Brand Design Lead

About the Role

Join Panthalassa's Creative team to craft a brand identity that inspires and educates diverse audiences including communities, team members, investors, and the public. The focus is on storytelling to clarify the company’s mission and significance.

This role requires developing a design language emphasizing simplicity, clarity, and rationality. Quality is achieved through minimalism and functional design principles. As the Brand Design Lead, you will embody and spread these values throughout the team's practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead concept development and execution of brand-related projects, ensuring alignment with company mission, technology, and team.
• Create deliverables such as websites, publications, brand guidelines, presentations, one-pagers, digital brochures, investor materials, and corporate communications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and external partners to set high creative standards and maintain consistency across materials.
• Manage design systems, oversee visual coherence, and ensure the highest quality execution across diverse media.
• Conduct constructive design critiques focusing on work quality and improvement.
• Take ownership of projects and proactively manage responsibilities with minimal supervision.
• Sketch, storyboard, and prototype various brand assets and communications.
• Support and mentor junior designers and foster a collaborative team culture.
• Maintain organized asset libraries and archives.

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 8 years of experience in graphic, brand, or communication design within creative agencies, brands, or tech companies.
• Minimum 3 years leading projects, teams, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Expert proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong foundation in graphic design principles including typography, grid systems, hierarchy, and system thinking.
• Experience developing and evolving design systems.
• Ability to work autonomously in dynamic, collaborative environments while establishing sustainable processes.
• Exceptional verbal and visual communication skills.
• Comfort mentoring junior staff and contributing positively to team dynamics.
• Balance detail orientation with strategic, big-picture thinking.
• Maintain composure and confidence under pressure.
• Effective organizational and prioritization skills.

Preferred Attributes

• Established network of freelance creatives for design and web development collaboration.

Compensation and Benefits

For a full-time position, the salary ranges from $110,000 to $155,000 annually, complemented by company equity ownership expected to offer significant value. Benefits include flexible paid time off; full coverage for health, dental, vision, and disability insurance for employees and their dependents; tax-advantaged accounts including 401(k), health and dependent care FSAs; and relocation support to Portland if needed.

Location

This role is based onsite in Portland, Oregon, at the company’s offices, lab, and machine shop.

Company Overview

Panthalassa is a company devoted to renewable energy and ocean technologies aiming to rapidly advance and deploy innovations for a sustainable planet. Their mission is to harness the immense energy of oceans to enable affordable renewable energy applications. The organization operates as a public benefit corporation supported by venture capitalists, philanthropic contributors, and university endowments. It encourages innovative ideas to continuously direct its evolution.