3 weeks ago
Brand Design Lead, Brand Studio
Motive
San Francisco, CA (On-site)Full time$163K/yr – $236K/yr
Brand Design Lead, Brand Studio
San Francisco, CA (On-site)
$163K/yr – $236K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time
Posted 3 weeks ago
Job Summary
Own brand design leadership across Motive Brand Studio, guiding craft, systems, and global collaboration while shaping campaigns, design systems, and scalable processes.
- Lead brand design, vision, and governance across regions and channels
- Mentor a distributed design team and elevate design standards
- Partner with product, marketing ops, and content to integrate creative workflows
Job Description
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 .
Motive
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. We serve nearly 100,000 customers, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, energy, trucking and logistics, and the public sector, among others.Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.
Salaries
Posted range
$163K/yr – $236K/yr
Taken straight from the job posting.
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
113 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7
People
Marketing Leadership
Funding
Total Funding
$717.3M
Last Raise
$150M
Series Unknown, 8 months ago
Funding History
- Jul 2025Series Unknown • $150M
- Oct 2023Secondary Market
- May 2022Series F • $150M
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
1.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$141.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.3%
Direct
69.9%
Referral
4.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.4%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~5.6K