Brand Director
我们开放于以东部地区的候选人。在 Metalab,设计是我们所做的一切核心。作为品牌总监，你将带领视觉，工艺和战略洞察力塑造品牌如何跨越数字和经验接触点。基于 Metalab 的设计卓越遗产，你将倡导与用户有意义联系，推动业务影响并推进数字时代中品牌意味着什么的界限。作为总监，你将融合思想领导与实践指导。你将培养一个环境，让团队能够获得灵感来创造出最佳作品，确保我们所触摸的每一种品牌都体现了清晰度，创意和工艺。What You'll Do Lead the Work · Define the vision for brand design at Metalab 升级我们的品牌实践到新的水平。·指导和辅导所有层次的品牌设计师在品牌过程的所有阶段中从见解到身份到表达。·与客户合作于战略层面，帮助创始人和高管阐述，发展和扩展他们的品牌以实现数字化第一环境。·监督和完善品牌系统，这些系统将无地转化为产品体验，营销生态系统和运动设计。·确保每一个品牌的内部或面向客户的参与都具有清晰度，一致性和目的。塑造创意方向。·推动主要品牌倡议的创造过程，为身份体系，讲故事框架和品牌指导方针设置语调。·与产品设计领导层合作以确保连贯的品牌到产品体驗。·引领跨学科评价，提高批评文化并建立团队在叙述，思维系统和手工艺方面的流利能力。·通过集成运动，3D 和互动设计来推进创造界限，以创建充满活力的品牌时刻。成为合作与增长的冠军。•在新的业务活动中与首席设计官和伙伴团队密切合作。· 与营销合作，确保 Metalab 自己的品牌保持最高标准的工艺和凝聚力。·培养基于开放性，指导和好奇心的团队文化，确保 Metalab 仍然是设计师生长和繁荣的地方。·跨学科建立桥梁，连接品牌，产品和营销以创造全面体验。
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At Metalab, design is at the heart of everything we do. As the Brand Director, you’ll lead with vision, craft, and strategic insight—shaping how brands come to life across digital and experiential touchpoints. Building on Metalab’s legacy of design excellence, you’ll champion the creative direction and strategic development of brand experiences that connect meaningfully with users, drive business impact, and push the boundaries of what brand can mean in the digital era.
As a director, you’ll blend thought leadership with hands-on mentorship. You’ll cultivate an environment where teams are inspired to create their best work, ensuring every brand we touch embodies clarity, creativity, and craft.
What You’ll Do
Lead the Work
- Define the vision for brand design at Metalab—elevating our brand practice to new levels of creative excellence.
- Guide and mentor Brand Designers of all levels through all stages of the brand process—from insight to identity to expression.
- Partner with clients at a strategic level, helping founders and executives articulate, evolve, and scale their brands for digital-first environments.
- Oversee and refine brand systems that translate seamlessly into product experiences, marketing ecosystems, and motion design.
- Ensure every brand engagement—internal or client-facing—embodies clarity, consistency, and purpose.
Shape Creative Direction
- Drive the creative process for major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines.
- Collaborate with Product Design leadership to ensure cohesive brand-to-product experiences.
- Lead cross-disciplinary reviews, elevating critique culture and building team fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft.
- Push creative boundaries by integrating motion, 3D, and interaction design to create dynamic, immersive brand moments.
Champion Collaboration and Growth
- Partner closely with the Chief Design Officer and Partnerships team in new business pursuits—pitching visionary, brand-led design approaches.
- Collaborate with Marketing to ensure Metalab’s own brand maintains the highest standard of craft and cohesion across all expressions.
- Foster team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity, ensuring Metalab remains a place where designers grow and thrive.
- Build bridges across disciplines, connecting brand, product, and marketing to create holistic experiences.
Technical & Strategic Competencies
Visionary Brand LeadershipYou inspire creative excellence, lead with clarity, and communicate a compelling brand vision that motivates teams and earns client trust. You’re adept at balancing creative risk-taking with strategic rigor—ensuring every brand direction is both aspirational and grounded in business value.
Hands on Design Craft You don’t just direct great design; you do it. As one of the most senior contributors in the work, you lead by example with exceptional craft and attention to detail. You’re fluent in modern tools and practices, able to concept, design, and refine at a world-class level. You bring hands-on design energy to pitches, reviews, and live work, ensuring every output reflects the highest creative standards.
Brand Systems ExpertiseYou translate complex ideas into coherent, scalable brand systems—visual, verbal, and experiential. You understand how identity lives across environments, from pixels to motion to storytelling, and can direct others to execute at this level.
Strategic StorytellingYou see brand as narrative—how story, identity, and experience intersect. You guide teams and clients through this lens, helping them articulate what makes their brand meaningful and distinctive.
Cross-Disciplinary CollaborationYou work fluidly across product design, strategy, and marketing, ensuring brand vision permeates all layers of experience. You bring a systems mindset to brand-building, connecting the dots across every touchpoint.
Mentorship & CritiqueYou elevate the design community within Metalab by coaching, inspiring, and setting standards for exceptional creative work. You foster a culture of constructive critique and shared learning.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership—preferably in a digital-first environment.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution.
- A portfolio that demonstrates mastery in visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints.
- Experience presenting to executive stakeholders, with the ability to translate creative thinking into strategic outcomes.
- Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.) and an understanding of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills—you guide workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy.
- Deep knowledge of design trends, emerging tools, and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem.
- A passion for mentoring others and shaping the future of design culture at Metalab.
Equal opportunity employer
Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyways! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life. We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.
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