Job Overview

Global Brand, Lead Designer
Global Brand & External Communications Center of Excellence

Fully remote: Ideally in EST North America, US

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an experienced, highly autonomous Lead Designer to help steward and activate TE Connectivity's global brand. This hybrid role combines hands-on design, art direction, creative project leadership, brand governance, and stakeholder consultation.

As part of a lean Global Brand Creative team, you will support high-visibility initiatives across business units, corporate functions, executive leadership, and external stakeholders. You will be equally comfortable creating and refining design work, directing agencies and vendors, advising stakeholders, and supporting projects from concept through final delivery.

This role requires strong visual judgment, excellent communication skills, sound decision-making, and a passion for protecting and evolving a global brand while helping the Center of Excellence achieve its goals.

Job Responsibilites

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead Creative Execution & Art Direction

• Partner with the Head of Brand Creative to deliver high-quality creative solutions across enterprise initiatives.
• Provide hands-on design support when needed, including concept development, production, editing, and final asset creation.
• Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback to internal teams and external partners.
• Review creative work for visual excellence, strategic alignment, accessibility, and brand compliance.
• Present and defend creative and brand recommendations to both creative and non-creative audiences.

Steward & Evolve the Brand

• Serve as a trusted brand advisor to stakeholders across business units and enterprise functions.
• Apply and interpret brand guidelines across diverse channels, audiences, and use cases.
• Help maintain and evolve brand standards, templates, tools, resources, and self-service materials.
• Balance business needs with brand consistency while providing practical, solution-oriented guidance.
• Identify opportunities to improve brand processes, education, governance, and scalability.

Educate & Enable Others

• Guide internal teams, agencies, and vendors in understanding and applying the brand.
• Support onboarding and education efforts for creative partners.
• Encourage adoption of approved tools, templates, and resources.
• Act as a collaborative brand ambassador while reinforcing governance and standards.

Support Projects & Stakeholder Engagement

• Manage multiple brand creative initiatives simultaneously.
• Help coordinate stakeholders, timelines, feedback, and approvals to keep creative projects moving forward.
• Communicate project priorities, risks, dependencies, and recommendations effectively.

What your background should look like

EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Visual Communications or related; those with equivalent experience will also be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in brand design, visual communications, art direction, or a related discipline.
• Experience operating at a senior designer, lead designer, or associate art director level.
• Proven ability to manage creative work across multiple stakeholders, channels, and formats.
• Experience partnering with agencies, freelancers, vendors, and production teams.
• Experience in a global B2B, corporate, or enterprise environment preferred – working in a highly-matrixed environment
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concept development, design excellence, and brand-system thinking.

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Creative and technical capabilities

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
• Ability to directly edit and refine creative work, not solely review or coordinate it.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, including executive-level presentations and template-based design.
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, color, imagery, and production fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of motion, video, digital, social, environmental, or experiential design is a plus.
• Ability to evaluate creative work holistically while also identifying detailed execution issues.

Communication and collaboration

• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Ability to explain creative and brand decisions clearly to executives, business leaders, non-designers, agencies, and production partners.
• Strong interpersonal judgment and the confidence to recommend, redirect, or respectfully challenge when work is not aligned.
• Collaborative and service-oriented, while able to maintain clear standards and boundaries.
• Comfortable presenting work, gathering feedback, facilitating decisions, and managing revisions.

How you work

• Highly organized and dependable, with strong follow-through and attention to detail.
• Highly self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working with limited oversight.
• Able to reprioritize daily as planned work, urgent requests, and emerging enterprise initiatives compete for attention.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating structure where a process may not yet exist.
• Able to shift between strategic thinking, stakeholder consultation, project coordination, and detailed execution.
• Able to make sound decisions efficiently without requiring constant validation.
• Curious, resourceful, and motivated to develop a deep understanding of the organization and its brand.
• Comfortable working as part of a lean team with broad enterprise responsibility and high visibility.

Key Performance Indicators

• Creative Quality & Brand Consistency
• On-Time Project Delivery
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Effectiveness
• Brand Stewardship & Stakeholder Enablement

Success Measures

• Delivers high-quality, brand-aligned creative solutions for high-visibility initiatives.
• Successfully manages multiple projects while driving alignment, decisions, and timely delivery.
• Provides clear, practical brand guidance that helps stakeholders and partners produce stronger, more consistent work.
• Builds trusted relationships across the organization and operates independently with minimal oversight.
• Contributes to scalable brand resources, processes, and tools that improve efficiency and adoption.

Travel

·       less than 10%