Brand Designer

Brand Designer

The Sage Group’s client, a beloved tech delivery company, is seeking a Brand Designer to join their award-winning in-house creative studio—a multi-disciplinary collective built to inspire, lead, and deliver culture-shaping work across every channel and touchpoint. Made up of creative directors, art directors, copywriters, editorial writers, growth creatives and designers, we exist to infuse creativity into every corner of the business and elevate it as a true driver of growth. Our mission is to build a brand people actually care about—one that shows up meaningfully, solves problems, earns its place in culture, and creates work that hits hard and sticks. Our studio is stacked with some of the best talent in the game, and our ambition is simple: raise the bar with every brief. In 2024, we were named the #2 in-house studio by The One Show and The Drum, and celebrated by Cannes Lions, Fast Company, and more.

About the Role

We're looking for a Brand Designer who can build brand storytelling design inside the creative studio. A core part of this role is executional support for Co-Marketing (Co-Mktg) campaigns by producing video templates, MOFU/LOFU assets, and performance ads that leverage our established design templates at speed and scale. While there is room to lean into high-level concepting, the day-to-day output is largely executional, similar to our casting and production model. You'll be equally comfortable optimizing CRM and performance campaigns for measurable results as you are elevating the brand’s visual expression and design language. Partnering across Brand and Marketing, you'll deliver design that is strategically sharp, emotionally resonant, and unmistakably on-brand. You'll also partner with CGI production studios on select premium productions, art directing opening scenarios rooted in the brand and co-marketing inputs, guiding the pacing, timing, and placement of products while shaping end scenario design. Production will be handled, your role is to provide creative direction and consultative input that keeps work on-brand. You'll be equally comfortable optimizing CRM and performance campaigns for measurable results as you are elevating visual expression and design language. Partnering across Brand and Marketing, you'll deliver design that is strategically sharp, emotionally resonant, and unmistakably on-brand. You'll report to the Head of Design within Marketing, shaping how our studio integrates performance rigor with brand craft.

Responsibilities

• Produce executional Co-Marketing assets at scale—including video templates, MOFU/LOFU ads, and paid/organic social content—using established design templates with speed and consistency.
• Art direct CGI productions with external partners, including envisioning opening scenarios, directing pacing and timing, guiding food and brand element placement, overseeing promo timing, copy cutdowns, and end scenario design.
• Drive conversion-focused assets while ensuring alignment and maintaining consistency of visual identity with this client's brand standards and design language system.
• Collaborate with program managers, marketers, product, and copywriters to turn insights into impactful creative. Use data and insights to optimize creative while elevating emotional resonance and long-term equity.
• Identify and experiment with new formats, storytelling techniques, AI-powered workflows, and design systems that expand how the company shows up across touchpoints.
• Foster AI adoption within the team by integrating tools that improve speed, scalability, and creative innovation. Stay ahead of industry trends in brand design to evolve our creative impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional design experience spanning brand and growth marketing.
• Portfolio showcasing both brand-building work (campaigns, identity systems, storytelling) and growth-focused design (CRM, lifecycle, paid & organic social, A/B testing).
• Proven ability to execute Co-Marketing and performance ad campaigns (video templates, mid funnel/lower funnel assets) with high craft and fast turnaround.
• Experience art directing CGI or live-action productions with external production partners; comfort consulting on timing, pacing, and visual composition across complex multi-element scenes.
• Hands-on expertise creating impactful content across web, email, ads, presentations, and campaign assets.
• Ability to articulate and defend strategic design decisions to senior stakeholders. Experience translating complex business concepts into clear, compelling visuals.
• Strong collaboration skills; thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments. Proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (especially After Effects).
• Background in technology, media, or digital advertising is a plus. AI fluency—experience adopting AI into creative processes.

3-month contract, likely to extend to the end of the year

$ 80-90 hourly, W-2 DOE

Benefits offered