About the Brand & Creative team

The Brand & Creative team at MURAL is a newly formed team consisting of visual designers, animators, illustrators, producers, and all around talented & humble people. We are a fully remote &  global team, spanning San Francisco, Austin, New York, Buenos Aires, and Brisbane. We are on a mission to power up imaginations everywhere with beautiful, playful, and differentiated design & storytelling and we’re looking for like minded goal-oriented, talented individuals to join us on this mission. We play to win, and aim to incorporate “fun” in everything we do! 

YOUR MISSION

As a Visual Design Lead on the Brand & Creative team, you will help shape our culture of design and play an instrumental role in crafting how our brand manifests visually across many mediums. You will have the unique opportunity to hire and manage a small team of visual designers, leading & championing them to do the best work of their careers. 

Our ideal candidate excels at pulling cross-functional teams closer together, leads with empathy and compassion, obsesses over the details, and encourages us to explore the farthest dimensions of our brand’s expression. This is considered to be a player-coach role: one where you’re still hands on crafting beautiful design work, while also mentoring and leading a small team.

Responsibilities will include

• Being the design liaison between many cross-functional teams within the company (product design, community, culture)
• Building scalable systems, playbooks, and processes that enable consistent high-quality experiences across multiple channels and campaigns.
• Coach, mentor, hire, and inspire our growing team of brand designers.
• Help to define & implement MURAL’s refreshed visual brand 
• Leading design & creative for many initiatives including: campaigns, social media, events, animations, Learning & Community, email, and so much more
• Ensure brand consistency and also help identify where to push the brand’s boundaries
• Working closely with the other team leads and head of Brand & Creative to ensure brand consistency, team health, team culture, and work review cadences 
• Find areas of improvement and propose new and better solutions

YOUR PROFILE

• 6+ years of visual design or art direction experience
• 2+ years people management experience
• Experience art directing for online and offline events, campaigns, photography, and video
• Experience designing for web, social, email, print, and environments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• An excellent portfolio with case studies that showcase your design foundations as well as your leadership on teams and projects
• Strong business acumen and ability to balance needs of the brand, the business, and its constraints.
• Creative agency background as well as relevant experience building and managing in-house creative teams
• Experience working in a goal-oriented organization with tight deadlines