Senior Brand Designer & Creative Leader

Gen; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Gen is seeking a highly skilled, senior-level brand designer to join our Brand & Creative Studio as an Associate Creative Director. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with exceptional taste, deep craft, and the ability to move fluidly across brand systems, digital experiences, campaigns, social, content, and visual storytelling.

This person is not coming in to manage a team. They are coming in to make the work better.

Qualifications

• A portfolio that shows exceptional design craft and work for global brands.
• Experience across brand identity, digital design, and campaign systems.
• Strong art direction and storytelling abilities.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Responsibilities

• Create elevated design across branding, campaigns, digital, social, presentations, content systems, and brand experiences.
• Translate brand strategy into distinctive visual ideas, scalable systems, and polished creative executions.
• Work as a senior hands-on designer across high-priority initiatives, moving between concept development, art direction, layout, typography, image-making, and final production.
• Partner with creative directors, writers, strategists, marketers, and product teams to develop work that is both brand-building and business-relevant.
• Help raise the quality bar across the studio through strong craft, thoughtful critique, and sharp creative judgment.
• Use AI tools as part of the creative process - from exploration and ideation to image generation, editing, prototyping, production support, and workflow acceleration.
• Bring a high level of visual taste to photography, illustration, motion, UI-inspired design, and campaign systems.
• Stay close to emerging tools, design trends, platform behaviors, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

Skills

Brand identity

Digital design

Campaign systems

Social

Integrated creative

Strong art direction

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

After Effects

Job description

Gen is seeking a highly skilled, senior-level brand designer to join our Brand & Creative Studio as an Associate Creative Director. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with exceptional taste, deep craft, and the ability to move fluidly across brand systems, digital experiences, campaigns, social, content, and visual storytelling.

This person is not coming in to manage a team. They are coming in to make the work better.