Staff Brand Designer

Why join us

• Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.
• By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
• Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
• Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
• Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
• We're committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream.
• We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Design at Brex

• Design at Brex creates the experiences that make complex systems feel effortless through thoughtful, scalable design.
• Whether crafting interfaces, shaping product strategy, or harnessing AI to empower our users, we obsess over quality and clarity.
• This is a team where creativity meets high craft, and where designers grow by building for ambitious customers.

What you'll do

• Brex is looking for a Staff brand designer to join the Design team, a cross-disciplinary group of creatives including product designers, brand designers, content design, operations, and marketing strategists.
• Our team's mission is to build a category-defining brand and meaningfully move key business metrics by delivering world-class creative.
• Your role will be to drive the evolution of Brex's brand identity system, pushing our visual language forward while maintaining cohesion across all touch points.
• You'll be instrumental in defining how our brand shows up in the world, from establishing new design patterns and brand expressions to reimagining our visual identity for the next phase of growth.
• This is a strategic and hands-on role that will require you to work closely with Marketing leaders, Web and Product teams, and creative partners to ensure our brand identity is distinctive, scalable, and reflects our ambition.
• You are a systems thinker who can envision the big picture while obsessing over the craft details that bring a brand to life.

Where you'll work

• This role will be based in our San Francisco, Seattle, or New York office.
• We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
• We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Brex's brand identity system, including visual language, typography, color, illustration, and brand patterns
• Define and maintain brand standards that balance consistency with creative flexibility across teams and channels
• Translate company strategy and brand vision into clear, compelling visual direction in partnership with leadership
• Design and deliver new brand expressions that advance the identity while preserving recognition and equity
• Lead high-impact brand work beyond the core system, including special campaigns, sub-brands, and select product or service launches
• Art direct and contribute to brand campaigns, collaborating with external partners and internal teams to ensure exceptional craft
• Provide guidance and feedback across the organization to raise the quality and effectiveness of brand execution

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in brand design or art direction, with a strong focus on identity systems and brand evolution
• A portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, system design, and high-quality execution across identities and campaigns
• Deep expertise in typography, color, composition, and building scalable visual systems
• Strong ability to articulate design decisions and build alignment with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders
• Experience working across multiple workstreams in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with comfort prototyping and iterating quickly
• Practical experience using AI tools in the creative process with sound judgment on when and how to apply them

Bonus points

• Motion, video, or illustration experience applied to brand systems or campaigns
• Experience art directing complex brand work with external creative partners

Compensation

• The expected salary range for this role is $187,000 - $234,000.
• However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate's location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity.
• Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.