Senior Brand Designer

At GitLab, Senior Brand Designers are responsible for ensuring strategic, seamless experiences. They work closely with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to elevate our global brand and optimize the customer journey end-to-end. In this role, you will report to the Director of Brand. 

What you'll do in this role 

• Define and create a visual language as an extension of the brand (illustrations, icons, colors, typography, animations, etc.).
• Educate others on design thinking, brand experience, and design-driven storytelling.
• Collaborate with Content Marketing, and others, to establish a clear and concise brand voice, tone, and personality.
• Collaborate with UX Design to create and maintain a cohesive and consistent brand experience between Marketing and Product.
• Continually iterate on concepts in an effort to make the brand relevant and relatable to our audience(s).
• Strong ability to prioritize work and resources across various projects.
• Develop visual concepts for digital campaigns, webpages, print, and events.
• Enable others, non-designers, to create on-brand assets.
• Actively contribute to GitLab's Brand Standards.
• Generate clear ideas and concepts in tandem with peers and stakeholders.
• Lead cross-discipline collaboration as it relates to brand experience (Sales, Content, Product, etc.).
• Understand marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience.
• Cooperate with the rest of the creative team across different types of media.
• Facilitate iterative and inclusive design process end-to-end within deadlines.
• Effectively present ideas to clients/team members.
• Stay on top of brand, design, media and conversion best practices.
• Be an advocate for design; educating and enabling others to create on-brand experiences.

We're looking for

• 7 years agency experience (marketing, design or advertising), or on a design team at a technology company.
• Proven experience designing strategic omni-channel experiences at an agency or technology company. SaaS experience preferred.
• Must be fluent in brand, marketing and design principles and best practices.
• Hands on experience with logo design, typography, color, web layout design, print production, photography, and more.
• Proficient use of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma.
• Demonstrable design thinking and execution skills with a strong portfolio.
• The ability to incorporate feedback and take/give direction well.
• A team player with strong communication and presentation skills.
• BA/BS in design, communications, marketing, HCI, or related experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to independently conceptualize and think critically about design.
• Effective communication for conceptual ideas and design rationale.
• Engagement in constructive design critiques.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize accordingly, and iterate quickly.
• Strong communication skills without a fear of over communication.
• A shared interest our values, and working in accordance with those values.
• Ability to use GitLab. 

Bonuses

• Project or product management experience.
• Product marketing experience.
• Knowledge of Git and/or GitLab.
• Technology marketing experience.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

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