Brand Designer

Traversal

• $125K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of brand, visual, or multidisciplinary design experience, ideally in high-growth tech or creative sectors.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing visual craft and brand judgment, especially in typography and composition.
  • Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Google Slides; openness to using preferred tools.
  • Deep expertise in select brand design areas with a willingness to tackle unfamiliar formats.
  • Experience in diverse branding contexts: social media, marketing collateral, events, and physical installations.
  • Ability to incorporate product elements into branded content, including lightweight motion and video creation.
  • Skilled at managing multiple, fast-paced projects and interested in generative AI for creative scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Bring the brand to life across various digital and physical channels, from product launches to social media and sales materials.
  • Design high-quality marketing materials like decks, one-pagers, and case studies for customer presentation.
  • Create compelling social media content, including graphics and motion visuals.
  • Develop creative concepts for physical brand experiences, trade show designs, and outdoor advertising.
  • Evolve the brand's visual identity while maintaining consistency across all initiatives.
  • Experiment with generative AI tools to enhance brand work's speed, quality, and reach.
  • Collaborate with Marketing and Sales to manage fast-moving creative projects from concept to delivery.
  • Contribute ideas that extend beyond visual design, shaping unique campaigns and activations.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity opportunities.
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • Supportive startup culture promoting innovative design solutions.
  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and creativity in a dynamic company.
Full Job Description
The Role

As our first internal Brand Designer, you will help shape how Traversal shows up visually across every touchpoint, from social media and product launches to sales materials, events, out-of-home campaigns, swag, and more.

This role is ideal for a multidisciplinary designer with exceptional visual craft who wants to work across many areas of brand rather than stay in one lane. We don't expect you to have mastered every design discipline; we do expect you to be exceptional in a few, with the curiosity and resourcefulness to learn new skills quickly when a project calls for them. You'll take ownership of a wide variety of fast-moving creative projects and help build the systems and AI-powered tools that allow us to produce great work at scale.

For someone interested in stretching beyond visual design, there will also be plenty of room to think about the broader brand experience, from brainstorming campaigns and activations to contributing ideas for how Traversal can show up and stand out.

Responsibilities
  • Bring the Traversal brand to life across a wide range of digital and physical touchpoints, from product launches and social media to sales collateral and physical brand experiences
  • Design high-quality sales and marketing collateral, including decks, one-pagers, case studies, templates, and other customer-facing materials
  • Create compelling social content across formats, including graphics, carousels, product visuals, and lightweight motion and video
  • Design creative for physical and out-of-home brand experiences, including trade show booths, signage, swag, billboards, and subway ads
  • Evolve Traversal's visual identity while building and maintaining the systems, templates, and guidelines that keep the brand distinctive and consistent across touchpoints
  • Experiment with and build generative AI tools and workflows that increase the speed, quality, and scale of brand work across the company
  • Manage a range of fast-moving creative projects and priorities, partnering with Marketing, Sales, and other teams from concept through delivery
  • Contribute ideas beyond visual design, helping shape campaigns, activations, social concepts, and other creative ways to make the Traversal brand stand out
Requirements
  • 3-5 years of experience in brand, visual, or multidisciplinary design, ideally at a high-growth technology company, startup, or creative agency
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent visual craft and brand judgment, including exceptional attention to typography, hierarchy, composition, and detail and the ability to turn loosely defined ideas into polished work
  • Fluency with tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Google Slides, with flexibility to bring your own preferred tools and workflows
  • Deep expertise in a few areas of brand design, paired with the versatility and curiosity to take on unfamiliar formats and quickly learn what you don't already know
  • Experience across some combination of social, presentations, marketing collateral, events, out-of-home, and physical brand experiences
  • Experience incorporating product UI, screenshots, and recordings into compelling brand and social content, with the ability to create lightweight motion and simple video
  • Comfort managing multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-moving environment, with an interest in using and building generative AI tools to scale creative work
Nice to Have
  • Experience contributing to broader brand marketing initiatives, such as integrated campaigns, brand activations, partnerships, or other creative programs
  • Strong instincts for social media and ideas for how brands can show up in distinctive, culturally relevant ways
  • Copywriting or messaging experience, particularly developing creative concepts that bring together words and visuals
  • Deeper motion design, animation, or video editing experience
  • Web design experience, particularly working within an established brand system
  • Industry experience in AI, infrastructure, developer tools, cloud, observability, cybersecurity, or enterprise software

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $125,000 - $150,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role. Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

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