Lead Brand Designer

📋 Description

• Take the lead in overseeing the entire design process for digital, print, and video assets. Responsible for bringing concepts to life in a fast-paced, high-impact setting.

• Design and refine brand assets for various platforms like trade shows, paid media, social channels, and presentations, ensuring a consistent and premium brand experience.

• Create scalable design systems and templates (e.g., Canva, PPT) to empower non-designers within the organization to maintain brand consistency.

• Ensure a unified visual identity across all content while adhering to platform-specific requirements and industry best practices.

• Collaborate closely with marketing teams to prototype creative ideas for ads, social content, event materials, and videos, facilitating quick testing and iteration.

• Curate and manage a library of brand assets, such as logos, graphics, photography, and templates, ensuring accessibility and consistency for all stakeholders.

• Establish and enforce brand guidelines to uphold brand integrity and visual coherence across all touchpoints.

• Lead the conceptualization and creation of event branding and design elements, including signage, booth graphics, promotional materials, and digital/video assets.

• Proficient in Asana with the ability to proactively communicate deadlines and manage workload effectively.

• Collaborate with various teams including demand-gen marketing, product, sales, and executive leadership to align creative strategies with business goals.

• Stay ahead of design trends, visual styles, and technologies to ensure Rithum's competitive edge and relevance in the market.

• Develop visually engaging content for marketing channels like social media, email campaigns, website, and digital ads, utilizing a mix of photography, graphic design, and multimedia.

⛳️ Requirements

• Showcase diverse, integrated work through an online portfolio.

• Possess over 5 years of professional design experience covering digital, print, and video formats.

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Adobe XD, and Canva.

• Skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint, capable of creating visually compelling, on-brand presentations, and corporate templates.

• Experience in events booth design.

• Advanced knowledge of branding, marketing, video, animation, and UX principles & processes.

• Strong eye for layout, typography, and composition across various formats from social media to large tradeshow displays.

• Comfortable with ambiguity, able to self-organize, adapt approaches for effectiveness, and challenge when necessary.

• Detail-oriented designer focused on audience experience, collaborating with content for top-notch brand experiences through design.

• Ability to work independently and excel in a small, agile team where flexibility and multitasking are crucial.

• Proactive mindset, able to think systematically about design solutions and anticipate future needs.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to medical, dental, and vision benefits, with affordable healthcare plans and company HSA contributions starting on Day 1.

• Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match.

• Competitive time off package includes 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; with PTO increasing to 22 days at 3 years of service and 25 days at 5 years.

• Receive 12 weeks of primary caregiver leave and 4 weeks of secondary caregiver leave.

• Additional benefits like accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance, pet insurance, legal assistance, identity theft insurance, and life insurance 2x salary.

• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program, $65/month Remote work stipend for internet, culture and team-building activities, tuition assistance, and career development opportunities.

• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year.