We are open to remote candidates based in the Americas 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:

• Lead the brand design process from concept to execution, setting the creative and strategic vision for brands.
• Develop inspiring, relevant, and scalable brand identities that strengthen digital products and businesses.
• Act as a trusted partner to clients and internal teams, educating them on brand best practices and guiding them through a rigorous but agile branding process.
• Work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Client Partners to ensure brand identity aligns seamlessly with product experiences.
• Advocate for brand thinking across the organization, increasing brand literacy within our teams and clients.
• Deliver polished, well-documented brand systems that serve as an enduring source of truth for internal and external teams.
• Push creative boundaries, exploring motion, 3D, and interactive elements to elevate brand experiences.
• Present, sell, and defend creative work to stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and alignment at every stage of the process.

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in brand design, marketing, or visual identity, with a portfolio showcasing brand identities that live in digital environments.
• Proven expertise in translating brand strategy into compelling visual identities, design systems, and marketing materials.
• Strong presentation skills—you can confidently articulate design rationale to large stakeholder groups.
• Experience working in collaborative, highly iterative environments, sharing work frequently and refining based on feedback.
• Proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and a deep understanding of brand documentation and systematization.
• A passion for storytelling and the ability to create narratives that drive brand engagement.
• Comfortable leading workshops, brand exercises, and sprints with both internal and external teams.
• A deep understanding of product design principles and how brand design integrates with digital experiences.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in motion, 3D, or interactive design to enhance brand expression.
• Strong writing skills—whether it’s creative copy, brand guidelines, or strategic positioning.

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.

What You’ll Do

Lead the Work

• Define the vision for brand design at Metalab—elevating our brand practice to new levels of creative excellence.
• Guide and mentor Brand Designers of all levels through all stages of the brand process—from insight to identity to expression.
• Partner with clients at a strategic level, helping founders and executives articulate, evolve, and scale their brands for digital-first environments.
• Oversee and refine brand systems that translate seamlessly into product experiences, marketing ecosystems, and motion design.
• Ensure every brand engagement—internal or client-facing—embodies clarity, consistency, and purpose.

Shape Creative Direction

• Drive the creative process for major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines.
• Collaborate with Product Design leadership to ensure cohesive brand-to-product experiences.
• Lead cross-disciplinary reviews, elevating critique culture and building team fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft.
• Push creative boundaries by integrating motion, 3D, and interaction design to create dynamic, immersive brand moments.

Champion Collaboration and Growth

• Partner closely with the Chief Design Officer and Partnerships team in new business pursuits—pitching visionary, brand-led design approaches.
• Collaborate with Marketing to ensure Metalab’s own brand maintains the highest standard of craft and cohesion across all expressions.
• Foster team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity, ensuring Metalab remains a place where designers grow and thrive.
• Build bridges across disciplines, connecting brand, product, and marketing to create holistic experiences.

Technical & Strategic Competencies

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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership—preferably in a digital-first environment.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution.
• A portfolio that demonstrates mastery in visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints.
• Experience presenting to executive stakeholders, with the ability to translate creative thinking into strategic outcomes.
• Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.) and an understanding of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills—you guide workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy.
• Deep knowledge of design trends, emerging tools, and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem.
• A passion for mentoring others and shaping the future of design culture at Metalab.

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.

What You'll Do

Lead by Example

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.

Drive Design Strategy & Execution

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.

Lead Organizational Impact

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.

What You Bring

• At least 12 years of experience in brand and product design, creative direction, or digital design leadership— in a digital-first environment—with at least 2 years leading design teams at a senior director or executive level.
• Must be able to maintain at least a 4-hour overlap with Pacific Time (PST) business hours (up to 12:00 PM PST).
• A visionary design leader who inspires creative excellence, communicates with clarity, and earns client trust—balancing creative risk-taking with strategic rigor to ensure every design direction is both aspirational and grounded in business value.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale product-led brand engagements from strategy through execution, with a portfolio that demonstrates mastery in visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints.
• Fluency in modern design tools and emerging AI tooling and a deep understanding of how product-led brands extend through motion, interaction, and content—able to concept, design, and refine at a world-class level.
• The ability to translate complex ideas into coherent, scalable brand and product design systems—visual, verbal, experiential, technical—and direct others to execute across environments, from pixels to motion to storytelling to code.
• Experience presenting to and influencing executive stakeholders, with the ability to build buy-in through strong narratives, strategic storytelling, and meaningful business context.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, marketing, and executive teams—bringing a systems mindset to connecting the dots across every touchpoint.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the confidence and empathy to guide workshops, strategic sessions, and cross-disciplinary critique.
• Deep knowledge of design trends and the evolving role of brand, product and experience design in the digital ecosystem.
• A track record of elevating design communities through mentorship, constructive critique, and a commitment to inclusive practices and building equitable, diverse teams.
• Active engagement in the design community through thought leadership, writing, events, or speaking.
• A passion for mentoring others and shaping the future of design culture at Metalab.

