[Hiring] Brand Designer @Highbeam

Role Description

We're hiring a brand and motion designer to build Highbeam's visual identity from the ground up — and make it move. You'll work closely with product and GTM and work alongside our founders on how the company presents itself. This is a full-stack brand role. Identity, campaigns, motion, illustration: you define them, systematize them, and ship them yourself.

Since we've never hired for this role before, we're hoping this to be a contract to start engagement with the hopes of it converting to full time. Which also means we're open to remote candidates as well.

What you'll work on

• The rebrand:
  • Rebuild the identity from the foundations — type, color, logo, illustration, the visual expression of our voice.
  • Turn it into guidelines and kits the rest of the team can actually use without asking you first.
• Marketing surfaces:
  • highbeam.co, launch campaigns, lifecycle email, social, paid creative, sales and event collateral.
  • Take concepts from idea to shipped, and bring in external partners when the work is bigger than one person.
• Motion:
  • Launch films and social video on the marketing side.
  • Transitions, empty states, onboarding, and Luma's thinking states on the product side.
  • Define how Highbeam moves and hand production-ready assets to engineering.
• Illustration and 3D:
  • Build a visual language for abstract concepts like cash flow, working capital, and ad spend.
  • Create a system that explains these concepts visually.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in brand design, graphic design, or art direction, ideally on consumer or modern tech brands.
• A portfolio with exceptional visual execution across surfaces — web, mobile, social, email, print. A portfolio is required; applications without one won't be reviewed.
• Obsessive about fundamentals: type, layout, color, composition, hierarchy — and able to apply them across disciplines rather than only the one you trained in.
• Real motion chops: After Effects, Cavalry, Rive, or equivalent, with comfort shipping to an engineering team and responding to format, sizing, and performance requirements.

Requirements

• You love working in-person with a high-performing team.
• You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment.
• You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• You care about delivering a polished customer experience.
• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech, AI or early-stage startups.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Comprehensive health & benefits package.
• Generous PTO.
• $1K/year stipend to purchase our customers' products.
• $100/mo wellness stipend.
• Yearly offsite—last year we went to Mexico City!
• In-office perks: Commute covered and $20/day lunch stipend.
• Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near St. Andrew Station.