Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy, and increase economic freedom around the world.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.

Read more about our values and culture here.

We’re seeking a Design Manager, Brand to join the growing Brand Marketing team at Coinbase. You’ll be both an IC and a lead, managing other designers while designing for critical marketing projects. Your focus will be both on building a brand that speaks to our customers and current/future employees. You are able to translate marketing strategies into exceptional and impactful design that clearly communicates our core messages.

As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for developing and growing our marketing design team - working closely with each designer on career development and personal growth. You’ll also  guide designers towards the best possible design and brand outcomes while staying cognizant of our business needs. You’ll lead by example as you facilitate cross-functional projects and identify opportunities for the brand design team to operate more strategically and effectively at Coinbase. You’ll work closely with the Director of Brand Marketing as you establish brand design excellence and a vision for the future of Coinbase brand.

What you’ll be doing:

• Customer First: Consistently create brand executions (social, events, campaigns etc.) and make judgements that focus on the customer.
• Deliver Results: You work smarter not harder, value completing tasks vs. talking about them and recognize roadblocks in advance - handling any conflict with maturity.
• Operations: Comfortable in developing and managing the design scope of project work and creating prioritization processes.
• Persuade: By using clear communication, conviction and authority, promote and protect brand work internally to champion influence.
• Balance: You’ll be both an IC and a lead, excited to jump in and get your hands dirty designing and art directing  projects.
• Championship team: Set team goals and a vision, holding team to a high quality bar. Manage and mentor a team with candor and kindness, empowering them to do their best work.

What we look for in you:

• 8+ years of proven history building and designing work class brands.
• 1-2 years of experience building and managing design teams.
• Inspire a team strategically and creatively in building the future of the Coinbase brand.

Nice to Haves:

• User of Coinbase products.
  

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to review all of our job postings to minimize biased language. Coinbase does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.