Brand Design Lead, Brand Studio

Responsibilities

• Lead brand design within Motive’s Brand Studio, setting a high bar for craft, consistency, and brand expression.
• Lead visual creative direction for campaigns, activations, and brand initiatives in partnership with Brand Studio and Marketing leadership.
• Provide hands-on design leadership for key moments, helping sell in concepts and creative direction to stakeholders and executives.
• Ensure Motive’s brand system is consistently and effectively applied across regions, channels, and formats.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of designers across the US, Mexico and Pakistan.
• Establish clear design standards, feedback rituals, and development paths to elevate team performance and morale.
• Foster strong collaboration across time zones, ensuring clarity, alignment, and creative cohesion.
• Act as a trusted creative partner to regional and global marketing teams.
• Evolve Brand Studio processes to support global scale, speed, and quality.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems, toolkits, and documentation that empower teams to move faster without sacrificing brand integrity.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, or creative roles, with 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating world-class identity design, brand systems, campaign design, and integrated marketing work.
• Demonstrated ability to remain hands-on in the work while providing creative direction, mentorship, and leadership to other designers.
• Proven experience leading and developing designers across regions or time zones.
• Figma-first mindset, with deep expertise using Figma for collaborative design, system building, and team workflows.
• Experience building or evolving design systems and scalable creative processes.
• Strong conceptual thinking paired with exceptional attention to craft and detail.
• Ability to sell creative ideas and influence stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with comfort presenting to executive audiences.

Benefits

• Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
• Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits .