Principal Brand Designer

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re number 9 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor’s list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. So, join us to build tomorrow, today.

**About the Design team**

We’re a fully complementary team of researchers, writers, designers and operations, where some are embedded into small project teams and others work across multiple projects.

**About the Brand Design team**

We work from the beginning to the end of the creative process, we deliver customer focussed designed experiences that drive brand awareness, engagement and excitement with our audiences - whoever they may be.

We’re a community of creatives spanning across motion animation, events and physical experiences, presentation specialists and much much more.

**Brand Designers at Checkout**

Brand designers at Checkout constantly push for better, not just different. We create, test and develop systems and processes that enable us to create work of the highest quality, constantly evolving and pushing our brand. Our designers excel at succinctly describing design choices that are precise, obvious and elegant, making our brand as iconic as possible.

**Principal Brand Designer is an expert in the following**:

- Inspire everyone around you in creating a culture of excellence, and thrive on teaching, coaching and mentoring designers
- Oversee the work of external and internal partners to ensure everything meets our standards and is of course on brand
- Master level in understanding, translating and articulating brand strategy, turning it into world leading brand communications and experiences
- Master in writing, questioning and managing briefs, working in collaboration with stakeholders and the team to fully understand the needs and requirements of the brief and how they impact the business.
- High ability to focus on understanding and disseminating the intricacies of entire businesses or systems. Deeply knowledgeable of both highly complex user requirements and highly technical solutions.
- You’re able to quickly and creatively visualise intangible and abstract business processes, turning these into compelling creative solutions
- A master of your craft and are hands on, constantly pushing your work until all details are resolved elegantly
- A true guardian of our brand, with a great understanding of brand and branding and how we utilise these across various channels and communications - with an expert understanding in how customers interact with our brand, how brands our brand needs to flex and how to develop and constantly challenge our brand.
- A master in presenting your work, the process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and you’re proactive in getting constructive feedback to help you produce your best work
- Amazing track record of creating iconic creative work, yet you don’t rest on your laurels and feel your best work is still to come
- You're passionate about Checkout’s vision and purpose

**About you**:

- ** You care deeply.** You believe you have a civic responsibility to your fellow human being that everything is made in the pursuit of perfection. You welcome criticism.
- ** You're not an island.** You can show and tell us how you've helped the people around you get better.
- ** You think in creative systems and approaches. **You can anticipate the ripple effects small and large changes will have on the brand experience.
- ** You highly prize being accountable.** You take ownership for every action, confess faults and failures, strive for better, and build trust.
- ** You place quality over speed,** but you iterate and improve as swiftly as possible.
- ** You're self motivated and can work independently.** Because you can work from anywhere, we trust you to take the initiative making sure everyone has everything they need.
- ** You love learning.** You might not have experience for everything this role requires, but you're excited to grow and learn - sometimes 'wearing many hats' in a team.

**You might be working on**:

- ** Leading and enabling end to end go creative across the business**, specifically intended to precisely communicate what we have to offer and how it meets audiences needs. Learning and understanding each audience and their needs.
- ** Collaborating with the full Design team on our visual alignment and systems**, ensuring we build libraries, develop new solutions and maintain our standards across brand and design.
- ** Overseeing and identifying opportunities across Brand Design and beyond**, creating amazing experiences that are highly personalised for our strategic needs, and providing creative solutions that set new benchmarks for our brand.
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