Senior Brand Designer - 12-month fixed-term contract

Stake is looking for a Senior Brand Designer (12-month maternity leave contract) to join us at our brand new Sydney CBD location within a hybrid working model!

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

About this role

The Senior Brand Designer, alongside the Principal Brand Designer, is responsible for shaping and elevating the visual identity of the brand - in concept and delivery - across all touchpoints. This role involves hands-on design execution spanning layout, concept development, visual systems, templating, toolkit creation and detailed craft. It also requires strategic thinking to ensure that every piece of communication across EDMs, social media, performance marketing, ATL campaigns, and other brand touchpoints reflect the brand’s vision, personality, and standards.

Working within the marketing team, and alongside the product team, the Senior Brand Designer leads key creative projects, drives brand consistency and contributes to the evolution of the brand.

Further responsibilities include:

• Work alongside the Principal Brand Designer to maintain and evolve the brand identity, including logos, typography, colour systems, imagery and overall visual expression
• Design high-quality visual assets for campaigns, digital platforms, print materials and social content
• Partner closely with the marketing and product teams to ensure all design work aligns with brand and business objectives
• Own projects end-to-end from concept through execution, delivering work that meets timelines, briefs and quality standards
• Develop creative concepts and contribute to the brand’s storytelling and strategic direction
  Provide feedback, support and creative guidance to junior/mid-level designers to uphold a high standard of design
• Present design concepts and clearly communicate the reasoning behind visual decisions to stakeholders
  Maintain brand consistency across all deliverables and ensure execution aligns with established brand guidelines
• Manage multiple design projects simultaneously while navigating shifting priorities and deadlines

A bit about you

• Strong brand design experience shaping and evolving visual identities across digital, social, print and campaign touchpoints
• Hands-on design craft with a sharp eye for detail, layout, visual systems and high-quality execution
• Previous experience in an agency capacity and strong concept development skills
• Extensive experience with using Figma
• Conceptual and strategic thinking to translate brand vision and business objectives into compelling creative work
• End-to-end project ownership, confidently managing multiple briefs, timelines and stakeholders
• Collaborative leadership skills, partnering with marketing and product teams

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

Benefits of working at Stake

You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.

Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program. They include:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. If we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.