Brand Design Lead
About the Role
As a Brand Design Lead at Descript, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our brand identity. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will define and execute strategies across prospect- and customer-facing surfaces. You will manage agency and vendor relationships that expand our reach and our creative thinking. Your work will help us deepen affinity with our current customer community, and reach new audiences.
What You’ll Do
- Continuously up-level our brand’s visual language: Enact best practices for expressing a distinctive brand sensibility and bringing our product to life
- Blend strategy and craft: Tackle unbounded design problems; develop standards and guiding principles that make design decision-making fast and consistent
- Make a whole lot of stuff: Shape Descript's narrative, support growth efforts, and enhance product launches, all by by producing designs and assets for web, social media, email, events, and more
- Enable scale: Serve as a design partner for external agencies who scale our growth and sales programs
- Build relationships: Within the Marketing team and beyond, collaborate thoughtfully, anticipate and address sources of misalignment proactively; mentor other creative marketers
What You Bring
- Experience: 10+ years as a Brand Designer, ideally in a start up and/or SaaS setting. Proficiency in marketing technology platforms, operations, and tools, including website CMS and social media formats.
- A hunger for going deep: Desire to learn technical products—and their users—inside and out.
- Organizational and communication skills: Proven methods for staying organized, collaborating across functions, and communicating with stakeholders at all levels of a company.
- Thoroughness and pragmatism: A keen eye for detail and craftsmanship without compromising on deadlines; knowing when to find a workable solution, versus the perfect one.
- Multitasking ability: Comfort working on multiple projects simultaneously, with the ability to drive and prioritize as needed.
- Ownership and initiative: Willingness to take ownership and make progress in the face of ambiguity and dynamism.
The base salary range for this role is $140,000-$180,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above.
About Descript
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult—we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.