Senior Brand Designer

Dumbo, Brooklyn · Hybrid (3 days on site) · Full-time · $100K–$140K Manyone's New York team is looking for a Senior Brand Designer to lead identity and brand-expression work for U.S.-based and global clients. You'll take brands from positioning to living systems - identity, typography, visual language, motion, and guidelines - and make sure they hold up across every touchpoint, digital and physical. We're a strategy-design hybrid, and our brand designers work at that seam. You'll be in the strategy conversations, not downstream of them; you'll run your own client relationships; and you'll make the work yourself. If you want a brand role where the thinking and the craft are the same job, this is it. What you'll do Lead brand identity projects from discovery and positioning through concept, design system and launch Have your own client relationships day to day - lead the conversation, and bring the client along with the work Partner with strategists to turn positioning and narrative into distinctive visual expression - and push back when the strategy needs it Develop visual identities, typography, color, imagery direction and motion principles Build brand guidelines and design systems that teams inside and outside Manyone can actually use Partner with digital designers to extend brands into products and experiences Plan and facilitate creative workshops with clients and cross-functional teams Mentor designers across the team and contribute to our creative culture What we're looking for Must have 5+ years in brand or visual identity design, with a significant part of that in an agency or consultancy A portfolio of launched identity work that shows conceptual depth, typographic craft, and systems thinking of work applied to digital products or/and interfaces Comfort working ahead of the brief - framing problems, contributing to positioning, and defending design decisions in business terms Experience leading client conversations and presenting to senior stakeholders Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma Excited and experienced utilizing and exploring new (AI) tools Experience building and documenting brand guidelines and design systems Excellent written and spoken English Able to be at our Dumbo studio three days a week Nice to have Motion design and animation Experience extending brands into digital products, environments or packaging Art direction of photography, illustration or 3D What we offer Salary range of $100K–$140K, depending on experience Comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and life insurance Hybrid work schedule, two days a week from home Generous remote work and vacation policy A genuinely international team, with regular collaboration across Denmark, Sweden, and the wider group How to apply A portfolio is required. Applications without a link to a portfolio will not be considered. Show us three to five identity projects and tell us what the problem was, what you did, and what happened. About Manyone Manyone is a strategy-design hybrid: creative thinking, strategy and technology in one consultancy, built to help businesses drive fast, strategic change through world-class execution. Our 250 designers and strategists work from 16 offices across Europe and the USA, with clients including Amazon, Magic Leap, Novo Nordisk, IKEA, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa. We work in a team-of-teams model - small, tightly knit groups that collaborate across disciplines and borders. Curiosity, openness and adaptability matter more to us than titles.