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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 10+ years…