Brand Design Manager, Growth

Brex • Seattle, WA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Brex is seeking a Manager, Brand Design (Growth) to join its cross-disciplinary Design team. The team aims to build a category-defining brand and move key business metrics through high-quality creative. Reporting to the Executive Creative Director, this role leads the designers responsible for growth creative across paid social, digital marketing, email and lifecycle marketing, industry and growth marketing events, and account-based marketing campaigns.

This is a hands-on creative leadership role: the manager contributes directly to execution while mentoring and guiding designers. The role shapes creative direction and strategy with marketing partners, raises the quality and rigor of final work, and partners with producers, channel owners, and marketing leads to shape briefs, prioritize workstreams, and guide projects from concept through execution. The successful candidate balances creative quality, business goals, and team development, using growth experiments and creative testing to learn and iterate.

The role is based in Brex’s San Francisco, Seattle, or New York office. The hybrid schedule requires three days per week in the office—Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday—with up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in brand design within agency and/or in-house creative teams.
• Experience leading high-impact creative work while remaining deeply hands-on in execution and craft.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional concept-driven design across campaigns, storytelling, brand systems, experiential work, and digital experiences.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, including experience coaching, mentoring, or guiding designers through the work.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and contribute strategically to creative direction and brand development.
• High level of craft across typography, layout, visual systems, art direction, and storytelling.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly articulate creative decisions and rationale.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in Figma.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI visual creation tools such as Nano Banana or Midjourney.
• Experience with motion and animation tools such as After Effects or Jitter.
• Experience working on both B2B and B2C brands.
• Experience leading integrated campaign or experiential work across multiple channels and audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative direction and execution across growth campaigns, paid social, digital experiences, email and lifecycle journeys, industry and growth marketing events, and account-based marketing.
• Manage and mentor growth creative designers through active creative partnership, hands-on feedback, and close involvement in their work.
• Partner with producers to prioritize, resource, and balance work across designers and projects.
• Collaborate with growth, lifecycle, events, and account-based marketing partners to shape briefs and influence creative strategy from the earliest stages.
• Help define creative direction and strategy alongside stakeholders, rather than focusing only on execution.
• Evolve and steward Brex’s visual identity and brand expression across channels and touchpoints.
• Translate complex business concepts into clear, compelling, and emotionally resonant visual storytelling.
• Maintain a high standard of craft across typography, layout, systems thinking, and visual execution.
• Present work to stakeholders and articulate creative rationale thoughtfully and persuasively.
• Run growth experiments and creative testing, using performance insights to guide iterations while keeping work strategically grounded and operationally effective.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
• Equity and other forms of compensation may be provided depending on the position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed