In-House Principal Brand Designer

Fort Collins, CO (On-site)

$58K/yr – $65K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end brand design process from strategy to production, shaping brand systems, campaigns, and assets while collaborating with strategy and content teams to ensure messaging and business goals are met.

  • Define and evolve brand identities and visual systems across print, digital, and motion
  • Translate concepts into polished, production-ready assets for multiple channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • • Develop distinctive brand identities grounded in approved strategy and positioning.
  • • Translate strategy into cohesive visual systems using typography, color, composition, imagery, graphic language, and illustration.
  • • Create logo systems, brand marks, iconography, patterns, supporting assets, and practical brand standards.
  • • Extend visual identities across print, digital, environmental, social, editorial, and campaign applications.
  • • Evaluate existing brands and identify opportunities to modernize, clarify, or strengthen their presentation.
  • • Create original vector and raster illustrations, campaign artwork, icons, motifs, patterns, and graphic elements.
  • • Adapt illustration style to each client, audience, and strategy rather than applying one personal aesthetic to every account.
  • • Translate sketches and concepts into polished, production-ready artwork for print, digital, environmental, and motion applications.
  • • Concept and execute integrated campaigns across advertising, social, email, websites, presentations, sales materials, and collateral.
  • • Build campaign systems that remain consistent while providing enough variation to sustain attention.

Requirements

  • • Demonstrated professional experience in brand design, graphic design, campaign development, or a closely related discipline.
  • • A sophisticated portfolio showing complete brand systems, not only isolated logos or mockups.
  • • Strong original illustration capability demonstrated through professional or portfolio work.
  • • Advanced typography, layout, composition, color, and visual-hierarchy skills.
  • • Experience designing for print and digital environments.
  • • Strong working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
  • • Ability to move from concept through final production without losing quality or strategic alignment.
  • • Experience preparing accurate production files for print and digital use.
  • • Ability to work across multiple industries and visual styles.
  • • Strong attention to detail and the judgment to identify problems independently.

Preferred

  • • Agency experience.
  • • Editorial, publication, packaging, environmental, or website design experience.
  • • Experience developing iconography, patterns, mascots, or illustration systems.
  • • Experience preparing design assets for animation or motion.
  • • Experience mentoring developing designers.
  • • Familiarity with Figma, Adobe After Effects, or complementary platforms.
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The Creative Agency

The Creative Agency specializes in transforming brands through innovative digital marketing. We offer social media marketing, SEO, content creation, PPC, email marketing, and web design. Partner with us to elevate your brand and achieve measurable results. Let's grow together!

Founded in 2020
Jal El Dib, Mount Lebanon Governorate, LBN
8 employees (8 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
328
Traffic Source Mix
Direct
30.2%
Referral
69.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (63% of company)
Median Tenure
6.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5