitment to systems thinking, typographic excellence, and attention to small details.
• Experience collaborating with illustrators, animators, copywriters, filmmakers, photographers, and beyond.
• Excellent partnership skills with cross-functional stakeholders and executives.
• Curiosity about how AI can expand creative expression and drive production.

Responsibilities

• Concept, art direct and design high-visibility moments from brand campaigns, product launches, and events.
• Contribute to brand systems and tooling to improve velocity and consistency.
• Mentor and raise the bar for other designers through feedback and patterns.

Skills

Brand design

Storytelling

Systems thinking

Typography

Collaboration

AI workflows

Mentoring

Job description

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

About the Role

This role is based in New York City. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.

This role sits on Notion’s Creative Studio, a small team of designers, illustrators, and filmmakers. Our work tells the story of our offering in a way that reflects the products themselves: smart, refined, and with a dash of wit on the side.

As a Brand Designer, you’ll work on high-impact brand initiatives and campaigns: setting direction from early strategy through final execution, partnering closely with stakeholders and executives, and raising the bar for craft and systems. You’ll be asked to define approaches, resolve ambiguity, and influence both project outcomes and how the team works.

What You'll Achieve

• Concept, art direct and design high-visibility moments from brand campaigns, product launches, and events, developing approaches that can scale across a broad range of surfaces, moments, and channels.


• Contribute to our brand systems and develop standards and tooling that improve velocity and consistency for teammates near and far.


• Mentor and raise the bar for other designers and creative partners through feedback, critique, and patterns that make great work repeatable.

Skills You'll Need to Bring

• 10+ years in an agency or in-house environment, with demonstrated leadership on ambiguous, complex, high-impact work.


• A strong portfolio of work that’s culturally resonant and visually diverse, and that showcases your ability to tell stories across many channels.


• A deep commitment to systems thinking, typographic excellence, and sensitivity to small details.


• Experience working with a broad range of makers. You’ve teamed up with illustrators, animators, copywriters, filmmakers, photographers, and beyond to bring your ideas to life.


• Excellent partnership skills. You can work hand-in-hand with cross-functional stakeholders, drive alignment, and make pragmatic tradeoffs.


• A tinkerer’s mindset. You're curious about how your tools are evolving and have a strong perspective on how AI can expand creative expression and drive production. You’ll actively experiment with new AI workflows to concept, prototype, and push our design systems further.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000 per year.

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.