Brand Design Lead

1 day, 1 hour ago
Full-time
Senior
Design and User Experience
City Cast

City Cast

City Cast produces daily local news podcasts and newsletters designed to enhance civic engagement and foster a deeper connection to various American cities.

Internet Software & Services
11-50
Founded 2020

Description

  • Own and uphold City Cast’s visual brand standards across national, local, editorial, marketing, membership, revenue, event, and digital channels.
  • Serve as the final design approver for materials representing City Cast externally or across multiple markets.
  • Translate brand strategy into clear design systems, templates, and creative guidance for internal and local teams.
  • Partner with leadership and contractors to evolve the visual identity as the company grows.
  • Design and maintain sales materials including media kits, pitch decks, one-pagers, sponsorship materials, GTM collateral, case studies, and partner presentations.
  • Collaborate with Revenue, Marketing, and leadership to turn audience insights and campaign concepts into polished external-facing materials.
  • Guide the vision for marketing campaigns across email, social, web, events, membership, paid media, video, swag, and partner channels.
  • Create campaign toolkits that can be adapted across multiple cities while maintaining brand consistency.
  • Own the intake, prioritization, and workflow for design requests across departments.
  • Manage freelance or contract designers, scope their work, and review and approve deliverables.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional design experience, ideally in brand systems, marketing design, sales collateral, media, publishing, or mission-driven consumer brands.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating visual storytelling, typography, layout, brand consistency, and multi-channel design execution.
  • Experience creating sales enablement materials, pitch decks, GTM collateral, media kits, or partner-facing assets.
  • Strong understanding of how design supports business goals such as audience growth, revenue, brand trust, and partner storytelling.
  • Excellent communication skills for working with non-design stakeholders and providing clear feedback to collaborators and contractors.
  • Experience working with brand systems and adapting creative across multiple formats, markets, or sub-brands.
  • Experience managing design workflows, request systems, templates, and asset libraries.
  • Comfort using Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Google Slides, and template-based workflows.
  • Good judgment, diplomacy, and the ability to push back thoughtfully on priorities, scope, or timelines.
  • Preferred experience in media, publishing, audio, local journalism, entertainment, or a multi-market brand.
  • Preferred experience designing for revenue teams, sponsorship teams, advertisers, or B2B partnerships.
  • Preferred experience creating high-quality Google Slides or pitch decks for executives, sellers, or external partners.
  • Preferred experience managing freelancers, contractors, or outside creative partners.
  • Preferred experience building templates or self-serve design systems for non-design teams.
  • Portfolio examples showing brand system work, sales or partner materials, multi-format design execution, and translation of business goals into visual systems or campaigns.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote position.
  • Salary range of $95,000-$110,000 depending on experience.
  • Excellent benefits.
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.
  • Opportunity to work for a growing multi-city local news podcast network with newsletter and website products.

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