Lead Brand Designer (Web)
Checkr
- San Francisco, United States
- Lead/Staff
- 7+ years
- Posted
Skills
Required
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- AI-assisted
- information architecture
- usability
- accessibility
- HTML / CSS
Preferred
- photography / art direction
- typography
Join Checkr as a Lead Brand Designer, Web. In this role, you will shape the Checkr brand experience across all marketing surfaces, own and evolve brand standards, and partner cross-functionally with Marketing and Revenue. You will also provide creative direction and feedback to other designers, present and advocate for design decisions, and run ongoing user testing to evolve the web experience. The position offers a range of benefits, including parental leave, stock options, work from home opportunities, comprehensive health plans, competitive compensation, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design brand-forward web experiences that are polished, on-brand, and grounded in customer and business outcomes, across all marketing surfaces.
- Own and evolve brand standards, guidelines, and design systems for web, and scope design initiatives across multiple concurrent projects.
- Partner cross-functionally with Marketing and Revenue to maintain brand consistency across all web touchpoints, and provide creative direction and feedback to other designers.
- An outstanding portfolio demonstrating mastery of typography, layout, storytelling, and art direction
Requirements
- Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, plus experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate production
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Deep knowledge of information architecture, usability, accessibility, and UI/UX best practices
- Track record managing multiple concurrent projects in fast-moving, iterative environments where the brief isn't always perfect
- Experience developing brand standards and directing contractor or freelance creative work
- 7+ years of in-house or agency experience on tech or B2B brands
- A systems-minded approach to building templates and reusable assets other teams can rely on
- A strong point of view and high craft standards, with the confidence to present and defend your work to senior leadership
- Front-end fluency (HTML/CSS), enough to prototype or QA your own work in-browser
- Experience in HR tech, trust and safety, or identity verification products
Preferred
- Illustration, photography, or art direction experience
- Experience mentoring or giving creative direction to other designers
Pay
USD 167,000 - 196,000
