Brand Design Manager

Senior-level individual contributor on the Brand Creative team responsible for the execution, evolution, and stewardship of the visual brand across high-impact experiences, initiatives, and design systems. This role requires balancing hands-on design execution with cross-functional project ownership, while building and providing brand enablement to both internal teams and external partners to ensure the brand is applied consistently and effectively.

Please submit your portfolio in addition to your resume when applying. This role can either be based remotely in the US or in one of our office locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Help lead and execute design work across brand experiences, campaigns, and events (e.g. .local, Mindshare Brand Campaigns, AWS re:Invent, SKO, etc)
• Deeply involved in concepting, ideation, and system development for high-impact initiatives, translating brand strategy into scalable visual systems across print, digital, motion, and environmental applications
• Own design execution end-to-end, from early concept through delivery, serving as a key communicator across internal teams, agencies, and contractors.
• Provide system documentation, visual storytelling guidance/direction, and feedback to ensure alignment and consistent execution of brand systems across deliverables, timelines, and stakeholder reviews, particularly within fast-paced event and campaign environments
• Build and maintain enablement resources that allow teams across the organization to apply the brand confidently and correctly. This includes templates, documentation, and guidance for programs beyond marketing, ensuring brand systems are usable, clear, and well-communicated
• Serve as a keeper of the brand, maintaining and evolving core brand systems including typography, iconography, logo usage, color, and layout frameworks. Ensure brand libraries and shared resources such as the Figma brand library, presentation templates, icons, and brand book remain accurate and up to date
• Collaborate closely with adjacent design teams including events, social, web and product to ensure consistency across all brand touchpoints. Partner with specialty disciplines such as animation and illustration to develop storyboards, style frames, and other specialized assets as needed

Skills & Expertise

• Strong fluency across print, digital, motion, and event design systems
• Expert event environmental and campaign design, including large-scale brand moments
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe & Figma systems, libraries, and scalable brand documentation
• Clear communicator of design rationale, systems, and constraints to both creative and non-creative stakeholders
• Ability to operate as both a hands-on designer and a strategic partner within a collaborative team environment

What we need to see

• BFA or MA/MS degree in design, art and design or a related field, or equivalent work experience demonstrating commitment to excellence in visual design and illustration
• 6+ years of design experience. We are looking for a high performer who is ready to transition into a senior role or has been in a senior role for a maximum of 1 to 2 years
• A portfolio highly focused work showcasing event design, campaigns, layout, design systems and visual storytelling

How to stand out

• Showcase you have an advance knowledge and understanding of relevant design theory
• Demonstrate consistent lateral thinking when undertaking large projects, identifying gaps and potential areas of conflicts and ties back to team goals
• Be able to discuss strong cross-functional relationships and the importance of having these relationships
• Showcase that research and empathy is part of your illustration process

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

REQ ID: 2273478590

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:$104,000—$204,000 USD