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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Lead Designer, Brand position?

The suggested salary for this position is $245,100-$299,500*

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No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Lead Designer, Brand job at Aspiration

Aspiration is in the business of fighting the climate crisis. We help people and businesses build sustainable impact into what they do every day by making it easy, automated, and powerful -- whether it is in the ways people spend and save their money or the ways businesses engage their customers and employees. The estimated cumulative climate impact of the Aspiration community thus far is the equivalent of taking every car in the state of Wyoming off the road for a year. Aspiration is a certified B Corporation and, in fact, has been named to the “Best for the World” list of the top five percent of highest scored certified B Corporations four years in a row. Aspiration has raised over $550M in funding to date and is growing quickly.

Aspiration Values

Action: We take initiative. We are doers, not bystanders.

Boldness: We don’t tinker, we transform.

Customer-Centered: Our customers are at the core of our business. Delivering for them is our North Star.

Diligence & Dedication: We do what we say we’re going to do, when we say we’re going to do it.

Entrepreneurial: Act like an entrepreneur not an employee, generate results for the company and customers everyday.

Aspiration is hiring a Lead Designer, Brand for our growing Brand Creative department. As Lead Designer, you'll work closely with the SVPs of Brand Creative to build a visual identity in which our stories and business come to life. You’ll lead the development, maintenance, and evolution of our global visual presence. You’ll conceptualize and build solutions to various design challenges ranging from brand systems to campaigns large and small. You’ll also demonstrate an ability to collaborate with the Brand Creative team, cross-functional partners, and business stakeholders.

Your tactful approach, stunning work, detailed methodology, and high degree of craft will help strengthen the team.

Established knowledge in graphic design, visual identity, brand systems, typography, storytelling, and an ability to oversee photography and illustration is needed.

What You'll Do

Set a clear and inspiring vision for the visual voice of Aspiration. With influence and purview over all aspects of our visual identity – including campaigns, marketing initiatives, branding, collateral, and communication materials (internal and external).
You will lead a growing team of designers and makers to produce industry-leading work.
You set a high creative bar and want to raise the standards of everyone around you.
You can flex how you work to accommodate a range of budgets and timeliness – and at times, lean in to set examples through your craft.
You provide leadership, wisdom, and professional development to your team.
You are here to have fun and care deeply about fighting climate change You will use your knowledge and understanding of design to help Aspiration, and the planet, thrive.

What You'll Bring

You understand the principles of how to build an indelible brand.
You can draw a clear line between strategy and minor design decisions with experience building brands or campaigns whose individual design elements live up to a singular and cohesive strategic vision. You are a storyteller at heart, able to articulate to non-creatives why design decisions matter. You aspire to do work that penetrates beyond marketing, fintech, or environmental sciences and pushes into the culture at large – bringing insights and references from across cultures to help shape the work.
You understand the project lifecycle from brief writing to guideline building and will be responsible for all aspects of the work, from concept to delivery.
Mastery of the grid, typographic principles, semiotics, and color theory. Mastery of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, and Google Slides.
Experience with 3D tools like C4D, Blender, or SplineExperience with print tools like InDesignExperience designing for a wide range of media. Experience developing visual guidelines.
Has a portfolio that demonstrates a history of deploying these skills.
Our Ideal candidate has experience as a design lead or senior designer at a branding agency, advertising agency, design studio, or in-house design team.
You are collaborative, reliable, and passionate about fighting climate change.

What You'll Get

Work for a mission-driven company to transform the lives of millions by building a better, values-oriented financial firm.
Opportunity to be part of and to contribute to ESG, as a steward of social and environmental change.
Participation opportunities in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion employee activities and events
Robust benefit offerings, including medical, dental, vision and 401k.
Parental Leave expansion (12 weeks of paid leave over the course of a year)
Pet Insurance and other voluntary benefit plan offerings
Unlimited vacation time and 80 hours of sick time annually
12 Paid Holidays
Work from home setup and equipment reimbursement
Semi - annual performance reviews
Employee Referral Bonus Program

Aspiration is proud to be an ESG company. We are an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity at Aspiration is not just compliance-driven. Diversity is our compass to drive equitable practices; to celebrate individuality; and to foster the uniqueness within each of us that makes our products, services, and culture better than most. Yes, we are proud to be a DEI company and we encourage everyone, inside and outside of Aspiration, to show up as you are and as you want to be, every day.

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