Senior Brand Designer: Elevate Brand Systems & AI Tools

Plaid Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

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Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Brand Designer with exceptional craft to bring Plaid's brand to life across paid and organic social, email, web, events, sales enablement, and more. This craft-first role emphasizes building creative systems and using Figma, AI, and automation to streamline workflows without sacrificing quality.

You will build flexible templates and design systems in Figma, extend the brand across formats, and collaborate with Design and Marketing to make workflows intuitive.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of brand, marketing, or creative design experience with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft across channels.
• Strong command of typography, composition, hierarchy, image-making, and brand systems.
• Deep Figma expertise, including components, templates, and systems that scale.
• Hands-on fluency with AI, automation, or emerging creative tools and judgment on when they improve the work.
• Systems-minded problem solver with strong communication, collaboration, and ownership skills; design degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create exceptional brand and marketing design across channels with a high bar for typography and detail.
• Translate and extend Plaid's brand across formats, maintaining a cohesive visual system.
• Build templates and creative systems in Figma to scale repeatable work.
• Identify opportunities to improve the creative process using AI and automation.
• Collaborate with Design and Marketing to document and roll out workflows for others to use.

Skills

Brand design

Typography

Visual storytelling

Design systems

Cross-channel design

Education

Design degree preferred

Tools

Figma

AI tools

Automation tools

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Brand Designer with exceptional craft to bring Plaid's brand to life across paid and organic social, email, web, events, sales enablement, and more. This craft-first role emphasizes building creative systems and using Figma, AI, and automation to streamline workflows without sacrificing quality.

You will build flexible templates and design systems in Figma, extend the brand across formats, and collaborate with Design and Marketing to make workflows intuitive.