Responsibilities

• 🗺️ Own the roadmap – Lead all Brand Design program management, including roadmap development, project scoping, timelines, and resourcing.
• 🎛️ Run the machine – Manage a high volume of simultaneous projects across surfaces: web, digital, social, brand systems, event design, and sales collateral.
• 🧱 Scale the system – Partner closely with our Art Director to further scale and evolve Assured's brand design systems, and optimize processes to streamline how work moves through the team. You'll manage the team's operational rhythm, advocate for the AD’s strategic priorities, enforce adherence to AD creative feedback & process directions, and drive alignment so they can focus on creative excellence.
• 🤝 Connect the org – Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, and Client Engagement to ensure smooth execution, alignment, and integration of design systems across every customer-facing surface.
• 🚨 De-risk delivery – Connect silos, socialize changes, anticipate risks, and provide actionable solutions for escalation to Brand and Marketing leadership.
• 🔍 Guard the craft – Uphold and advocate for design quality with cross-functional teams and vendors;
• 🤖 Bring AI to the studio – Identify opportunities to expand AI tooling for the Brand Design team, driving automation and efficiency gains, and self-serve brand resources for the broader company.

Requirements

• 🎨 6+ years as a creative producer, design producer, project manager or design ops manager – at a top creative agency or on an in-house brand, marketing, or product design team.
• 🖌️ A background in brand, front end development, or marketing design – you've been close enough to the craft to have real opinions on it, and you can run a critique alongside designers.
• 🧭 Strong strategic acumen for developing complex program roadmaps and cross-functional processes in a fast-paced startup environment.
• 🤖 AI-driven mentality: Experience implementing AI tooling and automation into a creative workflow, and driving adoption across a team.
• 📏 Highly detail oriented and excel at simplifying complexity – you offer options and tradeoffs, crisply articulate decisions, and iterate quickly.
• 🗣️ Experience acting as a force multiplier for creative leadership, you know how to distill complexity, manage up, and handle high-level communication on behalf of leadership.
• ⚖️ Can balance speed and craft – you know when to ship and when to hold.

Benefits

• 🤑 Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary and equity packages for all employees
• 🏥 Healthcare Plan: Platinum medical, dental, and vision
• 🛡️ Free life insurance: Including long-term disability & short-term disability
• 🏄 Unlimited PTO: Uncapped vacation days & paid holidays
• 👶 Family Leave: Maternity & paternity
• 📈 401(k) Contribution: Assured contributes 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute
• 🏠 WFH Benefits: Lunch on us 2x/week, monthly phone stipend & other home office perks
• 👪 Health FSAs & HSAs: Pre-tax accounts for out-of-pocket medical expenses
• 🤝 Team events & Offsites: We're remote, but we regularly get together