Descript
Brand Design Lead
$140K–$185K
San Francisco, CA or Remote, US +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
Remote
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years in brand design, in-house or agency.
About the job
Evolves Descript’s brand and leads creative concepts and design for campaigns, launches, web experiences, and events while building scalable brand systems.
What you'll do
- Lead campaign and launch concepting and design from brief through delivery; extend the brand across campaigns, web, and events.
- Build brand systems and toolkits that help partners create on-brand assets independently.
- Use AI tools and processes to scale creative work, direct creative partners, and mentor designers.
What they ask for
- 6+ years in brand design, in-house or agency.
- Portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking and executional craft across web, social, and paid channels.
- Strong command of typography, color, and composition; evidence of building a brand system that scaled beyond your output.
- Experience directing outside creative partners and fluency with AI tools, with a clear perspective on where not to use them.
Nice to have
- Brand work within a SaaS company, especially creative software.
- Motion, front-end dev, or illustration skills; experience creating generative brand tooling; or comfort on camera and sharing work publicly.
Pay
$140,000 - $185,000 USD base salary
AI focus
Use AI tools and processes to scale creative work without compromising quality, while exercising judgment about where not to use them.
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