Design Director, Brand Design

This role will entail communicating effectively with the senior leadership across Brand, Marketing, Campaign, and Product, as well as collaborating with designers, copywriters, developers, project and marketing managers. Be prepared to lead and develop guidelines, briefings, layouts and ideas from the ground up, pitch ideas to team members, create compelling, relevant, and meaningful work, as well as be a steward for the brand with partner agencies and teams throughout Uber. This is both a leadership and a hands-on role scaling appropriate as the work demands. What the Candidate Will Do • Collaborate and ideate with multidisciplinary teams including leadership, senior stakeholders, copywriters, communication designers, illustrators, motion & animation designers, environments designers, brand strategists, marketing managers, and creative directors to build and maintain visual brand excellence for a wide range of needs • Understand and help define design briefs and requirements before completing • Manage, direct, and grow designers and agencies to meet business needs • Brainstorm and iterate with the creative team and brand leadership to help elevate and evolve design at Uber • Develop creative solutions for product, digital, and print communications where ideas can work globally, scale locally, and adapt for a variety of surfaces and use cases • Develop resources, guidelines, and templates that empower the global marketing and product teams to use illustration in impactful and resonant ways • Leads multiple project/program/platform team(s) • Questions the status quo. Preferred Qualifications • Maintain a portfolio of beautiful, compelling design work • Experience working on a range of projects including scalable and extensible design systems, guidelines, responsive web pages or emails, out of home or advertisements • Solid experience in all aspects of graphic design, with brand design and visual system design systems are crucial • Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite applications • Ability to design according to business and technical requirements and comfort with ambiguity and changes in direction • Experience working with or influencing brand strategy or business objectives • Bring definition to projects by focusing on broader objectives rather than fixed deliverables • Experience leading and mentoring designers and managing collaborations with external agency partners • Experience outward communication of design changes, agency briefings, and brand onboarding of teams • Experience working well with creatives as well as cross functional stakeholders, receiving feedback, and adapting work.