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Senior Brand Designer, Design System
Brand
Design

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Brainly is the world's largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers. At brainly.com, and its group of websites around the world, students connect to both receive and offer help with homework problems and questions. The unique opportunity for students to freely ask questions and gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspires students to learn in a collaborative community that receives more than 350 million users each month.

Based in Kraków, Poland, with its US headquarters in New York City, Brainly is currently available in 35 countries. The total funding from current investors, including Naspers, General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital, Runa Capital and Learn Capital equals $150M. More information about Brainly is available on www.brainly.com.

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About the role

Are you a brand designer focused not only on delivering top-notch design but also on brand strategy? If yes, this offer might interest you!

As a Sr. Brand Designer at Brainly, you will be responsible for the overall brand governance - the implementation of the brand why, our core values, identity, and design guidelines in an agile way to remain true to the brand while adapting to a rapidly evolving environment.

You will be complementing and reinforcing the existing reputation of our brand, to attract new customers while making existing customers and partners feel at home. An important part of your job will be proactively evangelizing our brand strategy, personality, and visual identity across teams. You will review and consult outward- and inward-facing materials from TV advertising to product solutions to give brand perspective depending on the audience and importance of given brand expression.  

In this role, you will collaborate closely with stakeholders from various departments including but not limited to Design, Communication & PR, Product, and Marketing as well as our external partners. You will be owning our Design System Brand Guidelines and co-create Design System which we understand as a living and breathing organism with a brand area in the heart of it, but we also have specialists from Product, Marketing, Motion and UI Engineering on board so we can guarantee the unique experience of working on shared brand and visual language.

At Brainly we are working on some of the most complex technical challenges in the ed-tech space and creating the product for over 350 million students around the world. We focus on building the infrastructure and features that enable Brainly users to ask and answer millions of questions every day.

AS A SENIOR BRAND DESIGNER AT BRAINLY YOU WILL:

  • Identify and provide the right tools and brand guidance to the multiple groups within our organization, taking into consideration the impact on the brand expression
  • Provide multi-media design expertise to manage the way the brand is expressed within internal and external communications including templates and assets (from product solutions, TV advertising, videos, marketing landing pages, print to social media)
  • Partner with multiple stakeholders within Design, Communication & PR, Product, and Marketing departments and their teams to develop our brand agile way in the complex ecosystem
  • Oversee the development of all the brand multi-media design guidelines for both external and internal facing use, to define and articulate how our brand evolves
  • Own Design System Brand space and constantly look for ways to improve its impact, representation, attractiveness, and accessibility

YOU ARE A GOOD FIT IF YOU HAVE:

Experience

Required:

  • 6+ years of professional experience as a Brand Designer
  • Experience working with a brand strategy
  • Experience working with or creating a design language for brands that can be adapted to any format, device, or platform, creating a consistent brand experience

Preferred:

  • Experience with creating a brand strategy
  • Experience in Design Systems
  • Academic degree in the field of design

Attributes

Required:

  • Great communication and storytelling skills
  • Ability to write clear brand guidelines and documentation
  • Strong in the system and strategic thinking
  • Keenness to continuously learn and improve to maintain the highest standard of work
  • Ability to share knowledge through workshops and presentations
  • Team player attitude
  • Ability to work on complex cross-area tasks
  • Ability to take ownership of cross-area (cross-team) design problems

Preferred:

  • An ability to come up with winning concepts and test propositions from scratch

Skills & systems

Required:

  • Knowledge about modern brand governance best practices  
  • A strong portfolio focused on brand design for digital and traditional media with an emphasis on the former including UI design
  • Exceptional design & layout skills, great eye for composition, color, typography and detail-oriented
  • Great understanding of visual harmony, information hierarchy, and design patterns
  • Great technical understanding of how to build systems and patterns
  • Expert-level knowledge of Adobe CC & Sketch or Figma
  • Fluency in English (in speaking and writing)

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DESIGN TEAM AT BRAINLY?

  • Check out our Dribbble and Medium resources to discover what we are up to recently
  • Visit our Instagram to meet your future team
  • Also feel free to look at our Design System called "Pencil", that we are especially proud of!
  • Watch the below video to discover how our Design System Manager, Patrycja, explains the process of building a Design System at Brainly:

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

Salary: 15 000 - 20 000 PLN gross monthly (employment contract)

Some of our benefits (varies slightly depending on the location):

  • Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely
  • Personal development budget 800$ per year +  unlimited time off policy for participation in conferences and workshops and access to an online learning platform with courses from Udemy, Harvard Manage Mentor and many others
  • Fully paid private health care packages for you and your family (dental care included) provided by Luxmed
  • Fully paid life insurance provided by Warta
  • Multisport Plus card
  • Access to the Mental health Helpline - providing virtual support of external psychologists, psychotherapists, and coaches
  • AskHenry services - personal concierge services to help you to settle your everyday matters (like Ikea shopping or shoemaker visit)
  • Possibility to join one of our Employee Resource Groups and initiatives (Inclusion Council, Ladies at Brainly, Brainly Cares)
  • If needed, additional budget for work remote work accessories

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