Senior Brand Designer

As a Senior Brand Designer at Marqeta, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing engaging, performance-driven work as part of the Content and Creative team. You will be responsible for ideation, exploration, and implementation of visuals across mediums and channels with an eye toward continual up-leveling of our campaigns and the Marqeta brand.  Beyond the ability to create beautiful work, you are an ambitious, detail-oriented designer with a passion for process, comfortability with feedback and iteration, and strong foundation in the fundamentals.  You anchor your design work in solving the business problem at hand and you know the value of a thoughtful design system.  

We are a small-but-mighty team, so excellent communication, organization, proactivity, and follow-through are key.  We are highly collaborative and we count on each other for the collaboration that makes our work better (and more fun!).

We work. This role can be performed remote within the United States or from our Oakland, CA or New York City offices. We’d love for you to join us!

NOTE: if you are based within 35 miles of our Oakland, California, New York City (Midtown) or London office, you will be expected to be in-office 2 days / week. The Talent team will share more details if selected for the Recruiter Interview.

The Impact You’ll Have

Creating visual systems that tell clear stories, and leave an impression on our audiences and Marqeta’s visual brand. 

Producing end to end creative for campaigns, across various channels and brand surfaces.

Building wireframes and create visuals for responsive web experiences that drive conversion 

Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic approach and   design effective, compelling presentations 

Help scale our design impact by implementing design systems, leveraging automation tools. building effective templates, collaborating with our data and insights teams to test and optimize our work,  and evolving/adjusting our processes for an increasingly efficient workflow.

Who You Are

Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field, or equivalent work experience

10+ years experience in brand design, in house or agency

Portfolio of work that demonstrates excellent design across a range of channels/surfaces and strong process

You are skilled in Figma (collaborative use of features including building and using brand libraries, variables and components), Adobe Creative Suite (3D and motion preferred), and Google Docs.

Your design principles and fundamentals are excellent: layout, hierarchy, balance, typography, color theory

You have pixel-perfect attention to detail.  Uneven margins bug you!

You “show your work” through process and iteration, demonstrated in portfolio

You take a generous approach to collaboration: giving and receiving feedback freely and openly in design crits with a kind, constructive mindset  

You are flexible and adaptable to create great work in a fast moving, dynamic environment

You manage your calendar and work flow effectively to maximize your productivity

You have a spirit of curiosity and a drive to seek new ground.  You desire to learn new things to address skills gaps on the team and drive your personal and career growth

Nice To Haves

Motion design capabilities 

3D capabilities 

Web UX design experience

B2B and in house experience preferred 

Experience using AI to optimize design process and production

Typical Process

Application Submission

Recruiter phone call

Hiring manager video call

Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls

Offer!

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.

Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA

Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.

Visit  or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:

National: $98,200 - $122,700

Premium: $106,200 - $132,800

Premium Plus: $115,400 - $144,300

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off – take what you need

Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions

Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program

Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice

Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.  This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy 

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit  with your specific accommodation request.

Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the. Additional information for California residents can be found .  

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.  This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy 

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit with your specific accommodation request.

Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the. Additional information for California residents can be found .