Lead Brand Designer

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As a Lead Brand Designer, you are responsible for being a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary designer who thrives on a variety of influences. You are part of the Content Marketing team, bringing the brand narrative to life through strong creative design in collaboration with product marketing, communications, and executive leadership teams. You are comfortable crafting bold visual expressions and iterating through quick-turn social graphics or designing tradeshow experience. You are someone who wants to own the full design spectrum at a high-growth company and shape how Rithum shows up in every channel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design process across digital, print, and video assets. This person owns everything from concept to execution in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
• Design and iterate on brand assets for trade shows, paid media, social channels, and powerpoint presentations, ensuring consistent and elevated brand experience.
• Develop scalable design systems and templates (I.e. Canva, PPT) that empower non-designers across the organizations to stay on-brand.
• Maintain a consistent visual identity across all content while adapting to platform-specific requirements and best practices.
• Partner closely with marketing teams to prototype creative concepts (ads, social content, event collaterals, videos) to bring them to life quickly for testing and iteration.
• Curate and manage a library of brand assets, including logos, graphics, photography, and slide templates, ensuring accessibility and consistency for internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and enforce brand guidelines to maintain brand integrity and visual coherence across all touchpoints.
• Lead the ideation and development of event branding and design elements, including signage, booth graphics, promotional materials, and digital/video assets.
• Comfortable working in Asana with ability to proactively communicate deadlines and workload management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including demand-gen marketing, product, sales, and executive leadership to align creative strategies with business objectives.
• Proactively explore new design trends, visual styles, and technologies to maintain Rithum's competitive edge and relevance in the market.
• Create visually engaging content for marketing channels including social media, email campaigns, website, and digital ads using a mix of photography, graphic design, and multimedia.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• Must have an online portfolio showcasing diverse, integrated work
• 5+ years of professional design experience across digital, print, and video formats
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Adobe XD, and Canva.
• Fluent in Microsoft PowerPoint, with the ability to create visually compelling and on-brand presentations and corporate templates
• Must have events booth design experience
• Advanced understanding of branding, marketing, video, animation and UX principles & processes.
• Strong eye for layout, typography, and composition across all formats – from social to large scale tradeshow displays
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to self-organize, adapting approach to be effective where necessary, but also able to challenge and steer when relevant.
• Detail-oriented and audience experience focused designer who can partner with content to bring best in class brand experiences through content and design.
• Ability to work autonomously and thrive in small, agile team where flexibility and multi-tasking are essential
• Proactive mindset with the ability to think systematically about design solutions and anticipate future needs
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field/expertise.
• 8+ years of professional design experience across digital, print, and video formats
• Prior work experience with a demonstrated track record of results in a SaaS or e-commerce company.
• Knowledge of Figma and InDesign.
• Web design, coding and video editing skills would be highly desirable, but not essential.
• UX/UI experience for landing page creation.
• Experience in exploration and adoption of AI-based tools to improve design production workflows.

Travel:

• Up to 10%

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

Benefits 

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
• A 6% 401(k) match
• Competitive time off package with 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; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
• 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
• Career development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.