Fonoa
Staff Brand Designer
1mo ago
EuropeLeadRemote
Senior Brand Designer responsible for defining and evolving Fonoa's visual identity across multiple channels.
Responsibilities
- Own brand quality across every touchpoint. Audit the surfaces Fonoa lives on today, identify where the bar isn't being met, and take responsibility for raising it.
- Build and maintain the brand design system. Establish the single source of truth for how Fonoa looks, and make it usable by everyone who needs it.
- Produce the work. Hands-on execution across marketing, sales, product, and web - from campaign assets to event identity to the website.
- Partner cross-functionally. Work closely with marketing, product, and leadership to translate business needs into work that meets the bar - and push back constructively where it doesn't.
- Shape the function. This is a founding seat on the in-house Brand Studio. You'll have real influence on how brand design operates at Fonoa as the company scales.
Requirements
- Exceptional craft. Your portfolio shows genuine mastery. Considered details, distinctive output, and a clear point of view. We can tell the difference between competent and excellent.
- Versatility across mediums. Comfortable moving between digital, print, environmental, and campaign work. Motion is a strong plus.
- Systems thinking. You build scalable patterns and infrastructure, not one-off assets. You can articulate how your work holds together across touchpoints.
- An AI-native sensibility. You understand how modern infrastructure and AI-native companies express themselves visually, with restraint, typography-led, system-first, product as the primary brand expression.
- High agency. You don't wait for briefs to be perfect. You take ownership, move fast, and hold yourself to a high bar without external pressure.
- Strong stakeholder instincts. You can work cross-functionally without losing the quality bar, and challenge briefs constructively where needed.
- Agency or in-house background (ideally both). Top-tier studio experience builds craft and range. In-house product company experience builds an understanding of pace, stakeholders, and systems. The strongest candidates have done both.
- A portfolio that speaks for itself. Live site strongly preferred. The CV is secondary.
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Other
- At Fonoa, we are transforming how digital-first companies stay tax compliant. We provide simple and modular API solutions that easily integrate into any existing workflow. Through our technology-first approach, we reduce manual processes, increase compliance and reduce the cost of operations when transacting and scaling internationally.
- We are solving one of the largest yet unsolved problems in global e-commerce. Our tax automation software enables companies such as Uber, Zoom & Booking.com to expand their international offerings more quickly and remain tax-compliant. Role Description We're looking for a world-class Brand Designer to help define and evolve Fonoa's visual identity.
- As Staff Brand Designer at Fonoa, you'll own how Fonoa is seen and experienced across every touchpoint as a single, unified system. Fonoa is evolving into an AI-native Tax Operating System, and the brand needs to move with it: product-led, system-structured, premium through restraint.
- The role spans web, product, campaigns, sales, print, and events, working closely with marketing, product, and leadership, and operating as the standard-bearer for brand quality across everything Fonoa puts into the world.
- This is a senior IC role on a small, high-calibre Design team at the core of the company, with hands-on craft, no people management. We're looking for exceptional taste, versatility across mediums, and the ability to hold consistency in a fast-moving environment.