Director, Brand Creative (Design)

Sunbit•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$200,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Sunbit is hiring a Director, Brand Creative (Design) to lead and elevate the company’s visual identity across consumer and business touchpoints. Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, this senior creative leader owns the design function, including brand identity systems and design language, campaign creative, digital and product marketing design, motion and video, and executive presentations. The role partners closely with the Director, Copywriting & Editorial so visual identity and messaging work together. The Director will guide the continued evolution of Sunbit’s visual identity as the company scales nationally, creating clear, consistent, and compelling experiences for consumers, merchant partners, investors, and employees. The role requires particular care for accuracy, consistency, and compliance in the regulated fintech industry. The successful candidate will build scalable design infrastructure and workflows, collaborate across marketing and product teams, and hire, mentor, and manage in-house and freelance design talent.

Requirements

At least 10 years of design experience, including at least 3 years in a senior or lead creative role.
A portfolio demonstrating range across brand identity and campaign creative, digital and performance design, motion and video, and executive presentations.
Deep expertise in building visual identity systems, brand guidelines, and design systems from the ground up.
Ability to collaborate with copy, brand, and marketing teams in a fast-moving environment while maintaining craft.
Strong art direction instincts and ability to give clear, constructive creative direction to designers and agency partners.
Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to consistency and compliance.
Experience designing for regulated or complex industries where clarity, accuracy, and trust are important.
Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects.
Fluency with presentation and prototyping tools and working knowledge of motion, video, and print production.
Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, including comfort presenting creative rationale to senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience in-house at a consumer brand, fintech, or high-growth company.
Fintech or consumer financial services experience.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve Sunbit’s visual identity, design language, brand guidelines, and design systems for consumer and merchant audiences.
Build and maintain scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and a centralized asset library or DAM.
Partner with Copywriting & Editorial to develop design and copy together and ensure visual and narrative cohesion.
Serve as the design authority across marketing, maintaining consistency, quality, and compliance in outbound creative.
Art direct and design integrated campaigns across paid media, out-of-home, digital, email, CRM, and social.
Lead design for the website, landing pages, and product marketing materials.
Produce and oversee social, editorial, and content design that supports brand authority and performance.
Direct motion, video, and photography from concept and storyboards through final edit, working with creative and production partners.
Design investor decks, board presentations, and executive narratives in partnership with leadership.
Support PR and communications with visual assets, brand imagery, and event and trade show creative.
Design internal communications and environmental branding that communicate company strategy, brand, and culture.
Partner with demand generation, CRM, partner marketing, and product teams to meet design needs with speed and quality.
Build and maintain design processes, project intake, and creative review workflows.
Hire, mentor, and manage in-house and freelance design talent as the function grows.
Present creative rationale to senior leadership and serve as a trusted creative partner to the CMO and leadership team.