Brand & Marketing Designer

If you can send your friends money in seconds why does it still take your employer two weeks to send your paycheck

At Clair we are on a mission to create financial freedom for Americas workers by giving them a digital banking platform that allows them to get paid as soon as they clock out of work. But were not just another digital bank or on-demand pay provider. We meet Americans at their place of work by embedding our products within the scheduling workforce management and payroll apps they already use every day.

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Clair is an embedded fintech company. We get workers access to the wages theyve already earned before payday through the payroll and scheduling tools they already use like Gusto QuickBooks and 7shifts.

Were hiring our first Brand & Marketing Designer. Youll own the visual work behind how Clair shows up and how we sell: illustration marketing emails our website sales and partner decks and motion in the product. One week youre building an illustration set for onboarding the next youre designing a partner pitch or a campaign in Braze. Youll report to the Director of Design and work across product marketing and sales.

The ideal candidate has a strong visual point of view exceptional attention to detail and the ability to move comfortably between big-picture creative thinking and hands-on execution.

• Illustrations

  • Build the illustration Clair uses in the product and across marketing and set the bar for what it looks like.

  • Grow our illustration library so designers arent starting from scratch every time including helping tune our AI tools to match our style.

• In-product visual work

  • Build on Clairs in-product illustration set: empty states onboarding success and error moments credit-builder milestones etc.

  • Own motion and micro-interactions on the flows that carry weight: requesting an advance success screens hitting a credit goal etc.

  • Help refine Clairs in-product motion and add more of it in Figma Motion so it stays consistent with how the design team works.

• Sales partner and marketing design

  • Design sales MBR and fundraising decks that position the product and business well working closely with Design Product and Partnerships.

  • Design recurring marketing emails in Braze.

  • Design and update pages on our website built in Framer.

  • Design assets for social and paid marketing campaigns.

  • Own events and marketing collateral (banners signage printed materials) delivering production-ready files for digital and print and coordinating with outside vendors or agencies when a project calls for it.

• Strong original illustration: You have a point of view and a style of your own and a portfolio that shows exceptional illustration work.

• Range across the business: Youre comfortable moving between product marketing and sales/growth holding quality across all three.

• Website design: We build on Framer.

• Motion and animation: A strong understanding of Figma Motion is ideal since thats what the design team uses and it keeps product handoffs clean.

• 24 years of experience in visual brand or marketing design.

• A strong portfolio across a range of formats: product marketing and presentation work.

• Experience across brand identity campaigns digital and email marketing social and presentations.

• A strong grasp of typography layout composition and color.

• You can take a loose brief and carry it through to a polished shipped result.

• A high bar for craft and detail.

• You can run several projects at once in a fast-moving environment.

• You explain your design decisions clearly and work well with non-design partners.

• You are proficient in Figma and comfortable in Adobe Creative Suite.

• Excited to work in a startup where priorities shift quickly.

• Experience working in fintech financial services technology or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience working on consumer-facing brands or products.

• Experience working in a high-growth startup environment.

You have strong creative instincts but youre not precious about the work. You know that great design starts with understanding the problem youre trying to solve.

You can take a relatively open-ended brief and turn it into something thoughtful polished and impactful. Youre comfortable asking questions bringing your own ideas to the table and pushing for a stronger creative solution when you see an opportunity.

Youre excited by variety. One day you might be developing a campaign concept; the next designing a partnership deck creating social assets or helping bring an event to life.

Most importantly you care deeply about the details. You notice when something feels slightly off and you take pride in producing work that is thoughtful intentional and beautifully executed.

This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on how a growing fintech brand shows up in the world.

Youll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of creative projects contribute to the evolution of Clairs visual identity and see your work directly influence how customers partners and the broader market experience our brand.

If youre a strong visual designer who is excited to build experiment and grow alongside a company entering its next phase wed love to hear from you.

Location: This is a hybrid position based in New York City; you will be expected to come into the office at least three days a week (Tuesdays Wednesdays & Thursdays) with additional days on occasion for client meetings.

Compensation: The annual base salary for this role is $140000-$150000. The base pay for this role is determined using many factors such as education skills and experience and is reflective of Clair Series stage and size. Base pay is only one part of Clairs competitive total compensation package which includes equity benefits and additional perks. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Clair will only contact candidates from @ email addresses. We will never ask for payments or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you happen to receive anything suspicious please ignore it.

Apart from getting to work with our incredible team here are some of the benefits you can expect when you join Clair:

• Medical Dental & Vision Coverage with option to extend to your family

• Fully-paid parental leave

• Company-sponsored 401k HSA and FSA

• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles generous PTO for hourly roles

• Work from home setup allowance

• Access to your earnings every day on Clair

• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance

Clair is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

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