Brand Systems Architect — Principal Designer

RAMP; New York; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office setup

Health stipend

Travel budget

Coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a Principal Brand Designer to define the brand design system and drive brand initiatives across Ramp. You’ll translate strategy into design, lead flagship projects, and push the team to deliver high-quality brand experiences that scale with the business.

You will partner with product, marketing, and engineering to ensure a coherent brand presence across channels, products, and experiences, mentoring others and shaping a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• A deep portfolio of brand identities and campaigns.
• Excellent design fundamentals and the ability to carry an idea through to finished work.
• Experience leading complex projects independently and making good decisions when the brief is still taking shape.
• The ability to negotiate, compromise, or understand trade-offs with executives and XFN partners.
• The ability to connect creative choices to the audience, the product, and the business.
• A record of helping other designers improve and working well with people across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Set creative direction. Turn business goals and audience insights into clear ideas for the brand.
• Lead company-defining projects. Take campaigns, launches, and other brand experiences from an open question to finished work.
• Set the bar for quality and taste. You are the go-to expert for typography, imagery, layout, and brand design.
• Build the brand system. Evolve our visual identity over time with coherency and adaptable system.
• Connect brand and product. Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering for a coherent experience.
• Raise the quality of the team’s work. Mentor others and foster collaboration and trust.
• Tell stories to drive alignment. Help partners understand thinking and select scope and timing.

Skills

Brand design

Leadership

Typography

Brand systems

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

AI tooling

Job description

Ramp is seeking a Principal Brand Designer to define the brand design system and drive brand initiatives across Ramp. You’ll translate strategy into design, lead flagship projects, and push the team to deliver high-quality brand experiences that scale with the business.

You will partner with product, marketing, and engineering to ensure a coherent brand presence across channels, products, and experiences, mentoring others and shaping a collaborative culture.