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Design Director, Brand Design

United States, San Francisco 190000.00 - 211000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 27, 2026
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Job Description

We are seeking an Design Director for Brand Design who excels at working within and expanding extensible design systems to create cohesive and impactful visual solutions across multiple parts of the Uber brand, across different mediums and platforms. This role requires a collaborative individual who can partner seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and other key stakeholders, bringing creative problem-solving skills and a sharp design sensibility to every project. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with a clear and compelling point of view, while remaining flexible and open to collaboration. If you’re passionate about delivering designs and scalable brand solutions that are both visually stunning and strategically effective, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Responsibility

  • Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary teams including leadership, senior stakeholders, copywriters, communication designers, illustrators, motion & animation designers, environments designers, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors to build and maintain visual brand excellence for a wide range of needs
  • Understand and help define design briefs and requirements before completing
  • Manage, direct, and grow designers and agencies to meet business needs
  • Brainstorm and iterate with the creative team and brand leadership to help elevate and evolve design at Uber
  • Develop creative solutions for product, digital, and print communications where ideas can work globally, scale locally, and adapt for a variety of surfaces and use cases
  • Develop resources, guidelines, and templates that empower the global marketing and product teams to use illustration in impactful and resonant ways
  • Leads multiple project/program/platform team(s)
  • Questions the status quo. Identifies new strategic opportunities.
  • Constantly raises the bar on work quality
  • Solves challenges that contribute to company goals, enables operational efficiencies

Requirements

  • 10+ years working as a Design lead on a brand team, in a creative agency or comparable in-house agency, or creative organization
  • Bachelor or Masters Degree in design or equivalent
  • Maintain a portfolio of beautiful, compelling design work
  • Experience working on a range of projects including scalable and extensible design systems, guidelines, responsive web pages or emails, out of home or advertisements
  • Solid experience in all aspects of graphic design, with brand design and visual system design systems are crucial
  • Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications
  • Ability to design according to business and technical requirements and comfort with ambiguity and changes in direction
  • Experience working with or influencing brand strategy or business objectives
  • Bring definition to projects by focusing on broader objectives rather than fixed deliverables
  • Experience leading and mentoring designers and managing collaborations with external agency partners
  • Experience outward communication of design changes, agency briefings, and brand onboarding of teams
  • Experience working well with creatives as well as cross functional stakeholders, receiving feedback, and adapting work.
  • Fosters strong working relationships with cross functional partners
  • A desire to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a cross functional partners
  • Thrive in collaborative environments while maintaining a clear and confident point of view
  • Detail oriented and organized
  • Strong communication skills, an ability to understand your audience, and can present your work in compelling ways
  • Expertise in branding, style guides, experiential, and digital marketing (Email, in-app, SMS/PUSH, paid social and display channels) best practices or proficiency using various marketing technologies
  • Familiarity with user experience principles
  • Experience scaling ideas for global deliverables
  • Familiarity with Google Docs and Slides
  • Proficiency in quickly iterating in design for customer testing
  • Experience with physical activations and/or environmental graphic design
  • Leverages AI and generative AI solutions throughout personal and design work flows

What we offer

  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • Eligible for various benefits

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