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At Metalab, we design some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch, and leaders at global enterprises hire us to help launch new products.
As a Principal Brand Designer, you will set the creative vision for brands, driving excellence in brand identity, marketing, and storytelling. You’ll guide clients and internal teams through the brand design process, ensuring our work is both visually stunning and strategically impactful. You’ll play a key role in shaping how Metalab and our clients' brands come to life across digital experiences, bringing a systems-thinking approach to branding that integrates seamlessly with product design.
You’ll act as a brand leader, advocating for design excellence while collaborating across disciplines to build brands that don’t just look great—they enhance user experiences and drive business impact.
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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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We are open to candidates based in EST.
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.
Visionary Brand Leadership
You 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 Expertise
You 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 Storytelling
You 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 Collaboration
You 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 & Critique
You 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.
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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Our leadership team primarily collaborates during PST business hours, while we also have designers in Europe. This role is ideally based in EST to ensure overlap across our time zones. Candidates comfortable working on an EST schedule are encouraged to apply.
Companies ready to change the world come to Metalab to create products that improve lives, reshape markets, and shift culture.
As Executive Design Director, you'll shape the future of creative at the intersection of brand, experience and product at Metalab. You'll define what craft excellence looks like across the organization, lead with strategic vision, and ensure brand and product design remain a driving force in our work, culture, and growth. You'll coach and elevate other leaders, steward our approach to craft, and guide both clients and internal teams through high-impact, high-visibility brand and product design engagements—while also contributing hands-on at a world-class level.
You are a systems thinker, equally brand and product minded, a strategic storyteller, and a trusted voice across disciplines. You bring deep expertise in product design, brand strategy & identity, experiential design, and organizational leadership. You know how to connect these dots to influence outcomes at scale.
At Metalab, this level of leadership isn’t just about oversight—it’s about leading by doing. You will balance leadership responsibilities with active participation in client work, collaborating with teams to set the bar for craft, execution, and strategic thinking within wider Design Leadership. By staying engaged in real projects, you’ll stay relevant in your craft, model best practices, and deliver the innovative, high-quality design work Metalab is known for.
Define and evolve Metalab's product and brand design vision to ensure alignment across teams and client work. Coach senior design leaders and project teams, providing clear, actionable feedback and long-term career guidance. Model creative excellence in your own work—jumping in hands-on when needed and sharing your thinking openly. You don't just direct great design; you do it. As one of the most senior contributors to the work, you bring hands-on design energy to pitches, reviews, and live work, ensuring every output reflects the highest creative standards.
Own design quality across the department, offering constructive and actionable feedback to uphold and uplevel creative standards. Guide strategic direction across brand and product design engagements ensuring client and business outcomes are met at every stage. Oversee, create and refine brand systems that work seamlessly into product experiences and vice versa. Push creative boundaries by integrating motion, 3D, and interaction design to create dynamic, immersive brand moments in the context of products. Lead cross-disciplinary reviews, elevating critique culture and building team fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft. Partner with clients at a strategic level, helping founders and executives articulate, evolve, and scale their brands for digital-first environments.
Collaborate with design leadership—including the Chief Design Officer—to influence design department direction and design operations. Partner with the Partnerships team on new business pursuits and pitch visionary design approaches. Coordinate team availability/downtime to drive showcases of our best assets to drive marketing efforts. Collaborate with design leadership to shape internal systems for hiring, feedback, and growth within the brand and product design discipline. Represent Metalab in the design community through thought leadership and speaking opportunities. Lead accounts by championing quality of work and client relationships that organically grow the business.
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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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.
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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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We are open to candidates based in the Americas.
We believe magic happens when thoughtful collaboration and unparalleled expertise come together to turn great ideas into great products. Design Leads at Metalab play a direct role in that magic. They steer projects in the right direction by leading the day-to-day work internally and managing clients' expectations, while also getting into the files themselves. It’s about high-quality output and outcomes.
As a Design Lead, you’ll have a vested interest in helping other designers find their groove. Given that our primary focus is product design, a deep understanding of what it takes to get digital products out the door is our first non-negotiable. Beyond that, you’ve established yourself as someone people look up to, and you don’t take that privilege lightly. You’ll still deal in pixels, but you’ll also play an integral role in a project’s success with clear direction, leadership, guidance, and encouragement. You believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, and you actively support your team in making sure everyone is heard.
What you’ll do
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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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We are open to remote candidates.
Metalab creates products loved by billions around the world, shaping how we work, live, and play. You've likely interacted with many of the products we've helped bring to life. Now, we need your expertise to craft the future.
As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll lead fully within the work, constantly seeking opportunities to elevate design quality and expand the skillsets of those around you. Joining a team of the most senior design practitioners at Metalab, you’ll be expected to operate across multiple creative disciplines, delivering exceptional work on the most challenging projects. Often, you’ll lead in defining the product experience, translating the intention of the product strategy and the character and emotion of the brand into thoughtful, useful, and lovable products.
What you’ll do
Requirements
Nice to haves
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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We are open to remote candidates located within PST to BRT time zones.
At Metalab, we design some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch, and leaders at global enterprises hire us to help launch new products.
As a Principal Brand Designer, you will set the creative vision for brands, driving excellence in brand identity, marketing, and storytelling. You’ll guide clients and internal teams through the brand design process, ensuring our work is both visually stunning and strategically impactful. You’ll play a key role in shaping how Metalab and our clients' brands come to life across digital experiences, bringing a systems-thinking approach to branding that integrates seamlessly with product design.
You’ll act as a brand leader, advocating for design excellence while collaborating across disciplines to build brands that don’t just look great—they enhance user experiences and drive business impact.
What you’ll do:
What we’re looking for:
Nice-to-haves:
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Metalab
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