[Hiring] Design Lead @Imprint

Role Description

As Design Lead, Credit Cards at Imprint, you will lead a small team of designers while owning the creative execution of co-branded card programs from brief to production. This is a player coach role, you'll be hands-on with design work while also guiding, developing, and setting the bar for the designers on your team.

• Act as the primary creative partner to brand and product stakeholders.
• Translate partner briefs into compelling visual presentations.
• Defend design rationale and ensure every card program reflects the brand promise of both Imprint and its partners.
• Responsible for the quality and consistency of your team's output.
• Coach team members through critique and help them grow as designers.
• Understand how a card fits within a digital wallet, a mobile app, and a partner's broader identity.
• Build production-ready mechanicals that meet the specialized requirements of credit card manufacturing.
• Instill fluency in design processes within your team.

What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days

• Ramped on active programs and contributing meaningfully to in-flight milestones such as press checks.
• Built working relationships with your team and established a rhythm for critique and feedback.
• Established credibility as a client-facing creative, listening to partner feedback and confidently presenting options.
• Demonstrated fluency in print production as it applies to card manufacturing.
• Produced work that reflects program-level thinking: how card design connects to digital wallet, app context, voice and tone, and overarching brand promise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team of designers, setting the creative bar and providing regular feedback and coaching.
• Own end-to-end creative execution for co-branded card programs, from initial brief through final production.
• Lead client-facing creative presentations, listening to partner feedback and defending design decisions.
• Translate partner briefs into card designs, program toolkits, and visual systems.
• Build production-ready mechanicals for card manufacturing.
• Manage program-level creative thinking across card design, digital wallet, and app contexts.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders across brand, product, and external partners.
• Maintain quality and consistency across all creative deliverables throughout the program lifecycle.
• Participate in production milestones including press checks and printer coordination.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in brand or print design, with a strong portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of design projects.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers, with a genuine interest in growing people.
• Proven ability to present and defend creative work to clients or stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of print production, including how to prepare and build mechanicals for commercial printing.
• Experience operating at a program level, understanding how a single design asset connects to a broader brand system.
• Clear, confident communicator with the ability to translate feedback into actionable creative decisions.
• Comfort working directly with external partners or clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with credit card or financial product design.
• Familiarity with digital wallet and mobile app design contexts.
• Experience building creative toolkits and brand systems.
• Background in co-branded or licensed design programs.
• Prior experience as a design lead or manager of a small team.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages.
• Leading configured work computers of your choice.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage.
• Access to additional health coverage including One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA.
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents.
• Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units.