[Hiring] Staff Brand Designer @TRM Labs

Role Description

This is a role for an experienced visual designer. You’ll own the most complex and high-visibility brand design work at TRM across campaigns, web, social, events, sales and marketing, reports, and every surface brand design touches. You’ll help define what visual excellence looks like as our brand continues to evolve, and you'll raise the quality floor for everyone around you.

You'll lead through the work, through design direction, and through mentorship rather than through direct management. This is an individual-contributor craft role today, but can grow.

What you'll do

• Set and uphold the craft standard for TRM’s brand: across campaigns, web, social, events, thought-leadership reports, and sales and marketing collateral.
• Lead the most complex and high-visibility brand design projects end-to-end, from brief through delivery, at consistently high craft.
• Partner with creative and marketing leadership to evolve TRM’s creative direction: defining and executing visual standards across typography, imagery, layout, and color.
• Translate complex, data-heavy subject matter (blockchain intelligence, investigations, risk) into infographics, data visualizations, and shareable graphics that make dense information land for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Provide hands-on craft oversight across brand output: reviewing work, raising the quality floor, and helping the team make better decisions.
• Build and steward brand systems and documentation that scale across programs, formats, and audiences without losing soul and know when to break the system for the right reason.
• Commission and art-direct external creatives: agencies, illustrators, and motion designers.
• Mentor and elevate other designers through critique, pairing, and direct feedback: raising craft through the work, not just in conversation.
• Advance the team’s AI-native design practice: bringing AI-assisted tools into concepting, iteration, and production, and helping teammates build the same fluency. Human taste and judgment lead. AI extends the range and speed of what we can explore.
• Collaborate with brand strategists, copywriters, product marketing, and leadership on how TRM shows up across every channel.
• Treat briefs as a floor, not a ceiling. Push past them, take big swings, and explore new formats.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of brand design experience, including high-craft environments: agency, editorial, elevated consumer, or design-forward tech.
• A portfolio that is excellent. Work must demonstrate mastery of typography, layout, color, and composition across a range of brand contexts.
• A clear aesthetic point of view: you can articulate what makes something great and what makes something fall short, and you've built that perspective through years of rigorous practice.
• Fluency in brand systems: you understand how to build for scale and consistency, and you've stewarded a brand through growth or change.
• Proven ability to make complex information land: data visualization, infographics, and editorial design that turn dense material into something clear and compelling.
• Experience operating at a staff level: you work autonomously, influence without authority, and make decisions that shape the output of an entire team.
• Deep fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), across both digital and print formats.
• Experience with digital and web design: building component libraries, working with developers.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills: you can communicate the process, intent, and impact of your design decisions with clarity.
• An AI-first mindset: hands-on experience bringing generative AI tools into real creative work, a clear-eyed view of where they help and where they fall short, and a genuine appetite to keep growing those skills as the tools evolve.
• Curiosity, restraint, and a genuine passion for doing work that's worth doing.

Nice to have (plus skills, not requirements)

• Motion design and animation
• 3D design

How to apply

Submit your portfolio along with your application. We'd love to see one or two pieces — ideally publicly available — that show your range across brand design, editorial or program branding, infographics or data visualization, and design-system thinking.

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is $202,000 - $220,000. Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.

Life at TRM

We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.

• TRM moves quickly. We are a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact.
• People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback.
• The problems are complex, the stakes are real, and the environment evolves quickly.
• This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined.
• We recognize that this style of operating is not for everyone.

Join our Mission

At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people.