Design Director
- Role
- Design
- Experience
- Lead
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
Open to US only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Design leader with 8+ years in brand identity, visual systems, campaigns, and creative direction. Must be hands-on, strong in brand strategy-to-execution, comfortable in fast-paced startups, fully remote with global travel as needed. No visa sponsorship.
About the Role
We're an early-stage ambient AI startup building a continuous intelligence system that seamlessly integrates into daily life — helping people offload routine tasks and reclaim their focus for what matters most. We're looking for a Design Director to shape how our company is seen and experienced across every touchpoint.
This is a hands-on creative and strategic role with real influence over brand direction. You'll translate brand strategy into compelling visual systems, campaigns, and narratives that shape company perception and drive business goals — with strong potential for leadership growth as the team scales.
This position is fully remote with flexibility to travel globally as needed. Visa sponsorship is not available.
What You'll Do
- Develop and continuously evolve the company's visual identity across brand, marketing, product, communications, and content channels.
- Translate brand strategy into visuals, campaigns, narratives, and customer experiences that resonate deeply.
- Create high-quality visual assets including launch materials, presentations, campaign creative, social content, web pages, and brand collateral.
- Build design concepts that make complex technology feel clear, accessible, and culturally relevant.
- Shape visual storytelling for key company moments and establish scalable design principles that ensure consistent branding.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Leadership to align design execution with broader business goals.
- Bring strong taste and strategic judgment to influence how the company is perceived in market.
What We're Looking For
Required
- 8+ years of design experience specializing in brand identity, visual systems, campaigns, and creative direction.
- Demonstrated ability to translate brand strategy into visual systems, campaign narratives, and end-to-end customer experiences.
- Proficiency creating polished, production-ready assets across launch materials, presentations, social, web, and brand content.
- Experience developing and evolving visual identity systems across multiple channels simultaneously.
- Ability to establish design principles and visual storytelling frameworks that scale across an organization.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills — comfortable working alongside Marketing, Product, Brand, and executive Leadership.
- Deep understanding of how brand strategy shapes market perception and product experience.
- Portfolio demonstrating the combination of strategic thinking and hands-on design execution.
- Proven comfort thriving in fast-paced startup environments with high design standards.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with luxury, DTC (direct-to-consumer), wellness, or technology brands.
- Experience making complex or emerging technology feel approachable and culturally resonant through design.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $150,000 – $170,000 USD annually
- Fully remote role with global travel flexibility
- High-impact, high-visibility position at an early-stage company with significant growth potential
Location
This role is fully remote. Candidates must be willing and able to travel globally on an as-needed basis. Visa sponsorship is not available.
What you'll do
- Develop and continuously evolve the company's visual identity across brand, marketing, product, communications, and content channels.
- Translate brand strategy into visuals, campaigns, narratives, and customer experiences that resonate deeply.
- Create high-quality visual assets including launch materials, presentations, campaign creative, social content, web pages, and brand collateral.
- Build design concepts that make complex technology feel clear, accessible, and culturally relevant.
- Shape visual storytelling for key company moments and establish scalable design principles that ensure consistent branding.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Leadership to align design execution with broader business goals.
- Bring strong taste and strategic judgment to influence how the company is perceived in market.
What they require
- 8+ years of design experience specializing in brand identity, visual systems, campaigns, and creative direction.
- Demonstrated ability to translate brand strategy into visual systems, campaign narratives, and end-to-end customer experiences.
- Proficiency creating polished, production-ready assets across launch materials, presentations, social, web, and brand content.
- Experience developing and evolving visual identity systems across multiple channels simultaneously.
- Ability to establish design principles and visual storytelling frameworks that scale across an organization.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills — comfortable working alongside Marketing, Product, Brand, and executive Leadership.
- Deep understanding of how brand strategy shapes market perception and product experience.
- Portfolio demonstrating the combination of strategic thinking and hands-on design execution.
- Proven comfort thriving in fast-paced startup environments with high design standards.
- Must be willing and able to travel globally on an as-needed basis.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
- Preferred: Prior experience with luxury, DTC (direct-to-consumer), wellness, or technology brands.
- Preferred: Experience making complex or emerging technology feel approachable and culturally resonant through design.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global travel flexibility.
- High-impact, high-visibility position at an early-stage company with significant growth potential.
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