Director Brand Design

We’re looking for a Director Brand Design who can bridge product and marketing — a hybrid thinker who crafts beautiful scalable systems and brings them to life in campaigns UI and content. You’ll sit in the Growth org led by Morgan Brown and partner closely with Product Design Creative and Comms. Your north star: make every experience — from ad to app — feel unmistakably Opendoor and use a refreshed design system as a growth lever.

This is a player-coach role: you’ll set the vision build the system and standards ship real work and mentor your team and collaborators across functions.

Design System Leadership

• Translate brand strategy into a modern scalable design system (tokens color type iconography illustration motion accessibility) that powers both product and marketing.

• Lead the end-to-end refresh of Opendoor’s design system; establish governance documentation versioning and adoption plans.

• Build clear modular guidelines and templates for internal teams and external partners to move fast with quality.

Product x Marketing Integration

• Partner with Product Design and Growth PMs to infuse brand personality into in-product moments (onboarding confirmations animations empty states education).

• Design and optimize growth surfaces: website landing pages offer flows onboarding email/CRM and paid media destinations.

• Champion an end-to-end customer journey — ensuring visual and emotional consistency from first impression to closed deal.

Creative Content and Performance

•  Concept and deliver integrated campaigns and content that connect seamlessly to the product experience.

• Create tooling and repeatable systems for performance creative across channels (CRM web social programmatic video OOH retail signage).

• Infuse motion and storytelling to bring warmth confidence and humanity to the brand while driving measurable lift.

Leadership Operations and Collaboration

• Serve as a connector across Marketing Product Design Comms Data and Media — aligning what we promise with what we deliver.

• Establish design quality bars review rituals accessibility standards and localization guidance.

• Manage agency/vendor relationships; coach and uplevel designers and cross-functional creators. Opportunity to build a small high-impact team over time.

• 8–12+ years in brand visual or graphic design; tech fintech or consumer marketplace experience preferred.

• A portfolio that demonstrates both storytelling and systems thinking — brand expressed across UI campaigns and content with measurable impact.

• Proven track record building and scaling design systems used by product and marketing; fluency in tokens components documentation and governance.

• Strong cross-functional chops — comfortable partnering with Growth Product Data Science Media and Engineering.

• Mastery of Figma and modern design workflows; familiarity with motion design illustration and component libraries is a plus.

• Bias for clarity simplicity and trust; exceptional craft and a knack for translating strategy into shipped work.

• Player-coach mindset: you can zoom out to set direction and zoom in to execute with excellence.

• AI Fluency: Demonstrated mastery of AI-powered design tools (e.g. Midjourney Magnific Runway etc.) for ideation asset creation and production.

• Scalable Systems: Experience building and using scalable design systems including AI prompt libraries and component kits to accelerate team-wide output.

• High-Velocity Execution: A portfolio that showcases an ability to produce high-quality work in rapid iterative cycles with examples of projects that went from concept to launch in days not weeks.

• Pragmatic Craft: Proven ability to make smart trade-offs between speed and polish delivering excellent results within a fast-paced evolving environment.

• Shape one of the most disruptive brands in real estate at a critical moment of category transformation.
• Use a refreshed design system to drive cohesion velocity and growth across product and marketing.
• Work at the intersection of creativity and technology with exceptional peers in design growth and engineering — all united by a mission to make moving simple.

Our compensation plan consists of a base salary Opendoor equity and a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off paid holidays medical/dental/vision insurance basic life insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.  All compensation parameters are based on experience.

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What We Do

Founded in 2014 Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and confusing. It often comes with unexpected costs the added burden of coordinating multiple third parties and the uncertainty of a transaction falling through. Our goal is simple: build a digital end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds and talents across engineering operations design operations mortgage finance legal and more to deliver strong results. More than 85000 customers have selected us as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions.

Why Work With Us

We’re on a mission to power life’s progress one move at a time

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