Senior Brand Designer

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

2d•$170,000 - $190,000

About The Position

We’re looking for a curious mind, a multidisciplinary Senior Designer / Art Director who can concept and create standout work across integrated marketing, growth marketing, brand storytelling, and experiential environments. You’re equal parts brand builder and performance-minded thinker, comfortable designing thumb-stopping paid ads one day, and shaping immersive physical/digital brand moments the next. You bring a sharp creative point of view, strong visual craft, and the ability to translate insights and ideas into work that drives both brand awareness and conversion.

Requirements

6+ years experience as a Designer, Senior Designer, or Art Director in an in-house brand, agency, or hybrid environment, with a focus on integrated marketing campaigns & consumer-focused brand campaigns.
Proven ability to create both brand-building and performance-oriented creative.
Expert-level visual design craft: layout, color, typography, motion.
Strong conceptual thinker with the ability to generate ideas that scale across channels.
Comfort with rapid-iteration creative testing (A/B variants, hooks, formats).
High proficiency in Figma, Adobe CC (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), and familiarity with 3D or motion tools a plus.
An understanding of AI image & video development tools (like Krea, Midjourney, Runway, Gemini).
Understanding of production for digital, print, and environmental executions.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing for experiential/physical environments, spatial storytelling, and environmental graphics is a plus.
Motion design capability or ability to brief motion designers.
3D design exposure (Cinema 4D, Blender, or similar).

Responsibilities

Lead visual development for integrated campaigns across brand, growth, lifecycle, and experiential.
Create high-performing performance ads (static, video storyboards, social formats) informed by testing insights.
Develop brand campaigns, including mood boards, storyboards, motion direction, and visual systems.
Design for experiential environments, including pop-ups, installations, OOH, live brand activations, and physical signage systems.
Partner with the broader Marketing & Product teams to turn ideas into breakthrough creative.
Collaborate with copywriters, producers, other designers, and external partners & agencies to create compelling creative for customers and business partners alike.
Present work clearly and confidently to creative leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Raise the visual bar, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints—digital, social, print, and real-world experiences.
Maintain high executional quality across fast-paced iterative testing environments.

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