Principal Brand Strategist

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$152K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Remitly's brand evolution from strategy to practical tools, leading AI-enabled brand work and ensuring consistent messaging across global markets.

  • Translate brand strategy into messaging, naming, and guidelines
  • Collaborate with growth, product, and regional teams to ensure alignment and rollout

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support Brand Evolution & Implementation
  • Serve as a key strategic partner in Remitly's brand evolution — evaluating agency work against strategy, pressure-testing ideas, and ensuring the new brand is grounded in both business reality and customer insight
  • Help translate brand evolution outputs into practical, usable tools — messaging frameworks, naming systems, voice and tone guidelines — that the full creative and marketing team can act on immediately
  • Partner with the Director, Brand Strategy & Identity to ensure brand evolution work lands consistently across every touchpoint, channel, and market
  • Support implementation planning — identifying where the new brand needs to show up first, what needs to change, and how to sequence rollout for maximum clarity and impact
  • Develop Briefs, Positioning, Messaging & Naming Frameworks
  • Develop Tier 1 strategic briefs for Remitly's most important brand and culturally relevant moments such as World Cup, product launches, brand campaigns, and seasonal initiatives
  • Translate brand positioning and customer insight into clear, inspiring creative strategy that gives the creative team a direction strong foundation to build from
  • Build and maintain messaging frameworks that feed all three work streams — brand-defining, campaign, and high-volume performance work
  • Lead naming projects for new products and features, ensuring every name is strategically grounded, on-brand, and contributes to a simple, coherent brand architecture

Requirements

  • 5–10 years of experience in brand strategy, content strategy, or integrated marketing — agency or in-house
  • Strong messaging framework development and brief writing— this is core to the role
  • Experience working on global or multicultural brands, with genuine sensitivity to cultural nuance and localization
  • Familiarity with AI tools for brand and copy work (custom GPTs, NotebookLM, or similar) — or a strong appetite to develop this fluency quickly
  • How you think...
  • You write with clarity and purpose — briefs that inspire, frameworks that teams actually use
  • You connect customer insight to strategic direction without losing the human at the center of the story
  • You think across channels — understanding how brand strategy translates into creative, performance, and product contexts
  • You are detail-oriented without losing sight of the big picture
  • How you show up...

Preferred

  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or mission-driven consumer brands a plus

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
  • Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
  • Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuing education
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Remitly

3.8 Glassdoor

Remitly is an international payments company that leverages digital channels, including mobile phones, to send money internationally. Remitly's digital products are fundamentally faster, less expensive, and far more convenient for customers to send money across borders.

Founded in 2011
Seattle, Washington, USA
3.3K employees (184 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$152K/yr – $175K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$526.7M
Last Raise
$550M
Post IPO Debt, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $550M
  • Jan 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $6.7M
  • May 2021
    Corporate Round

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$598.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.4%
Direct
55.2%
Referral
3.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.3K

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Principal Brand Strategist

Remitly · Seattle, WA · Hybrid