Design Director

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.

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