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As the Brand Director, you’ll lead with vision, craft, and strategic insight-shaping how brands come to life across digital and experiential touchpoints. Building on Metalab’s legacy of design excellence, you’ll champion the creative direction and strategic development of brand experiences that connect meaningfully with users, drive business impact, and push the boundaries of what brand can mean in the digital era.\nAs a director, you’ll blend thought leadership with hands-on mentorship. You’ll cultivate an environment where teams are inspired to create their best work, ensuring every brand we touch embodies clarity, creativity, and craft.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead the Work\nDefine the vision for brand design at Metalab-elevating our brand practice to new levels of creative excellence.\nGuide and mentor Brand Designers of all levels through all stages of the brand process-from insight to identity to expression.\nPartner with clients at a strategic level, helping founders and executives articulate, evolve, and scale their brands for digital-first environments.\nOversee and refine brand systems that translate seamlessly into product experiences, marketing ecosystems, and motion design.\nEnsure every brand engagement-internal or client-facing-embodies clarity, consistency, and purpose.\nShape Creative Direction\nDrive the creative process for major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines.\nCollaborate with Product Design leadership to ensure cohesive brand-to-product experiences.\nLead cross-disciplinary reviews, elevating critique culture and building team fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft.\nPush creative boundaries by integrating motion, 3D, and interaction design to create dynamic, immersive brand moments.\nChampion Collaboration and Growth\nPartner closely with the Chief Design Officer and Partnerships team in new business pursuits-pitching visionary, brand-led design approaches.\nCollaborate with Marketing to ensure Metalab’s own brand maintains the highest standard of craft and cohesion across all expressions.\nFoster team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity, ensuring Metalab remains a place where designers grow and thrive.\nBuild bridges across disciplines, connecting brand, product, and marketing to create holistic experiences.\nTechnical & Strategic Competencies\nVisionary Brand Leadership\n You inspire creative excellence, lead with clarity, and communicate a compelling brand vision that motivates teams and earns client trust. You’re adept at balancing creative risk-taking with strategic rigor-ensuring every brand direction is both aspirational and grounded in business value.\nHands on Design Craft\n You don’t just direct great design; you do it. As one of the most senior contributors in the work, you lead by example with exceptional craft and attention to detail. You’re fluent in modern tools and practices, able to concept, design, and refine at a world-class level. You bring hands-on design energy to pitches, reviews, and live work, ensuring every output reflects the highest creative standards.\nBrand Systems Expertise\n You translate complex ideas into coherent, scalable brand systems-visual, verbal, and experiential. You understand how identity lives across environments, from pixels to motion to storytelling, and can direct others to execute at this level.\nStrategic Storytelling\n You see brand as narrative-how story, identity, and experience intersect. You guide teams and clients through this lens, helping them articulate what makes their brand meaningful and distinctive.\nCross-Disciplinary Collaboration\n You work fluidly across product design, strategy, and marketing, ensuring brand vision permeates all layers of experience. You bring a systems mindset to brand-building, connecting the dots across every touchpoint.\nMentorship & Critique\n You elevate the design community within Metalab by coaching, inspiring, and setting standards for exceptional creative work. You foster a culture of constructive critique and shared learning.\nRequirements\n10+ years of experience in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership-preferably in a digital-first environment.\nProven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution.\nA portfolio that demonstrates mastery in visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints.\nExperience presenting to executive stakeholders, with the ability to translate creative thinking into strategic outcomes.\nProficiency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.) and an understanding of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content.\nStrong facilitation and communication skills-you guide workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy.\nDeep knowledge of design trends, emerging tools, and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem.\nA passion for mentoring others and shaping the future of design culture at Metalab.\nEqual opportunity employer\nResearch shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyways! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life. 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