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Brand Design Lead, Brand Studio (SF/Bay Area, CA - hybrid)

Motive · United States - San Francisco, California · On-site

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About Motive

Motive provides an integrated platform to help improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations for the physical economy. Backed by Index, Insight and IVP.

About the role

The Brand Studio team is responsible for shaping and expressing Motive’s brand across every touchpoint—bringing clarity, consistency, and creativity to how we show up in the world. From integrated campaigns and product storytelling to always-on brand systems, we help Motive scale visually while staying distinctive, credible, and human. We collaborate closely with marketing, product marketing, content, growth, and regional teams to turn strategy into world-class creative work.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, or creative roles, with 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating world-class identity design, brand systems, campaign design, and integrated marketing work
  • Demonstrated ability to remain hands-on in the work while providing creative direction, mentorship, and leadership to other designers
  • Proven experience leading and developing designers across regions or time zones
  • Figma-first mindset, with deep expertise using Figma for collaborative design, system building, and team workflows
  • Experience building or evolving design systems and scalable creative processes
More about this role

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

The Brand Studio team is responsible for shaping and expressing Motive’s brand across every touchpoint—bringing clarity, consistency, and creativity to how we show up in the world. From integrated campaigns and product storytelling to always-on brand systems, we help Motive scale visually while staying distinctive, credible, and human. We collaborate closely with marketing, product marketing, content, growth, and...

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