Brand Design Manager, Visual Systems

Zymo Research Corporation•Tustin, CA

3d•$100,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

Zymo Research is seeking a Brand Design Manager, Visual Systems to strengthen the company’s visual identity, creative consistency, and design systems across marketing channels. This role will bring greater cohesion, clarity, and polish to how the brand shows up across digital, print, social, campaign, product, and event touchpoints. Working closely with the Marketing Director, this person will translate Zymo Research’s brand strategy, voice, and philosophy into a practical visual communication system. The goal is to build the standards, templates, and design logic that make strong creative work more consistent and scalable.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in brand design, visual identity, graphic design, art direction, or creative systems.
Strong portfolio showing excellent design judgment, typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency.
Strong understanding of design as a visual and creative problem-solving discipline — not decoration.
Experience developing brand guidelines, templates, visual systems, or design standards.
Ability to translate brand strategy and voice into practical visual principles.
Strong creative review skills and the ability to guide designers without micromanaging.
Understanding of how brand design adapts across digital, print, social, campaigns, presentations, events, and product collateral.
Strong organizational instincts around templates, asset libraries, file structure, and design process.
Ability to work cross-functionally with marketing, creative, web, scientific, product, and commercial stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience in life science, biotech, healthcare, technical B2B, or another complex industry.
Experience working with in-house creative teams.
Experience directing photography, video visuals, campaign imagery, or social-first creative.
Familiarity with web/UX design systems and how they connect to broader brand identity.
Experience using AI or emerging creative tools to support visual exploration, template development, or production efficiency.

Responsibilities

Refine and maintain Zymo Research’s visual identity across campaigns, social media, email, print, presentations, trade shows, product collateral, photography, and digital touchpoints.
Translate brand strategy into clear visual principles, including typography, layout, color usage, imagery, hierarchy, iconography, and overall design philosophy.
Help build the next version of Zymo Research’s brand guide, moving beyond logos and colors into a practical visual system.
Create and refine templates for recurring needs such as decks, social media, email headers, campaign assets, brochures, product sheets, event materials, and internal communications.
Guide and review in-house design work to ensure strong visual hierarchy, clarity, polish, and brand consistency.
Provide clear creative feedback and serve as a key reviewer for major brand and marketing assets.
Help organize existing templates and assets, identify outdated or inconsistent materials, and support cleaner file systems, approved examples, and version control.
Partner with project and operations leads to improve creative intake, review, and delivery workflows.
Work closely with Marketing, Product Marketing, Scientific Communications, Social Media, Commercial, Creative, and Web/UX teams to ensure Zymo Research’s visual identity is expressed consistently across channels.