Senior Design Lead: Co-Branded Card Programs

Imprint; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

High-quality hardware

Flexible paid time off

Fully covered healthcare including dep

One Medical access

Paid parental leave

Industry-leading technology access

Job summary

Imprint is seeking a Senior Marketing Design Manager in New York to lead a small design team responsible for co-branded card programs from brief to production. You will balance hands-on design with coaching, ensuring brand consistency across our partners and internal stakeholders.

You will translate briefs into compelling visuals, defend design rationale, and guide your team through critique and production-ready mechanicals tailored for credit card manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Brand or print design experience with end-to-end ownership of projects.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers, including informal leadership.
• Proven ability to present and defend creative work to clients or stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of print production and crafting mechanicals for printing.
• Experience operating at a program level, linking assets to a broader brand system.
• Clear, confident communicator translating feedback into design decisions for clients and team.
• Comfort working with external partners in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team of designers, setting creative bar and providing regular feedback.
• Own end-to-end creative execution for co-branded card programs, personally and via the team.
• Lead client-facing creative presentations, defend design decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Translate briefs into card designs, program toolkits, and visual systems reflecting brand identity.
• Build production-ready mechanicals for card manufacturing, ensuring print spec compliance.
• Drive program-level creative thinking across card design, digital wallet, and app contexts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across brand, product, and external partners.
• Maintain quality and consistency across all deliverables throughout the program lifecycle.
• Participate in production milestones including press checks and printer coordination.

Skills

Brand design

Print design

Design leadership

Client presentations

Design critique

Communication

Tools

Brand systems

Job description

Imprint is seeking a Senior Marketing Design Manager in New York to lead a small design team responsible for co-branded card programs from brief to production. You will balance hands-on design with coaching, ensuring brand consistency across our partners and internal stakeholders.

You will translate briefs into compelling visuals, defend design rationale, and guide your team through critique and production-ready mechanicals tailored for credit card manufacturing.