Senior Brand Designer (6mo Contract)

We’re looking for a hard-working Senior Brand Designer to join our Brand Studio for 6 months to cover for a designer on leave. The designer will primarily focus on designing for events, integrated marketing campaigns, and our social media channels.

The right person thrives on figuring out what makes a brand connect with its audiences and is skilled at all aspects of visual design—digital and print. 

Seriously creative and strategic,  the Senior Brand Designer loves working cross-functionally to bring exceptional ideas to life across multiple channels. 

They have extensive experience shaping a breadth of brands, including ones with two-sided marketplaces.

Sitting with the marketing team and reporting to the Senior Design Manager for Brand Studio, the Senior Brand Designer  will help shape how our brand shows up for our restaurants and our diners—developing extraordinary creative that help us meaningfully connect with our audiences. 

The work they will do will reflect their passion for dining and restaurant culture. 

ABOUT OUR TEAM

Brand Studio sits within the marketing organization and collaborates closely with all the teams to bring to life OpenTable's defining products and experiences.

ABOUT YOU

• You have 6+ years of experience as a brand designer. You are insights-curious and are a customer advocate. And you truly understand how the right visual system can tighten the relationship between a brand and its audience.

• You have an exceptional portfolio featuring examples of dining or hospitality-related work. We’ll want to see examples of visual identity systems and real world applications, both digital and physical. 

• You have experience in designing for events & brand activations.

• You have a portfolio featuring examples of exemplary social campaign work.

• You are collaborative and work well with design, marketing, and product  teams to scope, shape, and deliver projects that propel brands (and business!) forward. 

• You’re a great teammate and love working with designers to brainstorm and ideate creative concepts that deliver on our strategic plans. 

• You’re a true storyteller and are able to thoughtfully articulate the rationale behind your design choices 

• You’re passionate about demonstrating the value of brand and design and  you can eloquently speak to its business impact. 

• You’re obsessed with dining and food culture.

• You’re comfortable using Figma.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Partner with our Events Team: Be a key partner to our Marketing Events team. Brainstorm creative, engaging activations and bring them to life–everything from invites, menus, and swag to large format signage and graphics. Event examples include booths at food festivals, custom dinner series, and brand partnerships.

• Social Design Expert: Working closely with Consumer Marketing,  you’ll be the point person for day-to-day social requests and expand upon our system of social templates

• Creative lead on Integrated Campaigns: Partner with designers in driving creative direction and asset production for global, strategic campaigns such as holidays and key partnerships projects.

• Steward of the Brand: Ideate and complete design projects that build on our brand guidelines and deliver outstanding results 

• Systems Thinker: Codify new solutions into clear and easy-to-follow guidelines that will augment our standards. Partner closely with your collaborators to transform opportunities into projects that make a difference. 

SOUND GOOD?

Please initially submit a resume and some samples of your work, either as a PDF or a link to something we can look at online.

ABOUT OPENTABLE

First established in 1998, OpenTable has defined a market by creating products that empower restaurants to manage and grow their business along with ways for people to easily find and book places to eat. We seat millions of diners daily in tens of thousands of restaurants around the world, and we're just getting started.

ABOUT DIVERSITY

We strongly believe that our design team should be as diverse as the restaurant industry and the people we design for. We would therefore particularly welcome applications from people who are currently underrepresented in tech. OpenTable is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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