Senior Marketing Designer

At Mudflap, we're modernizing the $1 trillion trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. By helping over 100,000 underserved small businesses save over $1 billion on fuel, Mudflap has quickly grown into a profitable fintech platform that processes billions in annual payment volume.

Mudflap is transforming the trucking industry by building products that make running a trucking business easier and more profitable. As we grow our core business and bring new products to market, we are looking for a Senior Marketing Designer to help shape how those stories come to life.

You'll be a hands on creative leader to our Marketing team, owning work from early concept through polished execution across campaigns, web, lifecycle, product launches, events, and more. You'll help evolve Mudflap's brand as we grow while creating work that's distinctive, approachable, and authentic to the trucking community.

This isn't a role where you'll wait for a perfectly packaged creative brief. We're looking for someone curious about the customer and business problem behind the ask, comfortable developing a point of view, and excited to iterate when data or feedback tells us something new.

Work Location: This role is based in Palo Alto, CA and involves a hybrid work approach, balancing in-office collaboration with the ability to work remotely.

To support our team, we offer:

• Commuter benefits to ease your travel

• Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled

• A collaborative, high-growth environment where you’ll work closely with talented teammates across the company

Expectations (In this role, you will):

• Own marketing design projects from concept through execution and launch across web, paid, lifecycle, social, product launches, events, and print.

• Translate complex products and ideas into simple, compelling visual stories that resonate with our customers.

• Lead in-house designers, and partner closely with Marketing functions, agencies and cross-functional teams to understand business needs and develop creative solutions - not just execute briefs.

• Help evolve Mudflap’s visual identity while maintaining a consistent, scalable brand experience across channels.

• Use customer insights, performance data, and testing to iterate and improve creative, balancing high-quality craft with speed.

• Leverage AI and emerging creative tools to accelerate ideation, process and execution, while improving the systems and workflows that help Marketing move faster.

Experience (What we look for):

• 5+ years of marketing, brand, or visual design experience, ideally in a growth-stage or fast-paced technology environment.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, visual craft, and multichannel marketing design across digital and physical touchpoints.

• Proven ability to own projects end-to-end, from brief and creative concepts through final production.

• Strong understanding of how design supports customer, marketing, and business objectives, with the ability to navigate feedback and changing priorities.

• Fluency in Figma and modern creative tools; experience with Webflow, Framer, motion, lifecycle/email, and AI creative tools is a plus.

• Resourceful, highly collaborative, and comfortable moving quickly and independently in ambiguity.

• Bonus for fintech, marketplace, logistics, or B2B/B2C technology experience.

Perks and Benefits (What we offer):

• Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup

• Multiple health benefit options

• Responsible Time Off

• 401(k) matching

• Opportunities and support for major career growth

• Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)

The salary range for this role is $144,000 - $160,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidate's skills, experience, and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation.

Company Overview (Who we are):

Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex.

Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

• Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do

• Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work

• Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates

• Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail

• Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions, take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of what’s possible