Senior Marketing Design Manager

Join Imprint as a Senior Marketing Design Manager, where you will lead a small team of designers and oversee the creative execution of co-branded card programs from brief to production. This player-coach role requires hands-on design work, people leadership, and program-level thinking. You will act as the primary creative partner to brand and product stakeholders, ensuring every card program reflects the brand promise of both Imprint and its partners.

• Lead and develop a small team of designers, setting the creative bar and providing regular feedback and coaching.
• Own end to end creative execution for co branded card programs, from initial brief through final production, both personally and through your team.
• Translate partner briefs into card designs, program toolkits, and visual systems that reflect brand identity, voice and tone, and program promise.

• Strong understanding of print production, including how to prepare and build mechanicals for commercial printing
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers, even informally, with a genuine interest in growing people
• Comfort working directly with external partners or clients in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• Clear, confident communicator with the ability to translate feedback into actionable creative decisions, for clients and for your team
• Experience operating at a program level, understanding how a single design asset connects to a broader brand system
• Demonstrated experience in brand or print design, with a strong portfolio showing end to end ownership of design projects
• Proven ability to present and defend creative work to clients or stakeholders, articulating design rationale across multiple options
• Experience with credit card or financial product design, including knowledge of card manufacturing processes and specifications
• Familiarity with digital wallet and mobile app design contexts
• Experience building creative toolkits and brand systems, beyond individual asset execution
• Background in co branded or licensed design programs where multiple brand identities must coexist
• Prior experience as a design lead or manager of a small team