Brand Design Lead

Own and evolve the Descript brand across campaigns, web experiences, and events while building systems that scale with partners and AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and extend the Descript brand presence across campaigns, web, and events
• Lead concept and design for launches and campaigns from brief through delivery
• Develop brand systems and toolkits that scale in expected and unexpected ways
• Enable product, marketing, and sales partners to create on-brand assets without direct dependency
• Use AI tools and processes to scale output while maintaining quality
• Direct internal and external creative partners spanning illustrators to design engineers
• Mentor designers and serve as an ambassador for craft across the company
• Set a high bar and execute work that exceeds it

Requirements

• 6+ years of brand design experience in-house or agency
• Portfolio demonstrating both strategic thinking and executional craft across web, social, and paid channels
• Strong command of typography, color, and composition
• Evidence of building a brand system that scaled beyond individual output
• Experience directing outside creative partners
• Fluency with AI tools to produce and scale work, with a clear perspective on where not to use them
• Brand work within a SaaS company, especially the creative software space
• Motion, front-end dev, or illustration skills
• Experience creating generative brand tooling
• Comfort with being on camera and sharing work publicly

About the Role

• Descript helps creators and companies tell stories through video
• The creative team supports ensuring the brand aligns with the ethos of customers
• Reporting to the Director of Brand & Content
• Hybrid work in San Francisco, CA
• Salary range: USD 140,000 - 185,000 per year

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package
• 401k matching program
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time

About Descript

• Building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio
• Team size: 150
• Backed by OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital
• HQ in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA
• Hiring includes a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles
• Remote: limited in-person collaboration opportunities throughout the year
• Hybrid: flexible expectations, not requiring every-day office presence

Success looks like: challenging and evolving the identity, launching campaigns and immersive web moments you are proud of, collaborating across teams, learning from shipped work, and creating work that fits the brand across channels.