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Building on Parallel's reputation for design, you'll own the creative direction and strategic development of brand experiences that resonate with people, move the business, and expand what a brand can be in a digital-first world.\nAs a director, you'll pair thought leadership with hands-on mentorship. You'll create the conditions for teams to do their best work, and make sure every brand we touch carries clarity, creativity, and craft.\nWhat You'll DoLead the work\nDefine the vision for brand design at Parallel and raise our brand practice to a new level of creative excellence.\n\nGuide and mentor brand designers at every level, through the whole journey from insight to identity to expression.\n\nPartner with clients strategically, helping founders and executives shape, evolve, and scale their brands for a digital-first world.\n\nBuild and refine brand systems that carry cleanly into product experiences, marketing, and motion.\n\nMake sure every engagement, ours or a client's, holds clarity, consistency, and purpose.\n\nShape creative direction\nDrive the creative process on major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines.\n\nWork closely with product design leadership so brand and product feel like one coherent experience.\n\nLead cross-disciplinary critique, lifting the team's fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft.\n\nPush creative boundaries with motion, 3D, and interaction to create brand moments that feel alive.\n\nChampion collaboration and growth\nPartner with design leadership and help win new work by pitching bold, brand-led approaches.\n\nKeep Parallel's own brand at the highest bar of craft and cohesion across everything we put out.\n\nBuild a team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity, where designers grow and thrive.\n\nConnect brand, product, and marketing so the experience holds together end to end.\n\nWhat You Bring\nVisionary brand leadership. You inspire creative excellence, communicate a clear and compelling brand vision, and earn client trust. You balance creative risk with strategic rigour, so every direction is both aspirational and grounded in business value.\n\nHands-on craft. You don't just direct great design, you do it. As one of the most senior makers in the room, you lead by example with exceptional craft and detail, and bring real design energy to pitches, reviews, and live work.\n\nBrand systems expertise. You turn complex ideas into coherent, scalable systems across visual, verbal, and experiential, and you know how an identity holds up across environments, from a screen to motion to a physical moment.\n\nStrategic storytelling. You see brand as narrative, where story, identity, and experience meet, and you guide teams and clients to articulate what makes their brand meaningful and distinct.\n\nCross-disciplinary collaboration. You move fluidly across product, strategy, and marketing, bringing a systems mindset that connects every touchpoint.\n\nMentorship and critique. You raise the people around you through coaching, high standards, and a culture of honest, constructive feedback.\n\nRequirements\n8+ years in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership, ideally in a digital-first environment.\n\nProven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution.\n\nA portfolio that shows mastery of visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints.\n\nExperience presenting to executive stakeholders and turning creative thinking into strategic outcomes.\n\nFluency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects) and a real grasp of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content.\n\nComfort with emerging tools, including everyday use of AI in your craft.\n\nStrong facilitation and communication skills, guiding workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy.\n\nDeep knowledge of design trends and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem.\n\nA passion for mentoring and shaping design culture.\n\nHow We HireThe bar is high and the role is senior, so we take the process seriously and move quickly. Expect a couple of conversations with the team, then a small, paid real-world project so we can see how you actually think and work. The role is remote. 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