Job Description
We are open to remote candidates located within PST to GMT time zones.
At Metalab, we design some of the world’s most beloved digital products. From zero-to-one startups to global enterprises, we help teams invent categories, launch bold ideas, and build products people love.
Now, we’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer own the direction of our visual brand and to help us tell those stories.
This is not a traditional marketing design role. It’s a narrative-driven brand design position embedded within our marketing team. Your job is to translate product thinking, design craft, and strategic impact into visual stories that earn attention and drive new business.
You’ll own and evolve how Metalab shows up in the world. From case studies and launch moments to showreels, landing pages, campaigns, and social storytelling, you’ll craft the visual narratives that showcase our work at the level it deserves.
You are a designer who believes great storytelling is design. You sweat the details, understand product deeply, and you know how to turn complex flows, systems, and strategy into clear, compelling, emotionally resonant stories.
This role reports directly to Marketing and works closely with Brand, Product Design, Client Partners, and Leadership. You’ll be deeply connected to the wider design team, with opportunities for mentorship and continued growth.
Why This Role Matters
Metalab has shaped products worth billions. But great work only creates opportunity when it’s told well.
This role ensures our story is told with the same level of intention, craft, and ambition as the products we design.
If you care about narrative. If you believe design is what makes products unforgettable. If you want to shape how one of the industry’s most respected product design studios shows up in the world, we’d love to talk.
What You’ll Do
- Own the creative strategy and visual direction for all Metalab marketing initiatives.
- Translate complex product work into compelling, story-driven visual narratives.
- Craft high-impact case studies, landing pages, showreels, campaign assets, social content, and thought leadership visuals.
- Evolve and safeguard the Metalab brand across every public touchpoint.
- Collaborate with product designers and client teams to extract the strongest stories from our work.
- Guide motion direction and interaction storytelling across web and video.
- Ensure everything we put into the world reflects the quality, craft, and ambition of our client work.
- Experiment with emerging tools and formats, including AI-assisted workflows, to push our storytelling forward.
- Raise the creative bar internally and contribute to the broader design culture at Metalab.
Who You Are
- A narrative thinker. You see structure, pacing, and emotional arcs in design.
- A brand or graphic designer with strong digital / product literacy. You understand UX, systems, motion design and what it takes to ship digital products.
- Obsessed with craft and quality. You notice what others miss.
- Comfortable owning creative direction while collaborating cross-functionally.
- Confident presenting and defending design decisions to internal stakeholders and leadership.
- Energized by feedback and iteration.
- Curious about new tools, formats, and technologies, including AI.
Must-Haves
- 5+ years of experience in brand, visual, graphic, or digital design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong visual design work and narrative-driven storytelling.
- Experience designing marketing websites, case studies, social assets, or campaign work for digital products or services.
- Mastery of Figma and fluency in the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Strong motion and interaction sensibilities. Experience with tools like After Effects, Lottie, Rive, Blender, or similar tools is an asset.
- Experience building scalable brand systems that extend across product and marketing.
- Ability to translate strategic thinking into clear, compelling visual systems.
- Strong presentation skills, both written and verbal.
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience working at a product design agency or in a high-growth startup.
- Motion, 3D, or experimental digital storytelling skills.
- Comfort writing or shaping strategic and creative copy.
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.
