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Director, Brand Design
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
A senior Brand Director role at Parallel, leading brand design vision, creative direction, and strategy across digital and physical touchpoints while mentoring brand designers and partnering with clients.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Define the vision for brand design at Parallel and raise the brand practice to a new level of creative excellence
- Guide and mentor brand designers at every level, from insight to identity to expression
- Partner with clients strategically, helping founders and executives shape, evolve, and scale their brands for a digital-first world
- Build and refine brand systems that carry cleanly into product experiences, marketing, and motion
- Make sure every engagement holds clarity, consistency, and purpose
- Drive the creative process on major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines
- Work closely with product design leadership so brand and product feel like one coherent experience
- Lead cross-disciplinary critique, lifting the team's fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft
- Push creative boundaries with motion, 3D, and interaction to create brand moments that feel alive
- Partner with design leadership and help win new work by pitching bold, brand-led approaches
- Keep Parallel's own brand at the highest bar of craft and cohesion
- Build a team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity
- Connect brand, product, and marketing so the experience holds together end to end
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership, ideally in a digital-first environment
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution
- A portfolio that shows mastery of visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints
- Experience presenting to executive stakeholders and turning creative thinking into strategic outcomes
- Fluency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects) and a real grasp of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content
- Comfort with emerging tools, including everyday use of AI in your craft
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, guiding workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy
- Deep knowledge of design trends and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem
- A passion for mentoring and shaping design culture
- Visionary brand leadership: inspire creative excellence, communicate a clear and compelling brand vision, and earn client trust
- Hands-on craft: lead by example with exceptional craft and detail
- Brand systems expertise: turn complex ideas into coherent, scalable systems across visual, verbal, and experiential
- Strategic storytelling: see brand as narrative and guide teams and clients to articulate what makes their brand meaningful and distinct
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration: move fluidly across product, strategy, and marketing with a systems mindset
- Mentorship and critique: raise the people around you through coaching, high standards, and honest, constructive feedback
How to get hired
- 1A couple of conversations with the team
- 2A small, paid real-world project
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About Parallel
Key facts
- Reputation for design
What they value
- Openness
- Mentorship
- Curiosity