Job Description:
The role of a Lead Designer is to drive creative excellence across brand and marketing experiences. This involves leading a multidisciplinary in-house design studio, ensuring visual consistency, brand integrity, and compelling storytelling across web, social, digital content, motion, and events.
This role requires an entrepreneurial spirit, high sense of ownership, and the desire to flex across multiple projects at once without missing a beat. The candidate will work in partnership with cross-functional teams — including product marketing, strategy, content, and events — to bring bold ideas to life, scale design operations, and mentor others to deliver high-impact, audience-centered work that elevates Circle's global brand presence.
As a key member of the team, you will have the opportunity to evolve and maintain Circle's brand system, ensuring consistency across icons, illustrations, motion, diagrams, and digital UI components. You will also champion cohesive, scalable design systems and brand guidelines that empower cross-functional teams to deliver with speed and quality.
* Lead creative execution across marketing touchpoints, including product GTM assets, social content, website, and events.
* Ensure our brand standards are met across all touch points with a strong sense of art direction and taste.
* Evolve and maintain Circle's brand system, ensuring consistency across icons, illustrations, motion, diagrams, and digital UI components.
* Champion cohesive, scalable design systems and brand guidelines that empower cross-functional teams to deliver with speed and quality.
* Guide and mentor a small design team, managing priorities, workflows, and design reviews to ensure high-caliber output.
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Required Skills and Qualifications:
We're looking for someone with 7+ years of experience in brand and marketing design within agency or in-house environments. A depth of experience in branding, visual identity design, web design, graphic design, and art direction is essential. The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio demonstrating aesthetic design skills, creative range, strategic thinking, and executional excellence across digital, web, and print.
A solid grasp of design systems and scalable workflows is required, as well as proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant tools. Deep understanding of UX/UI best practices, responsive design, and accessibility standards is also necessary.
Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential for leading reviews and synthesizing feedback. Proven experience managing concurrent projects and partnering with cross-functional teams is also required.
* 7+ years of experience in brand and marketing design within agency or in-house environments.
* Depth of experience in branding, visual identity design, web design, graphic design, and art direction.
* Strong portfolio demonstrating aesthetic design skills, creative range, strategic thinking, and executional excellence across digital, web, and print.
* Solid grasp of design systems and scalable workflows.
* Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant tools.
* Deep understanding of UX/UI best practices, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills.
* Proven experience managing concurrent projects and partnering with cross-functional teams.
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Benefits:
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
As an equal opportunity employer, we offer a competitive compensation package, including a base pay range of $130,000 - $170,000. We also participate in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to us for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
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