Brand Designer

Ambrook • New York, NY

12d • $125,000 - $195,000

About The Position

Ambrook is hiring a Brand Designer to help evolve its brand and create work across digital and physical formats. Working alongside the Creative Director, the designer will share responsibility for the direction of the brand, turn ideas into finished work, and help build the tools and systems that enable the broader team to produce brand-aligned work. The position spans website, campaigns, lifecycle communications, editorial, merchandise, event experiences, microsites, and brand expressions within the product, as well as new formats and ideas without established precedents.

The Brand Designer will shape narratives and ensure copy, imagery, and composition support the story; make concepts tangible through prototypes and samples; and create work directly or through contractors, teammates, and AI-enabled tools. They will develop reusable templates, skills, and evaluations to reduce repetitive work, direct external creative partners, maintain design libraries, Sanity components, and brand documentation, and work with the Creative Director to advance the brand. The role reports to Ali Aas, Creative Director, within the Brand team, and collaborates closely with Marketing, Product Design, and other cross-functional teams.

Ambrook is a Series B startup rebuilding financial infrastructure for American family-run businesses and independent operators. The company describes its mission as helping these businesses become more profitable and resilient through modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience making brand work; mid-level to senior experience.
• Strong craft and attention to detail.
• A builder's mindset and ability to make ideas real, including learning tools and processes needed for the work.
• Experience and comfort designing across both physical and digital formats.
• Experience building AI workflows and tools that remained in regular use by the candidate and their team.
• Ability to work independently: gather context from data and colleagues, develop an idea into a proposal, and keep people on schedule.

Nice To Haves

• Motion experience, or resourcefulness to learn and produce motion work with an appropriate tool.

Responsibilities

• Shape project narratives with the teams closest to the work, and make copy, imagery, and composition serve those narratives.
• Make concepts tangible through prototypes, mockups, and printed samples.
• Create work across websites, email, editorial, merchandise, event experiences, microsites, product brand moments, and other formats.
• Develop templates, skills, and other scalable approaches so work that can be systematized does not need to be recreated each time.
• Brief and direct illustrators, photographers, printers, and fabricators, and evaluate the work they deliver.
• Maintain brand systems, including design libraries, Sanity components, and brand documentation.
• Help evolve and advance the brand in partnership with the Creative Director.
• Build tools and workflows, including AI-enabled tools, to reduce busywork and help the team produce brand-aligned work.
• Take ideas from an initial concept to finished work, either directly or by enabling teammates, directing contractors, or building agents.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible vacation time
• Flexible work hours
• Work-from-home/remote office stipend or a desk at the New York City, San Francisco, or Denver office
• Wellness stipend
• Professional development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed