Role details
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.