Senior Designer, Brand & Marketing

About Paynuity

Paynuity is a leading provider of seamless, secure credit-card payment-processing solutions. Our mission is to simplify and optimize payment processing for businesses of all sizes, allowing them to focus on growth and success. As a minority-owned business, we foster a dynamic, collaborative, and diverse workplace. Our innovative solutions streamline transactions while ensuring security and reliability for our clients. We are expanding and looking for dedicated professionals to join our team and help us continue to provide exceptional service to new clients.

What You Will Do

As the Senior Designer, you will have a great opportunity to grow into the Creative Director. You will establish Paynuity's creative vision and ensure that every customer-facing touchpoint, digital product, website, print collateral, events, and investor communications, embodies our standards of precision, security, and forward-thinking design. You will pair hands-on design expertise with strategic leadership, guiding projects from concept through execution while continually raising our visual bar.

Job Description

Reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, the Creative Director leads Paynuity's Marketing & Brand function. You will own brand strategy, drive cross-functional creative initiatives, mentor internal and external talent, and work closely with Product to deliver intuitive, on-brand UX/UI experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Brand Leadership

• Define and maintain brand standards for visual identity, tone, and messaging.

• Conduct regular brand audits to ensure alignment across all assets.

Creative Direction & Execution

• Develop sophisticated visual concepts for campaigns, product launches, and thought-leadership pieces.

• Create, update, and refine high-stakes collateral-especially investor decks and executive PowerPoint presentations-ensuring data accuracy, narrative clarity, and brand consistency.

PowerPoint & Collateral Expertise

• Serve as the primary designer for investor and board presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides, translating complex financial and product data into clear, compelling visuals.

UX/UI Stewardship & Word Press Management

• Own the design and continuous enhancement of Paynuity's Word Press site, collaborating with Engineering to implement and test updates.

• Translate payment workflows into intuitive, accessible UI components in Figma.

Team & Vendor Management

• Recruit, mentor, and evaluate designers; scope and oversee freelance and agency engagements.

• Manage creative budgets, schedules, and deliverables.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales on campaign assets, with Leadership on investor materials, and with Legal on trademark protection and brand compliance.

Continuous Improvement

• Monitor design and fintech trends, proposing enhancements that strengthen Paynuity's market presence and customer experience.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive design experience, including 2+ years leading creative teams (agency or in-house).

• Demonstrated mastery of PowerPoint for executive-level presentations and investor communications.

• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and Word Press (Elementor or comparable page builders).

• Portfolio showcasing sophisticated, data-driven collateral (e.g., investor decks) and intuitive UX/UI solutions.

• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on design execution in fast-moving environments.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

• Experience in fintech, SaaS, or other regulated-industry sectors.

• Familiarity with WCAG/Section 508 accessibility standards.

• Motion-graphics or basic video-editing capabilities.

• SEO-aware copywriting or content-strategy experience.

• Photography or custom-illustration skills.

Additional Information

• Work Schedule:
  
  Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m.
  
  - 5 p.m. (Eastern)

• Compensation Range: $80,000 - $110,000 base salary, commensurate with experience

• Paid Federal Holidays

• PTO Accrual from Day One

• Portfolio submission required with application

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Paynuity is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

Join us and help paint the future of secure, intelligent payments.