Responsibilities

• Brand & Content Design: Own end-to-end design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing content (social, web, print, presentations), ensuring high-fidelity output that elevates the Stellar brand.
• Creative Strategy & Execution: Develop narrative-driven visual concepts and contribute to the evolution of our design system, extending new executions while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Operational Autonomy: Independently manage the full production lifecycle—from scoping and revisions to delivery—while prioritizing concurrent projects with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Collaboration & Agency Management: Partner with internal stakeholders, Creative leadership, and external agencies, providing constructive feedback and sharing design best practices to ensure consistent brand excellence.
• Team Leadership & Innovation: Lead creative development on high-visibility projects and actively improve team processes, including the introduction of scalable components and emerging AI tools to enhance creative output.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in brand design, with a strong mix of agency and in-house expertise.
• Robust portfolio demonstrating judgment, coherent visual systems, and clear brand thinking across digital (ads, web, social), motion, company merch (SWAG) and/or physical collateral.
• Design mastery in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with a forward-looking fluency in emerging AI design tools.
• Brand System Expertise: Proven ability to build upon and extend brand design systems, with a track record of defining and executing high-level creative direction.
• Production Independence: Experience managing end-to-end projects, including liaising with external agencies and freelance partners to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Operational Agility: Proven capacity to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Collaborative Mindset: Strong interpersonal skills for partnering effectively across marketing, strategy, content, and communications teams.
• Communication & Advocacy: Ability to present work to senior stakeholders, clearly articulate rationale, and advocate for strong creative decisions.

Preferred

• AI Fluency: Experience integrating generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Envato) into creative and production workflows.
• Domain Expertise: Familiarity with the Stellar ecosystem, open-source software, decentralized finance (DeFi), or the broader fintech landscape.
• Mission Alignment: Passion for building accessible, equitable financial tools; prior experience with mission-driven or non-profit organizations.
• System Stewardship: Experience contributing to or evolving design systems within growing, fast-paced creative teams.

Benefits

• USA Benefits/Perks:
• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
• Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
• Life & ADD (up to $50K)
• Short & Long term disability
• 401K with 4% match
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution