Senior Brand Designer

As a Senior Brand Designer at Marqeta, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing engaging, performance-driven work as part of the Content and Creative team. You will be responsible for ideation, exploration, and implementation of visuals across mediums and channels with an eye toward continual up-leveling of our campaigns and the Marqeta brand.  Beyond the ability to create beautiful work, you are an ambitious, detail-oriented designer with a passion for process, comfortability with feedback and iteration, and strong foundation in the fundamentals.  You anchor your design work in solving the business problem at hand and you know the value of a thoughtful design system.  

We are a small-but-mighty team, so excellent communication, organization, proactivity, and follow-through are key.  We are highly collaborative and we count on each other for the collaboration that makes our work better (and more fun!).

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remote within the United States or from our Oakland, CA or New York City offices. We’d love for you to join us!

NOTE: if you are based within 35 miles of our Oakland, California, New York City (Midtown) or London office, you will be expected to be in-office 2 days / week. The Talent team will share more details if selected for the Recruiter Interview.

• Creating visual systems that tell clear stories, and leave an impression on our audiences and Marqeta’s visual brand. 
• Producing end to end creative for campaigns, across various channels and brand surfaces.
• Building wireframes and create visuals for responsive web experiences that drive conversion 
• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic approach and   design effective, compelling presentations 
• Help scale our design impact by implementing design systems, leveraging automation tools. building effective templates, collaborating with our data and insights teams to test and optimize our work,  and evolving/adjusting our processes for an increasingly efficient workflow.

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years experience in brand design, in house or agency
• Portfolio of work that demonstrates excellent design across a range of channels/surfaces and strong process
• You are skilled in Figma (collaborative use of features including building and using brand libraries, variables and components), Adobe Creative Suite (3D and motion preferred), and Google Docs.
• Your design principles and fundamentals are excellent: layout, hierarchy, balance, typography, color theory
• You have pixel-perfect attention to detail.  Uneven margins bug you!
• You “show your work” through process and iteration, demonstrated in portfolio
• You take a generous approach to collaboration: giving and receiving feedback freely and openly in design crits with a kind, constructive mindset  
• You are flexible and adaptable to create great work in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• You manage your calendar and work flow effectively to maximize your productivity
• You have a spirit of curiosity and a drive to seek new ground.  You desire to learn new things to address skills gaps on the team and drive your personal and career growth

• Motion design capabilities 
• 3D capabilities 
• Web UX design experience
• B2B and in house experience preferred 
• Experience using AI to optimize design process and production

• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• Offer!

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.  This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.

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