Brand & Marketing Designer

CLAIR; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage

Parental leave

401k with company match

Job summary

Clair is hiring its first Brand & Marketing Designer in New York. You’ll own the visual work across product, marketing, and sales, from illustrations to campaigns.

You’ll collaborate with Design, Product, and Partnerships, applying strong typography, layout, and color to deliver polished, shipped designs. You’ll work in a hybrid setup in New York City, with compensation at $161,000 annually, plus equity, benefits, and perks.

Qualifications

• Strong original illustration and a portfolio showing exceptional illustration work.
• Ability to move between product, marketing, and sales/growth with consistent quality across all three.
• Experience across brand identity, campaigns, digital and email marketing, social, and presentations.
• Proficient in Figma, comfortable in Adobe Creative Suite.

Responsibilities

• Own illustrations for product and marketing, expanding the illustration library and guiding AI tuning to match Clair's style.
• Develop in‑product visuals: empty states, onboarding, success and error moments, and milestones.
• Own motion and micro‑interactions in key flows like advances and goal tracking.
• Design sales, partner, and marketing assets: decks, emails in Braze, website pages in Framer, social and campaign assets.

Skills

Illustration design

Brand design

Motion & animation

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Tools

Framer

Braze

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

About Clair

If you can send your friends money in seconds, why does it still take your employer two weeks to send your paycheck?

At Clair, we are on a mission to create financial freedom for America's workers by giving them a digital banking platform that allows them to get paid as soon as they clock out of work. But we're not just another digital bank or on-demand pay provider. We meet Americans at their place of work by embedding our products within the scheduling, workforce management, and payroll apps they already use every day.

Learn more about us at getclair.com/about

The role

Clair is an embedded fintech company. We get workers access to the wages they've already earned, before payday, through the payroll and scheduling tools they already use, like Gusto, QuickBooks, and 7shifts.

We're hiring our first Brand & Marketing Designer. You'll own the visual work behind how Clair shows up and how we sell: illustration, marketing emails, our website, sales and partner decks, and motion in the product. One week you're building an illustration set for onboarding, the next you're designing a partner pitch or a campaign in Braze. You'll report to the Director of Design and work across product, marketing, and sales.

The ideal candidate has a strong visual point of view, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to move comfortably between big-picture creative thinking and hands-on execution.

What you'll own

• Illustrations

  • Build the illustration Clair uses in the product and across marketing, and set the bar for what it looks like.

  • Grow our illustration library so designers aren't starting from scratch every time, including helping tune our AI tools to match our style.

• In-product visual work

  • Build on Clair's in-product illustration set: empty states, onboarding, success and error moments, credit-builder milestones, etc.

  • Own motion and micro-interactions on the flows that carry weight: requesting an advance, success screens, hitting a credit goal, etc.

  • Help refine Clair's in-product motion, and add more of it in Figma Motion so it stays consistent with how the design team works.

• Sales, partner, and marketing design

  • Design sales, MBR, and fundraising decks that position the product and business well, working closely with Design, Product, and Partnerships.

  • Design recurring marketing emails in Braze.

  • Design and update pages on our website, built in Framer.

  • Design assets for social and paid marketing campaigns.

  • Own events and marketing collateral (banners, signage, printed materials), delivering production-ready files for digital and print and coordinating with outside vendors or agencies when a project calls for it.

Must-haves

• Strong original illustration: You have a point of view and a style of your own, and a portfolio that shows exceptional illustration work.

• Range across the business: You're comfortable moving between product, marketing, and sales/growth, holding quality across all three.

Plus at least one of

• Website design: We build on Framer.

• Motion and animation: A strong understanding of Figma Motion is ideal, since that's what the design team uses and it keeps product handoffs clean.

What we're looking for

• 2-4 years of experience in visual, brand, or marketing design.

• A strong portfolio across a range of formats: product, marketing, and presentation work.

• Experience across brand identity, campaigns, digital and email marketing, social, and presentations.

• A strong grasp of typography, layout, composition, and color.

• You can take a loose brief and carry it through to a polished, shipped result.

• A high bar for craft and detail.

• You can run several projects at once in a fast-moving environment.

• You explain your design decisions clearly and work well with non-design partners.

• You are proficient in Figma, and comfortable in Adobe Creative Suite.

• Excited to work in a startup where priorities shift quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience working in fintech, financial services, technology, or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience working on consumer-facing brands or products.

• Experience working in a high-growth startup environment.

Who you are

You have strong creative instincts, but you're not precious about the work. You know that great design starts with understanding the problem you're trying to solve.

You can take a relatively open-ended brief and turn it into something thoughtful, polished, and impactful. You're comfortable asking questions, bringing your own ideas to the table, and pushing for a stronger creative solution when you see an opportunity.

You're excited by variety. One day you might be developing a campaign concept; the next, designing a partnership deck, creating social assets, or helping bring an event to life.

Most importantly, you care deeply about the details. You notice when something feels slightly off, and you take pride in producing work that is thoughtful, intentional, and beautifully executed.

Why Clair

This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on how a growing fintech brand shows up in the world.

You'll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of creative projects, contribute to the evolution of Clair's visual identity, and see your work directly influence how customers, partners, and the broader market experience our brand.

If you're a strong visual designer who is excited to build, experiment, and grow alongside a company entering its next phase, we'd love to hear from you.

Additional Details

Location: This is a hybrid position based in New York City; you will be expected to come into the office at least three days a week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays), with additional days on occasion for client meetings.

Compensation: The annual base salary for this role is $161,000. The base pay for this role is determined using many factors, such as education, skills, and experience, and is reflective of Clair Series' stage and size. Base pay is only one part of Clair’s competitive total compensation package, which includes equity, benefits, and additional perks. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Apart from getting to work with our incredible team, here are some of the benefits you can expect when you join Clair:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family

• Fully-paid parental leave

• Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA

• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles

• Work from home setup allowance

• Access to your earnings every day on Clair

• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance

Equal Opportunity Employer Information

Clair is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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