Senior Brand Designer

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Product Creative team at Affirm is a cross-functional group of brand designers, copywriters, and creative strategists focused on bringing Affirm’s brand to life across every touchpoint. We partner closely with Product, Product Marketing, and Growth teams to ensure our brand is cohesive, consistent, and impactful across app, web, email, and beyond.

We’re seeking a Senior Brand Designer to help shape the visual identity of Affirm’s consumer communications and product experiences. This role will be pivotal in designing thoughtful, delightful, and cohesive experiences that bring clarity to our customers at key moments in their journey with Affirm. As part of this role, you’ll have a chance to build scalable design systems, partner across teams, and push creative boundaries to elevate Affirm’s brand presence.

What You'll Do

• Drive the visual strategy and execution of Affirm’s consumer-facing communications across web, email, app, and other product experiences.

• Uphold a high standard of visual design, ensuring every communication is thoughtful, clear, and visually delightful.

• Partner with Partner Marketing Managers to craft product campaigns and experiences to ensure they are visually engaging, cohesive, and reinforce Affirm’s brand narrative.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Research, Content Design, Product Management, Product Marketing, Brand and Compliance & Legal to execute delightful user experiences.

• Be agile about providing context and incorporating feedback from Affirmers at all levels – engaging with teams across Affirm to educate, inform, and answer questions.

What We Look For

• 5+ years experience in brand or visual design, communications design, or product design roles.

• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• A compelling portfolio showcasing a diverse range of strong visual designs, including branded campaigns, illustrations, motion design, responsive web design, and marketing collateral — with an emphasis on concept development and thoughtful execution.

• High level proficiency with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects).

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Lottiefiles, Spline.

• Comfort in ambiguity: you are able to self-direct, prioritize, and clearly communicate with stakeholders in shifting environments.

• Attention to detail – meticulous when it comes to typography, grids, balance, and white space.

• Can distill complex ideas and processes into clear, actionable guidance for a wide range of stakeholders. You are willing to push and fight for an idea, while able to listen and problem solve as a team player.

• Animation and motion graphic skills a strong advantage.

• Experience with consumer finance and/or payments.

• Technical understanding of how to build and architect design systems.

Pay Grade - I

Equity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

CAN base pay range per year: $90,000 - $130,000

Location - Remote Canada

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: 

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents 
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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