Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development.

Fastly’s customers use our edge cloud platform to ensure concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love, travelers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real time, across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Spotify, Alaska Airlines, Hulu, The New York Times, and Ticketmaster.

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Director of Brand Design

We are seeking an encouraging and intuitive Design Director to spearhead the evolution of Fastly’s visual brand identity. You will work with partners across the company to build an environment that champions expansive design conversations, and lead a growing team of creatives, providing our designers with the support they need to dream up and deliver outstanding work.

You are a skilled conceptual storyteller with a knack for distilling the complex, thinking holistically, and leading through influence, mentorship, and enablement.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead and encourage a Brand Design team of hardworking in-house and contract creatives, providing high quality, actionable feedback.
• Set brand design vision and team goals.
• Drive the strategy for evolving Fastly’s visual identity and the accompanying visual systems that define our brand.
• Lead the creation of all global brand assets across a range of media including web, digital, print, and video
• Define and run creative workflows that result in high-quality, timely deliverables; prioritize and assign all design tasks.
• Set and uphold the bar for high quality, insightful, and differentiating design work.
• Serve as a strategic partner to internal partners and executive leadership.
• Grow the Brand Design team by attracting and supporting extraordinary creative talent.
• Help lead and creative direct our external agencies, keeping large-scale projects on track.
• Partner with the Content and UX teams to build an authentic, consistent experience across all channels, for both developer and enterprise audiences.
• Drive internal enablement and positive awareness of design trends, brand standards and processes, through a design culture of open collaboration, accessibility, and knowledge sharing.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience: 10+ years creative design experience (at least 6 years leadership experience) 
• with a portfolio demonstrating visual design and branding excellence, as well as proficiency in end-to-end, customer-focused design processes (portfolio link required).
• Brand expertise: Deep knowledge of all aspects of brand identity, including typography, iconography, illustration, visual language and messaging.
• Leadership: You negotiate conflict and difficult decisions with courage and grace, bring tact and compassion to tough discussions, and encourage effective, positive cross-functional collaboration. You are an operational thinker who can translate company goals into an effective system for prioritization of design tasks.
• Inspiration: You are a natural facilitator who enjoys bringing people together to achieve common goals, building an authentic sense of community and purpose, clearing pathways, highlighting your team’s great work, and inspiring passion.
• Influence: You are an articulate, thoughtful, and persuasive communicator, and a strong advocate for our brand, within and outside of Fastly.
• Judgment: You can discern the essential from the non-essential, are deeply trusted for your sound judgment, and excel at giving and receiving candid, actionable feedback.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Employment decisions at Fastly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability*, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Fastly encourages applicants from all backgrounds.

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