Brand Design Manager

✅ What You’ll Do

• Creative-Team Strategy & Project Management: Lead the Flex creative team (both in-house and freelance/vendors) to be highly creative, strategic, and efficient—driving team goals, project execution, and cross-functional alignment across all creative initiatives – with metrics, budget and timelines at the forefront.
• Hands-on Creation: Balance strategic leadership with hands-on design work across tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Midjourney, and emerging AI platforms. Video editing skills are a must.
• Ensuring Creative Excellence: Build a five-star Flex brand that’s visually consistent, thoughtful, and high-impact—highlighting the brand-vision, refined taste, and awareness.
• Collaboration at Scale: Operate as a creative subject matter to lead creative conversations at all levels of the business, including leadership presentations, approval management and alignment with teams such as product, operations, sales and cs.  
• Product Design Alignment & Consistency: Alignment with the Product Design organization to ensure overall brand consistency, collaboration, and participation in cross-functional critiques. 
• Customer Driven Logic and Understanding: Develop the Flex brand to appeal to the correct audience across all channels, speaking to the correct segments of the market with a strong understanding of the Flex ICP.
• Video Strategy and Execution: Help the Flex Brand uplevel goals around video content creation, campaigns, production days, and editing. Work tactically on-set as a director (in partnership with outsourced production), and video editor as needed to polish brand campaigns and rework content to achieve brand goals and metrics. 
• Print Creative Production: Carefully own and optimize creative assets when working with printing houses, credit card manufacturers, packaging firms, and event production companies.
• Culture: Bring values of being an empathetic, inclusive, “human-first” leader, that prioritizes enjoying-the-ride, but delivers on continuously sparking imagination and innovation.

⚡️ What You Bring

• A strong portfolio that showcases immense creative skillset, storytelling, attention to detail, and a strong sense of aesthetics amongst diverse brand design projects.
• Minimum of 5 years of graphic design and video editing experience working within a B2B, high-growth environment. Minimum of 1 year of team management experience.
• Excellent time-management, people-management, communication, organization, presentation, and strategic project-management skills using task-management software such as Asana (or Jira, Monday, etc).
• Strong competency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and creative AI. tools, all while keeping the pulse on evolving software and tools in the field.
• Prior experience working across marketing channels that have unique design requirements such as print-design, web-design, presentation design, video production, paid campaigns, email, affiliate, organic, events and influencer marketing with expertise in co-branding initiatives with partners.
• Expert in managing and editing video campaigns from end to end — overseeing everything from initial scoping and run-of-show to vendor hiring, logistics, and producer coordination, through post-production and final delivery. Continuously evaluating performance and iterating to meet key metrics and campaign goals.  Video editing skills are a must.
• Knowledgeable when working with web developers or product designers ensuring best practices across desktop, mobile, and UX/UI web-performance.
• Focus and attention to detail to help uphold our compliance standards, guidelines and accuracy across creative campaigns.
• Understanding of how to design web-assets to account for accessibility, ensuring reporting and legalities are thoughtfully considered across WCAG, ADA and AODA.
• Effective at both receiving and providing design critique, and evolving creative outputs based on outcomes, data and results.