Brand Design Manager, Growth

The role

You will lead designers responsible for growth creative across paid social, digital marketing, email, lifecycle marketing, events, and account-based marketing campaigns. This is a hands-on creative leadership role that involves shaping creative direction and mentoring designers.

What you will do

• Lead creative direction and execution across growth campaigns, paid social, digital experiences, email and lifecycle journeys, industry and growth marketing events, and account-based marketing.
• Manage and mentor the designers responsible for growth creative through active creative partnership, hands-on feedback, and close involvement in the work.
• Partner directly with producers to prioritize, resource, and balance work across designers and projects.
• Collaborate closely with growth, lifecycle, events, and account-based marketing partners to shape briefs and influence creative strategy.
• Contribute to defining the what alongside stakeholders.
• Help evolve and steward Brex’s visual identity and brand expression across channels and touchpoints.
• Translate complex business concepts into clear, compelling, and emotionally resonant visual storytelling.
• Maintain a high bar for craft across typography, layout, systems thinking, and visual execution.
• Present work confidently to stakeholders and articulate creative rationale.
• Push creative boundaries through growth experiments and creative testing.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in brand design within agency and/or in-house creative teams.
• Experience leading high-impact creative work while remaining deeply hands-on in execution and craft.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional concept-driven design work across campaigns, storytelling, brand systems, experiential, and digital experiences.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills with experience coaching, mentoring, or guiding designers through the work.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and contribute strategically to creative direction and brand development.
• High level of craft across typography, layout, visual systems, art direction, and storytelling.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate creative decisions and rationale.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Proficient in Figma.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI visual creation tools (Nano Banana, Midjourney, etc.)
• Experience with motion and animation tools (After Effects, Jitter, etc.)
• Experience working on both B2B and B2C brands
• Experience leading integrated campaign or experiential work across multiple channels and audiences

Benefits

• Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work

About the company

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. It combines global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software.