Brand Design Team Lead

We are seeking an accomplished Brand Design Lead to head our Brand Design team. In this role, you will champion the creative vision and strategic direction of Sumsub's visual identity across marketing touchpoints — from research reports and presentations to social and campaign creative. Your focus will be on building a distinctive, scalable brand system that sustains constant, high-volume creative output with consistent craft.

You will lead the Brand Design team to produce bold, systems-driven creative that elevates our identity and drives recognition across a fast-moving fintech/compliance space. If you have a passion for building brand systems that scale and a sharp eye for confident, graphic craft, this role is for you.

We Are Looking For Someone Who:

• Thinks about brand as a system: You build scalable visual frameworks, component libraries, and documented guidelines, ensuring every report, deck, or social post feels like a natural extension of the whole.

• Has a strong, confident point of view on aesthetics: You gravitate toward bold, saturated, graphic, and structurally honest design, and you can articulate that point of view with clear rationale.

• Is equally fluent in print and digital: You move comfortably between print production (bleed, CMYK, paper stock, physical layout) and digital marketing formats (social creative, campaign assets, motion), giving both disciplines real craft and attention.

• Works comfortably with cross-functional partners: You collaborate fluidly with content and marketing teams, translating business goals and campaign briefs into visual direction that holds together at scale.

• Designs with reusability and velocity in mind: You prioritize templates, documented components, and repeatable systems that let a high-output team ship consistently.

Your Role

• Creative Leadership — Inspire and mentor the Brand Design team, setting ambitious quality benchmarks and fostering a collaborative environment focused on pushing the boundaries of what our brand can look and feel like.

• Brand Strategy & System Ownership — Define and evolve Sumsub's brand system: color, typography, layout conventions, and visual voice. You will keep the identity sharp and current while ensuring it scales cleanly across print collateral, reports, decks, and campaign creative.

• Cross-Format Creative Direction — Guide the team across a wide marketing production surface spanning print and digital — research reports, presentation decks, social and LinkedIn creative, campaign landing pages, and event/print collateral — maintaining a confident, structurally honest visual language across every medium.

• Quality & Consistency — Establish and uphold brand guidelines and review processes across print and digital work alike. You will conduct regular design reviews, catching inconsistencies in typography, color logic, chart/data-visualization treatment, and layout before they ship.

• Delivery Operations — Oversee the team's creative pipeline (briefs, task tracking, prioritization) to keep a high volume of concurrent campaigns and requests moving with strong craft.

• Stakeholder Communication — Clearly articulate the "why" behind brand decisions to marketing and leadership, bridging creative execution and business goals to ensure brand work serves the company's growth and credibility.

About You:

• Experience: 5+ years specializing in brand design, with a portfolio showing systems thinking across both print and digital marketing formats (reports, decks, campaigns, social, print collateral).

• Leadership: 2+ years leading a design team, with a track record of mentoring designers and improving creative workflows.

• Aesthetic Point of View: A demonstrable, confident visual sensibility with a natural pull toward bold, saturated, and graphic direction.

• Cross-Medium Proficiency: Solid grasp of print production fundamentals (bleed, color modes, print-ready file prep) alongside digital marketing design practices (social formats, campaign assets, basic motion literacy).

• Tooling Expertise: Master-level proficiency in Figma, including building and maintaining component libraries and documented brand systems; comfort with presentation and document tools (PowerPoint/Google Slides, InDesign or equivalent for print).

• Systems Mindset: Experience building and documenting brand guidelines that a growing team can apply consistently, including conventions for typography scales, chart/data-viz styling, and cross-format layout rules.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

• Communication: Fluent in English (C1 or higher) with the ability to manage projects from brief to final delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams.

What We Offer:

• Remote-first, trust-based culture. Work from the place that works best for you. No mandatory office days, no attendance trackers. In some locations, we provide offices or coworking spaces, but the choice is yours.

• True flexibility. We do not fix you to a 9-to-5 schedule. You can adjust your working hours when needed, as long as your day stays productive and in sync with the team.

• Extra time off. Your birthday is a holiday here. Add to that 10 personal days each year, seven sick days without paperwork, and extra time to enjoy Christmas and New Year. Time to rest is part of the deal.

• Work that matters. Our mission is to build a digital world that is secure, accessible and inclusive for everyone. From fighting fraud to making online services easier and safer to use, your work will have a real impact on how people experience trust online.

• Compensation. We offer fair and transparent pay, benchmarked to the market.

• Truly global. We work across continents and time zones, with teammates and customers from all over the world. You will run campaigns that cross borders, cultures, and languages, and see your ideas land worldwide.

• Growth built in. Clear goals, open feedback and personal development plans. We support your progress with learning opportunities and by covering role-specific events, from design conferences to marketing forums.

• Celebrating your big moments. We are proud to support you through life’s biggest journeys with dedicated financial bonuses for both marriage and welcoming a new baby to your family.

• Team offsites. Sometimes just Slack is not enough. That is why we meet in person a few times a year. Trips are fully covered, so you can meet, collaborate, and recharge together.

• Getting you set up. We make sure you have access to the tools and hardware you need to do your work well.

• Friendly by design. Our logo is a dog for a reason. We keep things human, open and kind. We welcome individuality, quirks and different perspectives, because that is what makes our work smarter and more fun.

The hiring stages: TA screening -> Interview with Director of Brand Design -> Assignment -> Interview with CMO -> Meet the Team.