Designer, Brand Expression

Kate Farms • Goleta, CA

28d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Designer, Brand Expression who can bring the Kate Farms brand to life across every touchpoint—from digital to print, campaigns to conferences, social to sales. You are a multidisciplinary designer with strong craft, sharp taste, and a love for creating work that’s both beautiful and purposeful. In this role, you will sit at the center of our in-house brand and creative team, shaping how the world experiences Kate Farms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, or related field, or equivalent experience with a portfolio that demonstrates strong craft and brand storytelling.
• 4–7 years of design experience in-house or at an agency.
• A design generalist with depth in craft: typography, layout, color, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; comfortable creating light motion and animation (After Effects or similar).
• A design thinker and maker who thrives on collaboration and creativity.
• Curious, culturally aware, and drawn to mission-driven work.
• Strong sense of taste and visual intuition-you know when something looks right.
• Systems-minded: you bring organization, consistency, and clarity to creative chaos
• Comfortable moving from concept to execution, generating ideas, building campaign visuals, and collaborating on social and influencer creative.
• Strong commitment to company mission and values.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Respectfully shares and accepts feedback willingly from all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in CPG, wellness, or mission-driven brands preferred.
• Interest in nutrition and health, but brings a fresh, culturally aware sensibility that pushes our category forward.
• Experience building toolkits and visual systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design across the full brand ecosystem-consumer and HCP audiences, owned & paid channels, campaigns & toolkits, social & digital content, sales & event materials.
• Translate creative direction into cohesive, elevated visual executions that build brand consistency and distinction.
• Collaborate closely with the Creative Producer and Brand team to deliver assets that are channel-appropriate and high-impact.
• Support the VP of Brand (and future Creative Director) in evolving the Kate Farms visual identity and ensuring design excellence across all brand touchpoints.
• Collaborate with external agencies, freelancers, and production partners, giving thoughtful direction and creative feedback that pushes work to its best expression.
• Create light motion assets and animations for social and digital channels.
• Maintain and grow our brand toolkit-templates, visual systems, and design standards that enable scale.
• Present your ideas clearly, articulating the “why” behind design decisions to both creative and non-creative partners.
• Supports diverse hiring and related initiatives to meet company goals.

Benefits

• For full-time salaried or hourly workers, our total rewards package also include the option to enroll in a company-matched 401k plan, as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents.
• Employees will also receive a generous PTO benefit with a starting accrual of 15 days per year (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure), two weeks of paid “Refresh” leave, 80 hours of paid sick leave annually, and 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Kate Farms offers a range of other benefits offered with an emphasis on employee well-being such as paid disability leave, paid parental / pregnancy leave, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), tuition reimbursement, an Employee Assistance Program, and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees