Senior Brand Designer

• Grindr’s Brand Design Studio, the in-house team responsible for how Grindr shows up outside the app, is looking for a Senior Brand Designer
• This role sits at the intersection of brand, product and communication design
• As Grindr expands, the visual language has grown with it
• This role requires a conceptual thinker who can bring ideas to life in new and inspiring ways
• In this role, you’ll translate briefs into creative, adopt and build upon our design systems, templates, and guidelines that help Grindr’s teams move fast while keeping the brand consistent, expressive, and culturally relevant at global scale
• In this role, you must be able to defend why certain design choices are right, not just how it looks
• Develop on-brand solutions for creative across campaigns, product launches, social, events, and cultural moments — from concept through final production
• Serve as a creative partner to cross-functional teams across the company, translating briefs from Marketing, Growth, Product, Comms, Partnerships, and Grindr for Equality into clear, compelling creative
• Help evolve and extend Grindr’s visual identity — contributing to brand system decisions, setting creative direction, and holding the quality bar across every touchpoint the Design Studio supports
• Maintain the infrastructure that lets a lean studio punch above its weight: reusable templates, toolkits, component libraries, and guidelines that let partner teams move without diluting the brand
• Design and produce presentation materials for high-stakes audiences
• Switch between projects quickly
• Uses design thinking and best practices across work
• Support and grow talent of junior designers

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees
• 401k Matching (up to 6%)
• Flexible PTO, sick-time, holidays, and two company wide shut-down weeks + an annual travel and leisure stipend
• Equity for all employees
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for food and wellness as well as fully catered onsite breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Gender Affirmation Fund for transgender and gender non-conforming employees
• Queer-inclusive health benefits including LGBTQ consultative healthcare and expanded HRT shipped directly to employees in eligible states
• Monthly commuter stipend to get you to and from the office on in-person collaboration days
• Community projects and charitable giving stipend to support LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations alongside Grindr for Equality

Preferred experience

• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop required; Video Editing is a strong plus)
• A design portfolio that shows both strategic conceptual thinking and exceptional craft — evidence you can define a creative direction and execute it at a high level across multiple touchpoints
• Track record of supporting multiple stakeholder teams at once — you can prioritize competing requests, push back with a rationale, and keep quality high across a wide surface area
• You can take work from concept to final files
• Strong presentation and communication skills: you can present creative to senior stakeholders, explain your reasoning, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and advocate for the strong version of the idea
• 6-10 years of design experience, ideally across both agency and in-house environments
• Experience building brand systems, not just working within one