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.

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

• Guide the design process throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Drive client presentations and discussions of your team’s work
• Respectfully decline the status quo and push both clients and colleagues outside their comfort zones
• Foster positive client relationships and directly influence client stakeholders
• Work with Product Managers and Client Partners to scope project requirements 
• Help promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team
• Coach and mentor Product Designers to determine and work towards desired career growth paths, sharing tailored feedback and guidance, and monitoring overall fulfillment and happiness
• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation
• Promote a culture of autonomy balanced with proven ways of working

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience at a digital product agency or consultancy, ideally in a Lead role
• Demonstrated mastery of UI/UX principles, best practices, and common design tools (read: Figma)
• Adequate level of interaction design skills to guide the work (think After Effects, Principle, Framer, Origami)
• A portfolio that reflects your strengths in UX and visual design
• A natural inclination to take the lead and help everyone arrive at a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of the work
• Fluent in translating stakeholder goals, user research, and complex user flows into simple UIs
• Passionate about staying ahead of desktop and mobile best practices, developments, and trends in web, mobile, and iOS design
• Communication pro, with the ability to deliver compelling design rationales in both client and internal contexts
• Comfortable with ambiguity and client briefs that lead to more questions than answers
• Motivated by feedback, and by the opportunity to improve in your role, in the work, and in how you work together as a team

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

• You'll work across many aspects of the design process. Our Principals are true multidisciplinary designers and craftspeople, bridging experience, visual, and motion design to create exceptional digital products.
• Set the bar for quality on your projects. Typically you’ll be the only principal designer on a project, so you’ll be identifying opportunities to elevate the work and the team around you, often pushing clients and colleagues outside of their comfort zones to deliver exceptional products.
• Support other designers of all levels in the work and help to promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team.
• Work closely with our brand team to ensure that the brand principles are translated into the products we design.
• Collaborate with design specialists. 
• Participate with research and strategy to generate and evaluate design opportunities, and test solutions through storyboards and prototypes.
• Collaborate directly with and present to key client team members.
• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation.
• If desired, you have the opportunity to coach and mentor other designers.
• Share your knowledge and approach to the craft with the broader design team at Metalab and the wider industry.

Requirements

• Experience working in collaborative, highly iterative, cross-functional teams, sharing work daily.
• Proven experience across UX, UI, and Motion design at a senior level, with a portfolio that showcases your range, typically T-shaped with your core discipline being UI and Motion design.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, enabling effective critique and design discussions, with a demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and strategy effectively.
• A track record of working across the product development cycle, from initial vision and discovery through to detailed design execution.

Nice to haves

• 3D skills are a bonus

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:

• Lead the brand design process from concept to execution, setting the creative and strategic vision for brands.
• Develop inspiring, relevant, and scalable brand identities that strengthen digital products and businesses.
• Act as a trusted partner to clients and internal teams, educating them on brand best practices and guiding them through a rigorous but agile branding process.
• Work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Client Partners to ensure brand identity aligns seamlessly with product experiences.
• Advocate for brand thinking across the organization, increasing brand literacy within our teams and clients.
• Deliver polished, well-documented brand systems that serve as an enduring source of truth for internal and external teams.
• Push creative boundaries, exploring motion, 3D, and interactive elements to elevate brand experiences.
• Present, sell, and defend creative work to stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and alignment at every stage of the process.

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in brand design, marketing, or visual identity, with a portfolio showcasing brand identities that live in digital environments.
• Proven expertise in translating brand strategy into compelling visual identities, design systems, and marketing materials.
• Strong presentation skills—you can confidently articulate design rationale to large stakeholder groups.
• Experience working in collaborative, highly iterative environments, sharing work frequently and refining based on feedback.
• Proficiency in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and a deep understanding of brand documentation and systematization.
• A passion for storytelling and the ability to create narratives that drive brand engagement.
• Comfortable leading workshops, brand exercises, and sprints with both internal and external teams.
• A deep understanding of product design principles and how brand design integrates with digital experiences.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in motion, 3D, or interactive design to enhance brand expression.
• Strong writing skills—whether it’s creative copy, brand guidelines, or strategic positioning.