Principal Creative Designer, Brand Marketing - Hybrid (Seattle, WA)
About The Position
The Principal Creative Designer is an individual contributor who is a strategic and conceptual thinker with broad creative capabilities across multi-platform digital, print, and environmental design. The role contributes to brand strategy and develops and executes creative concepts that meet business and marketing objectives while supporting brand and creative strategies. It also serves as a thought leader, inspiring and mentoring junior team members. The designer creates accurate and efficient digital deliverables, adapts master templates across channels and formats, and collaborates with marketing, brand, project management, and creative teams. The role calls for curiosity about emerging design tools and technologies, particularly those that support automation and scaled execution. Experience providing direction for video editing or store environments such as signage and visual merchandising is preferred. Applicants should submit a résumé and portfolio link; work demonstrating template systems, design libraries, or scaled campaign executions is encouraged.
Requirements
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, auto layout, variables, and shared library management.
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Proven core design skills, including typography, spatial relationships, and systematic design development.
- Solid understanding of design systems and brand governance, including working within and maintaining them and advocating for consistent use.
- Strong multi-platform digital design skills across web, email, social, and display formats.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables with attention to detail and adherence to deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with marketing, brand, project management, and creative.
- Customer-centric mindset and data-informed design thinking.
- Curiosity about leveraging AI-powered design tools to accelerate design production workflows.
- Curiosity and knowledge of and enthusiasm for fashion and its creative and intellectual universe.
Nice To Haves
- Experience providing direction for video editing.
- Experience with store environments, such as signage or visual merchandising.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to brand strategy and the role of creative in expressing and supporting it.
- Independently drive projects by developing and executing creative concepts that demonstrate vision, meet business and marketing objectives, and support brand and creative strategies.
- Execute digital deliverables accurately and efficiently, adapting master templates across channels and formats.
- Collaborate with marketing, brand, project management, and creative teams.
- Research and implement emerging design tools and technologies, especially those that support automation and execution at scale.
- Provide thought leadership and mentor junior team members.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage options.
- Retirement benefits, including a 401(k).
- Paid time away, PTO accruals, and holidays.
- Life insurance and disability coverage options.
- Merchandise discount.
- EAP resources.
- May be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
