Brand Designer, Brand Studio

Albany, NY (Remote)

$127K/yr – $269K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand design and evolving visual systems for Figma across campaigns and moments.

  • Must-have: 5+ years of visual craft across image-making, typography, color, illustration, and storytelling.
  • Standout: Ability to balance experimentation with cohesive brand systems and cultural relevance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create visually distinctive and culturally relevant brand work across campaigns, launches, events, and storytelling moments
  • Explore and develop new visual expressions for the Figma brand through image-making, typography, illustration, composition, motion, and emerging creative tools
  • Generate original concepts and creative directions that push beyond traditional tech branding while still feeling unmistakably Figma
  • Contribute to scalable visual systems, toolkits, and creative approaches that can evolve across a wide range of brand moments and surfaces
  • Bring a strong sense of craft, intentionality, and authorship to everything from early explorations to final execution
  • Collaborate closely with Brand Studio partners, product designers, marketers, and creative leadership to shape cohesive and impactful brand narratives
  • Actively experiment with new references, techniques, workflows, and technologies, sharing discoveries and creative approaches that help raise the bar across the team
  • Help evolve how the Figma brand shows up in a rapidly changing creative landscape, balancing consistency with experimentation and surprise

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience and a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual craft across image-making, composition, typography, color, illustration, and visual storytelling
  • Craft work that feels culturally aware, emotionally resonant, and authored rather than overly systematized or generic
  • Demonstrate strong visual instincts and attention to detail, with the ability to move fluidly between conceptual exploration and polished execution
  • Bring curiosity and a broad range of references from art, design, fashion, publishing, music, internet culture, photography, motion, and emerging creative communities
  • Apply deep hands-on expertise with the Figma platform and contemporary creative workflows
  • Actively explore emerging creative tools, AI-powered workflows, and new visual approaches, forming clear opinions about how and when to use them

Benefits

  • Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
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Sequoia Capital Global Equities

Sequoia Capital Global Equities ("SCGE") is a public/private crossover firm that was founded in 2009 as an affiliate of Sequoia Capital. SCGE extends Sequoia Capital's technology investing into the public markets and applies the firm's thematic investment approach across the internet, software, semiconductor and fintech sectors. We are a long-term partner to transformational and enduring technology companies through their journey to IPO and beyond.

Founded in 2009
Menlo Park, California, USA
38 employees

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