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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Senior Brand Design Manager position?

The suggested salary for this position is CA$140,000-CA$200,000*

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No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Senior Brand Design Manager job at Relay

Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.

Relay is entering an exciting new chapter of growth. We’re looking for a Senior Brand Design Manager to help us scale our brand and Marketing engine. This is a unique opportunity to own and evolve Relay’s visual brand storytelling to accelerate our growth with U.S. small businesses and this role will report directly to our Director of Brand.

Joining Relay, means an opportunity to make a huge impact building solutions with the potential to reach 29 million small businesses across the U.S. If you thrive on growth and solving real customer problems, we want to hear from you! Please note that we are a hybrid environment and choose to collaborate in the office twice a week.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Own and evolve Relay’s visual brand across while ensuring all visual assets align to our brand with a high caliber of quality
Create and lead the design strategy of all assets across marketing with a focus on scaling Relay’s brand
Measure the impact of Relay’s brand designs in the market and understand how the assets (landing pages, emails, etc.) deliver business growth
Work as an integrated leader within the marketing team, collaborating closely with Content, Community, Growth and Events team members to ensure campaigns and deliverables get to market
Build, grow and lead a team of full time and freelance designers to unlock scale for brand design
Develop a process playbook for and manage the design pipeline of multiple, concurrent projects to meet deadlines and drive elevated, on-brand results for the marketing team
Manage the design function to deliver a wide variety of visual assets, from campaign creative direction, web pages, blog images, video direction, ads to print collateral, sales enablement PDFs, collateral and booth design for trade shows, and beyond
Proactively communicate work progress, risks, blockers and performance of Brand Design function to other functional leaders
Lead tactical and strategic collaborations with Sales, People, and Product teams by providing design vision, feedback and visual asset support as needed
Deeply learn our customer and market to evolve Relay’s visual storytelling to deliver on customer needs and business goals

Who You Are:

You have 7+ years of design experience across a wide variety of formats
You have a deep skill set in visual storytelling, creative conceptualization, and design execution with an inspiring portfolio that backs up your ability to drive brand design impact in market, manage teams and deliver results
You are a natural team leader who has managed direct reports and/or freelancers across multiple projects to meet deadlines and deliver high quality work
You are impact-oriented, you care deeply about impacting the growth of Relay’s business through our marketing funnel as much as you love designing beautiful things
You consider yourself a resident expert in one of the major design platform (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign)
You take pride in your ability to research the customers you’re designing for and understand their pain points, and operations to bring that into your design strategy
You are a builder, problem-solver and cross-functional partner who is energized by making quality work happen in a fast-paced, scrappy environment
You are collaborative and seek out and appreciate feedback on design work, and thrive in team based environments
You are incredibly organized and have the proven experience to manage teams through multiple concurrent deadlines at once

Bonus Points:

You have skills in editorial design, illustration or front-end web development
You have a demonstrated ability to lead teams that contribute to growth outcomes through design work
You have experience working at a startup or high-growth environment

Our Commitment To You:

Competitive salary and meaningful equity: every team member gets a piece of the pie.
Comprehensive health benefits: we offer full health benefits + an HSA/WSA starting from day 1 so you get the coverage you need.
Considerable vacation/end-of-year holiday shutdown: we take time off to reset and recharge so we come back better for our customers.
Hybrid working environment: we love collaborating and connecting in office two times a week and offer bi-weekly catered lunches and a snack/beverage program for the days we’re in office.
Personal and professional growth: support from leaders who care about your growth and success through regular feedback and coaching. Our goal is to make Relay a step-change career opportunity.
Top-tier equipment: we’ll make sure you have everything you need to produce your best work.
Team-first culture: we’re passionate about working collaboratively, bonding through team events, and most importantly having fun.

The Interview Process:

Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with a member of the People Team
Stage 2: A 45-minute Google Meets video call with the Director of Brand
Stage 3: A take-home design-focused case study + writing sample, followed by a 1-hour presentation of your solution to our Marketing team
Stage 4: A 30-min Google Meets video call with a member of Relay’s Leadership team

Research shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. If you don't have all the listed qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway, and together we'll figure out if this is the best role for you!

What’s Important to Us:

At Relay, we believe that diversity is key to building high-performing teams, and creating an inclusive work environment is our priority. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

We will work with applicants to provide accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please email your People Team contact, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Senior Brand Design Manager