Senior Brand Designer

Vega

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in brand design at a high-quality agency or in-house team.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a brand identity from strategy to execution.
  • Strong typography skills that focus on functionality over decoration.
  • Sharp visual judgment demonstrating restraint and intentionality in design.
  • Fluent in Figma, Adobe Suite, and similar design tools.
  • Experience in writing or contributing to brand guidelines and design systems.
  • Comfortable presenting brand concepts to leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Vega's brand identity system including typography, color, and layout.
  • Partner with external brand agency for a refresh, then lead the in-house branding efforts.
  • Translate brand narrative into visual representation across various platforms and materials.
  • Review and enhance brand output across decks, social media, events, and web.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive brand guidelines for team and stakeholder use.
  • Shape brand presentation in product design collaboration with the product team.
  • Mentor design team members, enhancing overall visual quality of work.
  • Collaborate with illustration partners to evolve the visual language of illustrations.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and evolve a brand at a crucial growth phase.
  • Collaboration with a diverse team including external brand partners.
  • Mentorship opportunities fostering professional growth within the design team.
  • Engagement in a variety of platforms and media for brand expression.
Full Job Description
The Role

You'll be the strategic owner of Vega's brand identity - partnering with the Creative Design Lead, our external brand partner, and the wider design team to evolve the visual language across every surface: web, events, product, social, decks, and swag.

This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, sees a brand as a living thing, and can translate strategy into beautifully crafted visual work. If you've been waiting to take ownership of a brand at the moment it's evolving with real depth and maturity, this is the role.

What You'll Do

  • Own and evolve Vega's brand identity system: typography, color, layout, and character.
  • Partner with our external brand agency on the current refresh, then own the system in-house going forward.
  • Translate the brand narrative into visual language across every touchpoint.
  • Review and elevate brand-driven output across the team - decks, social, events, web.
  • Build and maintain brand guidelines the rest of the team and our stakeholders can rely on.
  • Help shape how the brand shows up in the product, alongside our product design team.
  • Mentor across the design team and raise the visual bar on everyone's work.
  • Work with our illustration partner to evolve the illustration system and pixel art language.

Requirements

What You Will Bring

  • 5+ years in brand design at a high-quality agency or in-house team.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a brand identity from strategy to system to execution.
  • Strong typography skills - type doing real work, not decoration.
  • Sharp visual judgment: restraint, intentionality, craft.
  • Fluent in Figma, Adobe Suite, and adjacent design tools.
  • Experience writing or contributing to brand guidelines and design systems.
  • Comfortable presenting brand thinking and decisions to leadership.

Nice to Have

  • Cybersecurity, developer tools, or B2B SaaS background.
  • Editorial, magazine, or print design experience.
  • Interest in pixel art, voxel art, illustration, or character design.
  • Familiarity with how brand systems translate into motion.


Salary range: $120,000-$150,000 depending on experience and location.

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