Responsibilities

• Lead the design of brand identities for clients across a range of industries, including logo systems, typography, color, iconography, illustration style, and visual language.
• Develop comprehensive brand guidelines and asset libraries that give clients everything they need to show up consistently after the engagement ends.
• Apply brand systems across a wide range of deliverables including pitch decks, social templates, print collateral, packaging, and digital assets.
• Collaborate with web and product designers to ensure brand identity translates effectively into digital environments.
• Present brand concepts to clients with confidence, articulating the thinking behind creative decisions and navigating feedback with clarity.
• Contribute to new business pitches and proposals by helping visualize creative direction and agency capabilities.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in brand design, with meaningful experience in an agency or studio environment. A portfolio showing full identity systems across multiple clients and industries is required.
• Creative Vision: A distinctive point of view and a sophisticated eye for typography, color, and composition. You push beyond safe and expected.
• Systems Thinking: You don’t just design logos, you build flexible, extensible brand systems that hold up in the real world.
• Multitasker: Comfortable handling multiple client engagements at different phases simultaneously.
• Communication: Confident and articulate when presenting work, skilled at building client trust and walking a room through a creative rationale.
• Organization & Detail: Meticulous about file organization, handoff documentation, and making sure every delivered asset is production-ready.
• Extreme Ownership Mentality: You take ownership of the full brand experience, not just the deliverables in your immediate scope.

Preferred

• AI Forward: Using AI tools to explore directions faster and push ideation further during the creative process.
• Sense of Humor: Warm, collaborative, and fun to work with even when projects get complicated.
• "That Dog": Always studying great brand work, constantly raising your own bar, and ready to go the extra mile when a client or project deserves it.

Benefits

• Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the United States. Our culture is built to support remote-first collaboration and flexibility. If you are local to OC and want to join us in office, there are always open desks.
• Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited time off and the autonomy to structure your workday in a way that suits you best.
• Growth-Oriented: We’re committed to helping our team members grow personally and professionally through ongoing learning opportunities and meaningful challenges.
• Creative Environment: Be part of a team that celebrates design, innovation, and a playful approach to solving problems.