Brand Designer

Company Description

Club Kuma is a creative studio that partners with clients and creators to brand, design, and manufacture award-winning hero products. Built on a heritage of creativity and innovation, we are one team, in-house. By delivering elevated design and unparalleled service, we set the trend. Then set it again.

With headquarters in sunny Santa Monica and a creative workplace culture, Club Kuma is designed to have fun. We’re committed to building lasting partnerships with all our collaborators, from the creators who inspire our products and brands, to the people we hire to make them. You’ll find competitive salaries and benefits with every full-time position, because our team believes in rewarding a job well done.

Job Description

We are looking for detail-oriented, well-versed Brand Designer, who is passionate about lifestyle consumer products, beauty, apparel, etc. and wants to be part of an exciting start-up, we want to talk to you! As a Brand Designer, you are thoughtful, creative, and a masterful storyteller by crafting comprehensive visual brands, and identities. You’ll work within the creative studio and closely with the strategy team to solve both internal and external challenges. You will be responsible for creating branding assets such as a brand identity and style guides, type systems, iconography, patterns, packaging and more. You’ll also assist in finalizing those assets based on creative direction. This is an on-site position.

What you’ll do:

● Consult with leadership, as well as other team members, to achieve client and studio objectives.

● Work as a team member to comprehensively execute brand deliverables such as identity, logomarks/logotypes, iconography, color palettes, patterns, packaging, and social templates.

● Create beautiful design systems that make a positive impact.

● Envision and execute a brand visual system in a holistic way.

● Understand timelines and meet established schedules, timeframes, and deliverables set to be delivered to clients.

● Maintain the highest standards for all deliverables.

● Build robust visual libraries within Adobe Creative Suite for internal and external stakeholders.

● Work on branding projects, from brainstorming and initial concepts through final production.

● Create comprehensive brand identity style guides and presentations.

● Meet deadlines and take initiative with project management.

● Hold meetings with relevant stakeholders (finance, management, marketing, design, etc.) for appropriate deliverables.

● Be culturally connected by understanding new waves and trends.

● Actively contribute to the development of the studio culture and standards of quality.

● Always create an environment that is collaborative, dependable, insightful, innovative, memorable, passionate, agile, driven, diverse, analytical, and deliberate.

● Once settled into the position, encouraged to bring new processes and improvement ideas to the table.

● Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

● Prefer a bachelor's degree or higher in Graphic Design or a similar field.

● 5-10 years of work experience in design, agency, or a related field.

● Must be able to show a portfolio of work that reflects creative thinking with a broad range of examples.

● Experience with creating comprehensive brand deliverables such as identity, style guides, iconography, etc.

● Proficient/Expert in Adobe Suite.

● Collaborative and ego-free personality, with enthusiasm for working with and receiving feedback from our team of designers, marketers, and brand managers.

● Ability to receive direction as well as take initiative.

● Succinct ability to articulate and explain design decisions to teammates and clients.

● Experience with visual design mockups.

● Have an in-depth technical knowledge of product development as it relates to graphic design (such as printing, web, and mobile app development, etc)

● Excellent at creating and maintaining cross-functional working relationships.

● Exceptional visual and oral communication skills.

● Must be self-motivated and able to manage multiple parallel-path projects.

● Demonstrated ability to deliver successful designs under tight timing constraints and provide examples of such scenarios throughout career.

● Bonus tool-kit: Experience in animation, coding, and/or interaction design is a bonus

Additional Information

This is a full-time position in our beautiful offices in Santa Monica, CA.  We offer a great package including PTO, benefits, 401K, and holidays. Compensation $85,000 - $100,000 plus  depending on experience.