Brand Designer

Aaru•New York, NY

16h•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of Aaru’s Design team, the Brand Designer will help users make decisions faster by building the brand that carries Aaru into the market and bringing it to life across the product, the web, and other surfaces. The Design team owns every surface a customer, prospect, or candidate touches. The role works with the Head of Marketing and Head of Design in a small, mission-driven team that values ownership, trust, urgency, intellectual honesty, curiosity, and demonstrable impact. The position is based in New York City and is in person five days a week. Candidates are expected to live in the New York City metropolitan area or be open to relocating.

Requirements

Thrive in ambiguous and novel technical domains.
Value feedback more than conformity.
Be able to explain and defend design choices.
Use AI tools extensively while maintaining independent design judgment and taste.
Work quickly and recognize when to slow down for polish.
Communicate clearly in writing and in person.
Be willing to push back and humble enough to change your mind.

Nice To Haves

Have released personal products or previously led product design.
Have owned a brand redesign or rebrand, including selecting and managing agencies.
Have built or relaunched a brand at a fast-growing technology company.
Have motion design sensibility.
Have brought a brand system into a working product experience.

Responsibilities

Design and ship brand work daily across web, social, presentations, and print.
Build a brand system that scales across new surfaces without becoming stale.
Lead launches and campaigns end to end with the Head of Marketing.
Partner with Product Designers and Design Engineers to bring the brand into the product.
Enable people across Aaru to produce on-brand work without requiring design involvement.
Help select and manage external agencies when needed.