Brand Design Manager, Visual Systems

Tustin, CA (Unknown)

$100K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual identity system for brand cohesion across campaigns and channels, turning strategy into practical design principles and scalable templates while guiding in-house production and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Own visual system development and brand guidelines to ensure consistent look across digital and print touchpoints.
  • Lead creative direction and review to uphold hierarchy, clarity, and brand polish.
  • Shape templates, file systems, and intake workflows with Marketing, Product, and Creative teams to speed delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Visual Identity & Brand Cohesion: Refine and maintain Zymo Research’s visual identity across campaigns, social media, email, print, presentations, trade shows, product collateral, photography, and digital touchpoints.
  • Translate brand strategy into clear visual principles, including typography, layout, color usage, imagery, hierarchy, iconography, and overall design philosophy.
  • Brand Guidelines & Templates: Help build the next version of Zymo Research’s brand guide, moving beyond logos and colors into a practical visual system.
  • Create and refine templates for recurring needs such as decks, social media, email headers, campaign assets, brochures, product sheets, event materials, and internal communications.
  • Creative Quality & Designer Direction: Guide and review in-house design work to ensure strong visual hierarchy, clarity, polish, and brand consistency.
  • Provide clear creative feedback and serve as a key reviewer for major brand and marketing assets.
  • Creative Organization: Help organize existing templates and assets, identify outdated or inconsistent materials, and support cleaner file systems, approved examples, and version control.
  • Partner with project and operations leads to improve creative intake, review, and delivery workflows.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Marketing, Product Marketing, Scientific Communications, Social Media, Commercial, Creative, and Web/UX teams to ensure Zymo Research’s visual identity is expressed consistently across channels.
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Zymo Research

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Since its inception in 1994, Zymo Research has been proudly serving the scientific community by providing innovative, reliable, and high quality research tools at affordable prices. Our vision..."The Beauty of Science is to Make Things Simple" is now truer than ever. Whether it's epigenetics, DNA, RNA, E. coli, or yeast based research, our philosophy remains the same: To provide the highest quality products in the industry while ensuring they are both simple to use and reliable in their performance.Zymo Research is historically recognized for its innovation of high quality nucleic acid purification technologies. Under the branding DNA Purification Made SimpleTM and RNA Purification Made SimpleTM, our technologies are pushing the limits of what is possible with nucleic acid isolation. As The Epigenetics CompanyTM, Zymo Research has also received much attention for its rapidly expanding portfolio of epigenetics products and services. It is our objective to develop and provide the most comprehensive set of tools for DNA, RNA, and epigenetic research and analysis available today. Thousands of peer-reviewed scientific publications from researchers around the world feature our technologies. Through innovation, our scientists have made streamlined DNA methylation detection possible, pioneered the micro-elution column for DNA and RNA purification, developed the simplest and the most sophisticated methods for high-quality plasmid DNA purification, and patented the first RNA purification directly from Trizol without phase separation among many other leading technologies in the industry.At Zymo Research, we are committed to quality and guarantee that all of our products and service will meet and exceed your expectations. We pledge to be honest and responsible for everything we do with you. We will treat you as we would like to be treated. Together, we will build a brighter future.

Founded in 1994
Irvine, California, USA
198 employees (11 in marketing)
52% recommend to a friend
54% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
121.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$11.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.2%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
7.9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~198

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (4% of company)

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