Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.
When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:
🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
👩💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs
🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female
🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!
💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023
Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!
👩💻 The Role
Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for this employee and to meet the business needs, this role requires you to be based within UTC -5 to UTC +1.
We are looking for a Senior Brand Designer to join our growing creative team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Oyster’s brand identity, driving creative excellence across a variety of projects, and ensuring consistency in how we communicate with our audience. You will work on projects including enablement, digital ads, email campaign visuals, partner marketing initiatives, event assets, and community/customer advocacy materials.
This position requires a deep understanding of brand design, digital marketing strategies, and creating visual systems that scale. From concept to execution, you will ensure that every touchpoint aligns with our brand strategy, resonates with our target audience, and drives engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the conceptualization, design, and execution of creative assets across digital channels like email, events, digital ads, and web, ensuring all work aligns with Oyster’s brand identity and strategic goals.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, and product, to deliver impactful visuals that support campaigns and initiatives.
- Develop and implement scalable visual design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency across all brand touchpoints.
- Partner with external agencies and vendors to manage creative projects and uphold Oyster’s standards of excellence.
- Provide thought leadership in the design and assessment of campaign visuals, offering recommendations for engagement, visual storytelling, and innovation.
- Mentor and inspire contractors, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and growth within the team.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, bringing fresh ideas and experimentation to elevate Oyster’s creative output.
Core Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in brand design, with a strong portfolio showcasing innovative and high-quality work across digital and traditional media.
- Proven experience developing creative assets for campaigns, events, and partner co-marketing initiatives.
- Expertise in creating and scaling visual design systems that ensure brand consistency.
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate effectively across teams.
- Proficiency in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other relevant platforms. Video design experience is a plus.
- Passion for storytelling and a keen eye for detail, ensuring every asset aligns with audience insights and campaign goals.
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
You'll also need
- A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
- Fluent English language skills
Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍
Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.
We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.
💌 How YOU work
Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.
- Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
- Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
- Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
- Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
- Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
- WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!
✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone
At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.
Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.
Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.
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