MongoDB

Senior Manager, Brand Design

MongoDB$104K — $204K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BFA or MA/MS degree in design, art and design, or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years of design experience, ideally in a senior role for the past 1-2 years
  • Strong portfolio focused on event design, branding campaigns, design systems, and visual storytelling
  • Advanced knowledge of Adobe and Figma systems
  • Exceptional communication skills with both creative and non-creative stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute design work for brand experiences and campaigns across various high-impact initiatives
  • Develop and translate brand strategy into scalable visual systems across multiple media
  • Manage end-to-end design execution, facilitating communication among teams, agencies, and contractors
  • Document design systems and provide guidance to maintain brand consistency in fast-paced environments
  • Create and maintain brand enablement resources for internal teams and external partners
  • Evolve and steward core brand elements including typography, iconography, and color frameworks
  • Collaboration with design teams to ensure consistency and develop specialized assets for projects

Benefits

  • Remote work option available within the US
  • Collaborative team environment with cross-functional interactions
  • Emphasis on personal and professional growth in a senior design capacity
  • Opportunity to work on high-profile events and initiatives
  • Access to a diverse range of design projects across multiple touchpoints
Full Job Description
Senior-level individual contributor on the Brand Creative team responsible for the execution, evolution, and stewardship of the visual brand across high-impact experiences, initiatives, and design systems. This role requires balancing hands-on design execution with cross-functional project ownership, while building and providing brand enablement to both internal teams and external partners to ensure the brand is applied consistently and effectively.

Please submit your portfolio in addition to your resume when applying. This role can either be based remotely in the US or in one of our office locations.
Key Responsibilities
  • Help lead and execute design work across brand experiences, campaigns, and events (e.g. .local, Mindshare Brand Campaigns, AWS re:Invent, SKO, etc)
  • Deeply involved in concepting, ideation, and system development for high-impact initiatives, translating brand strategy into scalable visual systems across print, digital, motion, and environmental applications
  • Own design execution end-to-end, from early concept through delivery, serving as a key communicator across internal teams, agencies, and contractors.
  • Provide system documentation, visual storytelling guidance/direction, and feedback to ensure alignment and consistent execution of brand systems across deliverables, timelines, and stakeholder reviews, particularly within fast-paced event and campaign environments
  • Build and maintain enablement resources that allow teams across the organization to apply the brand confidently and correctly. This includes templates, documentation, and guidance for programs beyond marketing, ensuring brand systems are usable, clear, and well-communicated
  • Serve as a keeper of the brand, maintaining and evolving core brand systems including typography, iconography, logo usage, color, and layout frameworks. Ensure brand libraries and shared resources such as the Figma brand library, presentation templates, icons, and brand book remain accurate and up to date
  • Collaborate closely with adjacent design teams including events, social, web and product to ensure consistency across all brand touchpoints. Partner with specialty disciplines such as animation and illustration to develop storyboards, style frames, and other specialized assets as needed
Skills & Expertise
  • Strong fluency across print, digital, motion, and event design systems
  • Expert event environmental and campaign design, including large-scale brand moments
  • Advanced knowledge of Adobe & Figma systems, libraries, and scalable brand documentation
  • Clear communicator of design rationale, systems, and constraints to both creative and non-creative stakeholders
  • Ability to operate as both a hands-on designer and a strategic partner within a collaborative team environment
What we need to see
  • BFA or MA/MS degree in design, art and design or a related field, or equivalent work experience demonstrating commitment to excellence in visual design and illustration
  • 6+ years of design experience. We are looking for a high performer who is ready to transition into a senior role or has been in a senior role for a maximum of 1 to 2 years
  • A portfolio highly focused work showcasing event design, campaigns, layout, design systems and visual storytelling
How to stand out
  • Showcase you have an advance knowledge and understanding of relevant design theory
  • Demonstrate consistent lateral thinking when undertaking large projects, identifying gaps and potential areas of conflicts and ties back to team goals
  • Be able to discuss strong cross-functional relationships and the importance of having these relationships
  • Showcase that research and empathy is part of your illustration process


MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$104,000-$204,000 USD

About MongoDB

MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database that allows developers to build applications with ease and flexibility. MongoDB is used by many of the world's largest organizations to power their most critical applications. MongoDB is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the globe.
Learn more about MongoDB
Size
3,544 employees
Market Cap
$12.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.9 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+50.1%
Revenue
$590.3 million
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