Staff Brand Designer

Who we are:

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Motive combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to connect and automate physical operations. Motive is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, serving more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is built on four foundational attributes; Own It, Less but Better, Build Trust, and Unlock Potential. This has taken our company to great heights, including being recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces, Forbes Best Startup Employers, and Comparably for our Best Global Culture, Sales Team, Leadership Team, Career Growth, and CEO for Diversity. We’re proud to receive an employee net promoter score of 63 (according to Comparably) which places Motive in the top 5% of companies with 4,000 employees or more. 

Today, our team is made up of more than 4,000 employees, located across the world, providing support to a wide range of customers. While most of our employees are remote, many have the opportunity to work on-site at any of our 8 global office locations. Visit our careers website to learn more about opportunities at Motive. 

About the role:

Motive is looking for a seasoned and hand-on design practitioner to drive the application and continued development of our recent rebrand – applying, stretching, and evolving our design system to continuously up-level our visual communications. This role partners alongside our VP Design, Creative Director, Strategy, and Marketing teams to translate our brand strategy and messaging into compelling visual systems and narratives. In addition to working on the tentpole brand initiatives, you will set a high bar for visual expression, help guide, and mentor other designers on the team. 

Responsibilities:

• Execute brand and marketing assets with bar-raising use of design elements across all channels
• Leverage, evaluate, and evolve all elements of our design systems
• Collaborate with product and marketing to educate on and maintain a cohesive brand
• Be a strong practitioner and advocate for consistent and cohesive design
• Understand customer and business problems through research and data
• Own design problems end to end, from initial concept through execution and beyond
• Lead multiple priorities, meet deadlines consistently, and champion projects from concept to completion in a fast-paced environment.
• Define goals, success metrics, and strategy for your projects
• Build alignment and articulate vision through strong storytelling and presentations skills
• Obsess over the details of visual, interaction, and communication design
• Prioritize, build, and distribute new assets and templates that allow us to scale as a globally distributed team
• Become a key thought partner to your counterparts in growth and marketing teams
• Ship, measure, and improve your designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback
• Mentor other designers and contribute to the overall design culture of the company

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working in similar role(s)
• Expert level design chops: you’ve got the book to back up your claims – Sass and technology industries are a plus
• You’ve built, or been a part of building, brands from the very start through to their full realization in a company
• Ability to ship projects with various timelines and budget constraints
• A strong POV with the ability to back up your perspectives with data and research
• Cross functional partnership. You must be able to speak their language, and also help them learn ours
• Mastery of modern design software, workflows, and processes
• Experience working with or creating design systems and frameworks
• Demonstrate excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Capacity to be comfortable with and navigate an industry undergoing disruption
• Unbounded curiosity and sense of adventure
• Animation, illustration and/or experience with 3D a plus

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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