Brand Designer, Creative X

Meta

$108K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in brand design, marketing design, or advertising, particularly with large-scale campaigns.
  • Proven ability to define and scale visual identity systems for consumer-facing products or global brands.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing high-quality craft in digital and social marketing, especially in multi-channel campaigns.
  • Experience leading end-to-end creative work and aligning stakeholders across functions.
  • Excellent communication skills for influencing creative strategy and design decisions through effective storytelling and rationale.
  • Proficient in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, capable of producing high-fidelity designs and presentations.
  • Portfolio demonstrating measurable outcomes related to brand and business impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve brand foundations for Instagram with a strong strategic approach.
  • Create scalable brand systems and toolkits to support multi-channel campaigns.
  • Develop original design concepts that balance creative exploration with system rigor.
  • Oversee projects from concept to delivery, ensuring quality and adherence to brand standards.
  • Present work effectively, using storytelling to clarify strategy and design decisions while influencing stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with diverse teams, including creatives, product managers, and agencies, to cater to a global audience.
  • Simplify complex narratives into compelling brand messages that resonate culturally.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a collaborative and creative team culture.
  • Engagement with a global audience in a prominent consumer brand.
  • Chance to influence the visual identity and design systems of a leading platform.
  • Access to professional development and learning opportunities in emerging technologies.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THIS ROLE We are looking for a brand designer to join the team with a background in developing holistic and timeless brand design systems. This person must have a demonstrated experience in brand architecture, craft, and design thinking, with a proven track record of working on integrated efforts. You must be comfortable working across many media touchpoints and creating rigorous design systems. Youre a conceptual thinker who can bring ideas to life in new and inspiring ways-and when you decide to make something, you carry your vision from concept to launch with independence and ownership. In this role, youll work specifically and closely with the CX Design team to build out brand foundations and scalable toolkits that enable high-quality campaigns and activations across channels. Youll translate strategy into clear design systems, templates, and guidelines that help teams move fast while keeping the family of apps brand consistent, expressive, and culturally relevant at global scale.

Responsibilities

Build and evolve timeless brand foundations for Instagram, grounded in strategic brand thinking, strong craft, and clear design principles
 Create scalable brand systems, behaviors, and toolkits (templates, guidelines, components, asset frameworks) that enable campaigns and activations across channels
 Develop original, original design concepts across a range of marketing touchpoints - balancing expressive exploration with system rigor
 Be deeply hands-on from start to finish: sketch, explore, prototype, design, refine, and deliver the final work with a high bar for detail and quality
 Own projects end-to-end-driving creative development, managing feedback cycles, and ensuring work ships on time and on brand
 Present work clearly and persuasively, using strong storytelling to explain strategy, trade-offs, and craft decisions; influence and align stakeholders
 Partner cross-functionally with creatives, researchers, product managers, product marketers, and engineers-and collaborate with agencies/production as needed-to serve a global audience
 Break down complex narratives into simple, compelling brand expressions that communicate intent, value, and cultural relevance
 Contribute to a positive, curious team culture by bringing energy, experimentation, and a sense of fun to the creative process while continuously raising the bar through feedback and criticism

Minimum Qualifications
 8+ years of experience in brand design, marketing design, or advertising, with demonstrated ownership of large-scale, multi-channel campaigns and/or integrated brand systems
 Proven experience defining, evolving, and scaling visual identity systems for consumer-facing products or global brands-translating strategy into usable guidelines and toolkits
 Strong portfolio showing high craft across digital and social marketing, with experience extending design systems into campaigns, activations, and multi-format expressions
 Experience leading creative workstreams end-to-end and partnering cross-functionally to align stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and deliver work that ships
 Effective communication skills, with a track record of influencing creative strategy and design decisions through presentations, narratives, and clear design rationale
 Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with the ability to produce explorations, high-fidelity designs, and presentation-ready assets
 Portfolio demonstrating a range of work with clear outcomes (brand impact, business impact, or measurable performance, where applicable)

Preferred Qualifications
 Demonstrated ability to create global-ready frameworks that scale across markets, localization needs, and diverse cultural contexts without losing brand integrity
 Proven ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous problem spaces-bringing structure, options, and momentum when the path isnt defined
 Motion design skills (or strong motion graphics partnership experience) to extend brand systems into animation, transitions, and dynamic storytelling. Experience designing for technology platforms that span multiple surfaces and constraints (e.g., consumer hardware, wearables, or hardware and software ecosystems)
 Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
 Experience with immersive or emerging formats (e.g., AR/VR, spatial/3D, interactive experiences) as part of a brand or marketing creative
 Experience collaborating with adjacent disciplines (motion, photography, production, creative technologists) and comfort incorporating new tools/AI workflows to deliver integrated, multi-format systems
 Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
 Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
 Experience working across both product and marketing contexts, able to translate product strategy into clear brand systems and expressive campaign works

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