Principal Designer- Brand Systems

Edmentum Inc.
United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$130,000.0 - $145,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Computer Animation Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro Artificial Intelligence Responsive Web Design Software Engineering Figma

Job description

As our Principal Designer, you’ll be the driving force behind Edmentum’s Design System and Brand Guidelines, shaping how millions of educators and students experience our brand. Partnering closely with the Creative Director, you’ll build and govern the systems that keep our visual identity consistent, scalable, and accessible across every touchpoint, while staying hands-on with the craft you love: design systems, motion graphics, web design, and brand storytelling. You’ll play a central role in our brand refresh and modernization efforts, and your work will connect Marketing, Product, and Development around one unified creative vision.

In this role you will:

  • Lead the development, governance, and evolution of Edmentum’s design systems and Figma component libraries
  • Shape and maintain the brand guidelines and visual identity that define how Edmentum shows up in the world
  • Design scalable, accessible web experiences, templates, and UI solutions
  • Create standout marketing assets across digital, social, email, web, presentations, events, and print
  • Partner across Product, Development, Marketing, and content teams to bring one consistent brand to life everywhere
  • Bring stories to motion through animation, motion graphics, and video
  • Champion smarter workflows, stronger documentation, and AI-enhanced design practices

Requirements

  • You have a bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • You have 10 or more years of experience spanning graphic design, brand design, creative marketing, design systems, and UX/UI design
  • You are a Figma power user with deep expertise in libraries, components, variables, FigJam, and Buzz
  • You have built and governed enterprise design systems
  • You have a strong command of Atomic Design, responsive design, web design, and user experience principles
  • You are an expert in typography, layout, and visual storytelling
  • You are proficient across Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, and Premiere Pro
  • You bring motion graphics and animation experience to your work
  • You have designed presentations and sales enablement materials that land
  • You collaborate seamlessly with software development and product teams
  • You embrace AI-powered design workflows to work smarter
  • You are willing to take on evolving responsibilities based on business needs

Benefits & conditions

Be an Early Applicant Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 130K-145K Annually Expert/Leader Remote Hiring Remotely in United States 130K-145K Annually Expert/Leader Lead Edmentum’s design systems, Figma libraries, brand guidelines, and visual identity. Create scalable web experiences, UI solutions, marketing assets, presentations, and motion graphics across digital and print channels. Partner with Product, Development, Marketing, and Content teams to ensure consistent, accessible brand execution. Govern enterprise design systems, improve documentation and workflows, and support brand modernization through AI-enhanced design practices. The summary above was generated by AI, $130,000-$145,000 USD

At Edmentum, we are committed to pay transparency. The salary range provided reflects market research, the responsibilities of the role, and alignment with our compensation principles. Actual compensation will be determined based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill sets. All compensation decisions are individualized and based on the specific circumstances of each candidate.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your overall well-being and work-life balance. This includes medical, dental, and vision insurance with various plan options, a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching, and a time away program, volunteer time away, and a winter office closure at the end of December. Additionally, we provide resources to promote wellness, ensuring you have the support you need both professionally and personally. Our goal is to provide a benefits package that helps you thrive in all aspects of life.

Edmentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as a disabled, recently separated, Armed Forces service medal or other protected veteran (ā€œcovered veteranā€), marital status, status regarding public assistance, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws., Remote or Hybrid CA, USA 264K-395K Annually Expert/Leader 264K-395K Annually Expert/Leader eCommerce * Fintech * Hardware * Payments * Software * Financial Services Own the architecture and technical strategy for Square’s go-to-market systems. Build and operate production AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations that improve sales productivity. Lead complex initiatives through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations while establishing AI evaluation, observability, security, reliability, and human-oversight practices. Partner with Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions, make build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, and improve business impact through data and user feedback. Top Skills: Ai AgentsCrm PlatformsGoLarge Language Models (Llms)RetrievalTool CallingWorkflow Orchestration Square, 264K-395K Annually Entry level 264K-395K Annually Entry level eCommerce * Fintech * Hardware * Payments * Software * Financial Services Lead complex card-acquiring projects from design through production, building reliable payment systems, tooling, testing frameworks, and network integrations. Work hands-on with ISO messages, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, interchange, and tokenization. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve reliability, participate in on-call operations, and establish standards adopted across teams. The role requires deep acquiring expertise and experience operating large-scale financial systems. Top Skills: Ai Coding AgentsCard-Network IntegrationsIso 20022Iso 8583Payment Tokenization Square

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About the company

Edmentum is a dynamic educator and student-focused company dedicated to tech-enabled learning solutions. Our goal is to ensure that all students have access to flexible learning environments and educators have the tools they need to support their students. We are on a mission to create innovative, proven learning technology, partnering with educators to ignite student potential. We are a Remote First organization with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

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