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Imprint is a fintech company that modernizes co-branded credit card programs for major brands like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell. The company combines payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and customer data to create smarter, more rewarding card programs that deepen customer loyalty and drive brand growth.
As Design Lead for Credit Cards, you will lead a small team of designers while maintaining hands-on involvement in creative execution. This is a player-coach role where you balance individual design work with team leadership and mentorship. You will serve as the primary creative partner to brand and product stakeholders, translating partner briefs into compelling visual presentations, defending design decisions, and ensuring card programs reflect the brand promise of both Imprint and its partners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a small design team, setting creative standards and providing regular feedback and coaching
- Owning end-to-end creative execution for co-branded card programs from initial brief through final production
- Leading client-facing creative presentations, listening to partner feedback, and confidently presenting design options with clear rationale
- Translating partner briefs into card designs, program toolkits, and visual systems that reflect brand identity and program promise
- Building production-ready mechanicals for card manufacturing that meet specialized credit card print production requirements
- Managing program-level creative thinking across card design, digital wallet, and app contexts
- Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across brand, product, and external partners
- Maintaining quality and consistency across all creative deliverables throughout the program lifecycle
- Participating in production milestones including press checks and printer coordination
In your first 90 days, you will ramp on active programs, contribute to in-flight milestones, build working relationships with your team, establish credibility with clients, demonstrate fluency in print production for card manufacturing, and produce work that reflects program-level thinking.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Demonstrated experience in brand or print design with a strong portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of design projects
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing designers (even informally) with genuine interest in growing people
- Proven ability to present and defend creative work to clients or stakeholders, articulating design rationale across multiple options
- Strong understanding of print production, including preparation and building of mechanicals for commercial printing
- Experience operating at a program level, understanding how a single design asset connects to a broader brand system
- Clear, confident communicator able to translate feedback into actionable creative decisions for clients and team
- Comfort working directly with external partners or clients in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
Nice to Have:
- Experience with credit card or financial product design, including knowledge of card manufacturing processes and specifications
- Familiarity with digital wallet and mobile app design contexts
- Experience building creative toolkits and brand systems beyond individual asset execution
- Background in co-branded or licensed design programs where multiple brand identities must coexist
- Prior experience as a design lead or manager of a small team
