Senior Visual Designer – Brand & Product Systems (Remote)

Design Better Podcast; San Mateo (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401k with employer match

Generous vacation policy

Parental leave

Company tech package

Job summary

Step, a remote-first fintech company, is seeking an experienced Visual Designer to define and evolve its visual identity across product, marketing, and physical experiences. You will own typography, color systems, and craft, delivering cohesive work for campaigns, cards, merchandise, and brand moments.

You will collaborate with Product Design, Marketing, Engineering, and Leadership to ensure a cohesive customer experience, build scalable design systems, and push creative boundaries with

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing visual identities, marketing campaigns, and digital experiences for consumer brands.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft across branding, marketing, digital products, and storytelling.
• Deep understanding of typography, layout, color, composition, illustration, photography, and motion.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Step's visual identity across every customer touchpoint, ensuring a cohesive experience across product, marketing, brand, and physical experiences.
• Design compelling creative for product launches, lifecycle marketing, social media posts, advertising, web, email, and other customer-facing experiences including mobile-first email templates and assets.
• Produce high-impact static and motion assets for paid channels (social, search, display, CTV), iterating based on performance data.
• Partner closely with Product Design to ensure our visual language is consistently expressed throughout the app and product ecosystem.
• Define, document, and maintain our brand guidelines, ensuring they evolve alongside the company while remaining easy for teams to understand and use.
• Build scalable visual systems that enable designers and marketers to create consistent work efficiently without sacrificing creativity.
• Raise the quality bar across the organization through thoughtful critique, art direction, and mentorship.
• Explore new visual directions, illustrations, motion, photography, and emerging creative trends that push the Step brand forward.
• Help define how AI can accelerate creative exploration, production, and content creation while maintaining exceptional design quality.

Skills

Visual design

Brand identity

Typography

Motion design

Design systems

Portfolio

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

After Effects

Job description

Step, a remote-first fintech company, is seeking an experienced Visual Designer to define and evolve its visual identity across product, marketing, and physical experiences. You will own typography, color systems, and craft, delivering cohesive work for campaigns, cards, merchandise, and brand moments.

You will collaborate with Product Design, Marketing, Engineering, and Leadership to ensure a cohesive customer experience, build scalable design systems, and push creative boundaries with