Principal Brand Designer

The role

You will define the brand design system and turn business strategy into design. You will lead company-defining projects and mentor others as a leadership individual contributor.

What you will do

• Set creative direction by turning business goals and audience insights into ideas.
• Lead company-defining projects from open questions to finished work.
• Set the bar for quality and taste in typography, imagery, layout, and brand design.
• Build and evolve the brand system and visual identity.
• Connect brand and product by working with product, marketing, and engineering.
• Raise the quality of the team's work through mentoring and collaboration.
• Tell stories to drive alignment with partners.

Required qualifications

• A deep portfolio of brand identities, marketing campaigns, brand in product experiences, and digital applications.
• Excellent design fundamentals and the ability to carry an idea through to finished work.
• Experience leading complex projects independently.
• The ability to negotiate, compromise, or understand trade-offs with executives and XFN partners.
• The ability to connect creative choices to the audience, the product, and the business.
• A record of helping other designers improve and working well with people across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Using AI tooling and agents to explore and iterate.
• Both agency and in-house experience.
• Side hobbies exploring design and creativity.
• A portfolio that reveals a story about how you've grown, your interests, and curiosities.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering
• Health and wellness stipend
• Budget for intra-office travel
• Weekly coffee stipend
• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed at Ramp
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
• Pet insurance
• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

About the company

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. They automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies.