MongoDB

Senior Manager, Brand Design

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in design or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years in design, ideally in a senior capacity
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating event design, campaigns, and visual storytelling
  • Proficient in Adobe and Figma for design execution
  • Ability to communicate design rationale effectively to varied audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead and execute design for brand experiences and campaigns
  • Concept and develop scalable visual systems for high-impact initiatives
  • Manage end-to-end design execution and act as key liaison between teams
  • Provide documentation and guidance for consistent brand application
  • Create resources to empower teams to use brand correctly across the organization
  • Maintain and evolve brand systems including typography and color palettes
  • Collaborate with various design teams to ensure brand consistency

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility within the U.S. or at office locations
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact brand projects and events
  • Access to a collaborative team environment
  • Possibility for career growth into senior-level roles
  • Regularly updated brand libraries and resources for personal and team development
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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