Founding Brand Designer, Santa Clara

About Us
We're building an AI-native platform to help teams hire exceptional talent — faster, more accurately, and with significantly less manual work.
In the age of AI, human ingenuity is the ultimate scarce resource.
Recruiting is a zero-sum game: you either compete — or you lose.
Our product helps companies win by turning sourcing, evaluation, and hiring workflows into a modern, scalable system.
We're a venture-backed, high-growth SaaS company with strong traction across high-performing teams — from early-stage startups to large enterprises — and we're growing quickly.
The Opportunity
We're hiring a Founding Brand Designer to define how a high-growth AI company shows up in the world — visually, verbally, and emotionally across every customer, candidate, and market touchpoint.
This isn't a traditional brand design role.
In this high-ownership, 0?1 seat, you'll build the foundation of the company's brand from the ground up: what it stands for, how it communicates, and how it expresses itself across product storytelling, campaigns, content, sales materials, events, and digital experiences.
The company has built strong momentum through product-led growth and word of mouth, with a premium product experience that needs to be matched by an equally thoughtful, differentiated, and consistent brand.
As the business scales, brand will play a critical role in shaping how the market understands the company — and how the company understands itself.
This role is ideal for someone who is both strategic and hands-on: someone who can define brand principles and creative direction, but also execute the details that bring that vision to life.
Location:
San Francisco, CA — in-person
What You'll Do
Own and evolve the company's brand identity across voice, visuals, tone, and overall market presence
Audit the current brand and identify what is working, what needs to change, and where there are opportunities to create a more distinct and premium experience
Define clear brand principles, visual systems, and creative standards that can scale across teams and channels
Partner closely with marketing, product, sales, leadership, and external vendors to bring the brand to life across every touchpoint
Translate product and company narratives into compelling visual storytelling across campaigns, content, web, sales collateral, video, events, and customer-facing materials
Work with content marketing to shape high-quality assets, including thought leadership, launch moments, social content, campaigns, and video concepts
Ensure the brand shows up consistently and effectively across GTM motions, including sales decks, customer communications, influencer campaigns, and partnership initiatives
Build the creative foundation for a company that is scaling quickly, while helping align internal stakeholders around a unified brand direction
Who You Are
You're a strong brand thinker and visual storyteller who can take complex ideas and turn them into a clear, memorable, and premium brand experience
You have strong instincts for visual identity, brand systems, positioning, and creative direction
You can operate both strategically and hands-on — equally comfortable defining the brand foundation and executing high-quality design work
You're able to translate company and product narratives into compelling creative across multiple formats and channels
You have strong taste, high standards, and an ability to create work that feels polished, differentiated, and commercially effective
You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from scratch in a fast-moving environment
You collaborate well across functions and can influence stakeholders around a clear creative direction
Requirements
3+ years of experience in brand design, brand marketing, creative strategy, visual design, or a similar role
Strong portfolio demonstrating brand identity, visual systems, campaign work, and/or storytelling across multiple channels
Deep understanding of brand voice, positioning, visual identity, and how brand shows up across a company's full customer journey
Ability to move between strategy and execution, from defining creative direction to designing polished assets
Experience partnering cross-functionally with marketing, product, sales, leadership, and/or external vendors
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Willingness to work in-office 5 days per week in San Francisco
Nice to Have
Experience at a startup, B2B SaaS company, AI company, or premium technology brand
Experience as an early or founding brand/design hire
Experience building brand systems from scratch or evolving a brand during a period of rapid growth
Experience supporting product launches, campaigns, content marketing, video, influencer/partnership campaigns, or sales enablement
Experience working with product-led growth businesses and audiences ranging from individual users to enterprise buyers
If you're excited to define the creative foundation of a category-defining AI company and build a brand that feels as premium as the product itself, we'd love to connect.