Brand Design Manager
About Lark
Lark is the world's largest A.I. healthcare provider, servicing nearly 2 million patients living with or at risk of a chronic disease. Lark is a companion app on the user’s phone providing real-time coaching, guidance, and health insights to users. We are on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry and make the world a healthier, happier place. Come join our team!
The Role
We’re looking for an experienced hands-on Brand Design Manager to join our design leadership team to accelerate our growth and help shape a world-class brand in the health tech space. In this pivotal role at Lark, you'll be instrumental in helping build out the Brand Design pillar and help the Brand Designers reach their highest potential. You'll also mentor and bring out the best in your team by creating new opportunities, eliminating blockers, and inspiring creative collaboration. You will facilitate complex problem solving with marketing executives to influence brand strategy, marketing roadmaps, and inspire cross-functional executing teams towards the success of delivering brand consistency and cohesion across all channels. You’ll design brand experiences and campaigns that help tell the story of the value of Lark, including creation and execution for our consumer-facing sites, landing pages, brand materials, digital and traditional ads, social media assets and much more. You over-invest in the visual and interaction portion of your work and consider yourself a craftsperson at heart. This role will report to the Head of Design & UX Research
What You’ll Do
- Manage a small team of incredible designers by mentoring, coaching, and creating growth opportunities for them and others as the team grows
- Handling multiple projects - effectively prioritizing the work and the creation and management of quick, but realistic, timelines
- Partner, create and execute design briefs and requirements with the marketing team
- Partner with marketing, product, engineering, and design leaders, to bring engaging campaigns and delightful brand experiences to our patients
- Provide hands-on creative direction for high impact initiatives across the organization
- Collaborate with design leadership to evolve our process, tools, and brand design system to ensure we’re creating great, consistent work
- Ensure team members are creating high-quality work that delights our patients, meets company objectives, and reinforces our brand across all our channels
- Expand our team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new employees
What You’ll Need
- You are a cross-functional collaborator: you do your best work when partnering with Marketing, Sales, Product, and more to drive alignment and clarity
- An experimental & growth mindset: you approach each challenge as an opportunity to experiment, learn and iterate
- A keen interest in improving operational efficiencies, then taking action to bring about those improvements. Especially challenges that pertain to scaling design teams as a whole
- A passion for brand strategy: you can define strategies, ideas, and concepts and effectively communicate them in compelling ways that inspire action
- An eye for aesthetic: You recognize "great design" and love to challenge teams to continuously redefine what "great" looks like
- Strong design experience that allows you to move from high-level strategic conversations through to execution easily and clearly
- Built brands in the B2B/B2C space
- Experience establishing and/or scaling brand design systems
- Experience working with multi-time zone teams
- Excitement about building a world-class brand in Health Tech!
- Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Linguistics, HCI, Product Design, or related discipline
- 3+ years of brand design management experience: you've hired, grown, and inspired brand design teams
Working at Lark
Lark offers the option to work remotely in the United States. For Colorado Applicants only: minimum annual salary is $122,000 (minimum salary varies for other geographies). You may also be offered a bonus, stock options and/or benefits. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
Lark is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that diverse teams foster innovation and add to our mission-driven culture. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
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