Senior Brand Design Manager
Relay
Design
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.
Relay is entering an exciting new chapter of growth. We’re looking for a Senior Brand Design Manager to help us scale our brand and Marketing engine. This is a unique opportunity to own and evolve Relay’s visual brand storytelling to accelerate our growth with U.S. small businesses and this role will report directly to our Director of Brand.
Joining Relay, means an opportunity to make a huge impact building solutions with the potential to reach 29 million small businesses across the U.S. If you thrive on growth and solving real customer problems, we want to hear from you! Please note that we are a hybrid environment and choose to collaborate in the office twice a week.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own and evolve Relay’s visual brand across while ensuring all visual assets align to our brand with a high caliber of quality
- Create and lead the design strategy of all assets across marketing with a focus on scaling Relay’s brand
- Measure the impact of Relay’s brand designs in the market and understand how the assets (landing pages, emails, etc.) deliver business growth
- Work as an integrated leader within the marketing team, collaborating closely with Content, Community, Growth and Events team members to ensure campaigns and deliverables get to market
- Build, grow and lead a team of full time and freelance designers to unlock scale for brand design
- Develop a process playbook for and manage the design pipeline of multiple, concurrent projects to meet deadlines and drive elevated, on-brand results for the marketing team
- Manage the design function to deliver a wide variety of visual assets, from campaign creative direction, web pages, blog images, video direction, ads to print collateral, sales enablement PDFs, collateral and booth design for trade shows, and beyond
- Proactively communicate work progress, risks, blockers and performance of Brand Design function to other functional leaders
- Lead tactical and strategic collaborations with Sales, People, and Product teams by providing design vision, feedback and visual asset support as needed
- Deeply learn our customer and market to evolve Relay’s visual storytelling to deliver on customer needs and business goals
Who You Are:
- You have 7+ years of design experience across a wide variety of formats
- You have a deep skill set in visual storytelling, creative conceptualization, and design execution with an inspiring portfolio that backs up your ability to drive brand design impact in market, manage teams and deliver results
- You are a natural team leader who has managed direct reports and/or freelancers across multiple projects to meet deadlines and deliver high quality work
- You are impact-oriented, you care deeply about impacting the growth of Relay’s business through our marketing funnel as much as you love designing beautiful things
- You consider yourself a resident expert in one of the major design platform (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign)
- You take pride in your ability to research the customers you’re designing for and understand their pain points, and operations to bring that into your design strategy
- You are a builder, problem-solver and cross-functional partner who is energized by making quality work happen in a fast-paced, scrappy environment
- You are collaborative and seek out and appreciate feedback on design work, and thrive in team based environments
- You are incredibly organized and have the proven experience to manage teams through multiple concurrent deadlines at once
Bonus Points:
- You have skills in editorial design, illustration or front-end web development
- You have a demonstrated ability to lead teams that contribute to growth outcomes through design work
- You have experience working at a startup or high-growth environment
Our Commitment To You:
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary.
- Comprehensive health benefits: enjoy full health benefits from day one. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Flexible vacation and time off: every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays so you can take time off to recharge and come back better for our customers.
- Parental leave with top-up: we offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive.
- Hybrid work environment: we value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office twice a week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
- Dog-friendly space: can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
- Personal and professional growth: through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success.
- Top-tier equipment: as a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
- Social connection: we believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
We’re driving real change for small business owners, powered by truly remarkable people. At Relay, you’ll find the confidence to take changes, trust to take initiative, and the support you need to build a career you love. Here, we make sure every team member feels empowered to make big decisions, encourage to ask tough questions, and challenged to take risks that result in work we’re all proud of. We give you the baton–you run the Relay.
The Interview Process:
- Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with a member of the People Team
- Stage 2: A 45-minute Google Meets video call with the Director of Brand
- Stage 3: A take-home design-focused case study + writing sample, followed by a 1-hour presentation of your solution to our Marketing team
- Stage 4: A 30-min Google Meets video call with a member of Relay’s Leadership team
Research shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. If you don't have all the listed qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway, and together we'll figure out if this is the best role for you!
What’s Important to Us:
At Relay, we believe that diversity is key to building high-performing teams, and creating an inclusive work environment is our priority. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
We will work with applicants to provide accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please email your People Team contact, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
