Brand Director

Brand Director

We are open to remote candidates.

At Metalab, design is at the heart of everything we do. As the Brand Director, you'll lead with vision, craft, and strategic insightshaping 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 Metalabelevating our brand practice to new levels of creative excellence.
• Guide and mentor Brand Designers of all levels through all stages of the brand processfrom 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 engagementinternal or client-facingembodies clarity, consistency, and purpose.

Shape Creative Direction

Champion Collaboration and Growth

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 rigorensuring 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 systemsvisual, 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 narrativehow 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

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.