Lead Brand Designer

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$180K/yr – $220K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve Parafin\'s visual identity and marketing assets end-to-end, driving brand consistency across campaigns, website, and product visuals while collaborating with product and engineering.

  • Own end-to-end visual identity and brand system.
  • Lead or contribute to campaigns and product-visual narrative.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - Own and evolve Parafin's visual identity, maintaining the brand system and building out templates and components. Maintain and scale a brand asset library and style guide so the whole company can stay on-brand.
  • - Concept and execute marketing campaigns across web, social, paid ads, email, blog, and video, from initial idea to final delivery.
  • - Design, build, and maintain website assets and pages, partnering with marketing and engineering to keep our web presence polished, modern, and up to date.
  • - Art-direct and produce video and motion content for social, ads, and web: hands-on or through vendors.
  • - Collaborate with the product design team to accurately represent and market our product, highlighting key features, maintaining visual consistency, and ensuring product visuals reflect the real experience we deliver.
  • - Create event and office materials such as posters, signage, swag, and internal communications.
  • - Proactively identify opportunities to improve how Parafin shows up in the market, finding gaps in the brand system and proposing how to fill them before being asked.

Requirements

  • - 6+ years of visual/brand design experience
  • - A versatile brand and graphic designer with a strong portfolio spanning digital and print. Comfortable working across mediums: web, social, print, environmental, and motion.
  • - Experience owning a visual identity end-to-end, from brand strategy and ideation to execution and rollout.
  • - Experience leading or contributing to a rebrand or brand refresh.
  • - Strong proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and AI tools in your design workflow.
  • - Excellent typography, layout, and composition skills with a sharp eye for detail.
  • - Familiarity with web design principles and asset handoff for digital production.
  • - Autonomous enough to take a brief and run with it, and strong enough as a communicator to present and defend creative decisions to stakeholders.

Preferred

  • - Experience working on brand design in fintech, B2B SaaS, or financial services.
  • - Motion design or animation skills (After Effects, Lottie, etc.).
  • - Photography or art direction experience.

Benefits

  • - Equity grant
  • - Medical, dental & vision insurance
  • - Unlimited PTO
  • - Work from home flexibility on Mondays and Fridays
  • - Commuter benefits
  • - Free lunches
  • - Paid parental leave
  • - 401(k)
  • - Employee assistance program
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Parafin

4.1 Glassdoor

Parafin’s infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, payment platforms, and more. With a single integration, platforms can launch a full suite of financial products for their small business sellers, including capital, spend management, and savings tools. These services provide access to financing and help businesses thrive by leveraging real-time performance data to offer customized financial solutions.

Founded in 2020
San Francisco, California, USA
116 employees (13 in marketing)
81% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
35.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.8%
Direct
60.9%
Referral
11.4%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~118

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (7% of company)
Median Tenure
0.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$562M
Last Raise
$100M
Series C, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2024
    Series C • $100M
  • Aug 2024
    Debt Financing • $93M
  • Apr 2024
    Debt Financing • $125M

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