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Tala is an AI-native credit infrastructure platform serving the global majority, having distributed over $7 billion in capital to 13+ million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The company combines proprietary risk intelligence with a network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. Backed by $500M+ in funding and recognized by CNBC, Forbes, and other leading publications, Tala is building trust and credit infrastructure for underserved populations worldwide.
As Senior Visual Brand Designer, you will manage Tala's established global brand identity by continually elevating visual design systems, standards, and guidelines while incorporating new sub-brand architectures. You'll partner with internal stakeholders across the organization to produce visual design creative—including icons, animated GIFs/videos, illustrations, and digital marketing campaigns—across all channels: ads, social media, email, and more. You serve as a steward of brand integrity, ensuring consistency and quality across every team and touchpoint that represents Tala.
Your responsibilities include designing and delivering a wide range of creative assets while maintaining consistency with brand and style guidelines, using data and performance learnings to inform the creative process and sharpen final designs. You'll generate fresh creative ideas, inspire teammates, and give and receive feedback with respect and openness. You'll self-manage across multiple deadlines and priorities, keeping projects moving forward independently while working across timezones managing key relationships in the Americas.
Tala operates on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ), Nairobi, Kenya, Mexico City, Mexico, Manila, the Philippines, and Bangalore, India.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience in graphic design, animation, or illustration
- Proven command of design principles, typography, color theory, and conceptual thinking
- Track record of managing brand identity and designing visual systems; experience with technology brands highly favored
- International experience preferred, either working on a US brand or regional multinational brands where you have translated ideas and design across cultures
- Strong skills in graphic design, plus either 2D animation or illustration
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator
- Exceptional portfolio showcasing refined design and typographic sensibility
- Experience working with consumer brands and B2B, either in-house or at an advertising agency
- Deep customer empathy and strong sense of how design decisions impact people
- Experience working within brand guidelines while adapting creative to fit evolving marketing needs across online and offline, owned and paid channels
- Experience with Premiere Pro and After Effects is a plus
- Comfortable with Slack, Jira, and Google Workspace, across timezones managing key relationships in the Americas
- Collaborative, curious, and fun—you thrive working across teams with passionate people who believe in Tala's mission
