Designer (Product + Brand)
About The Position
depthfirst is on a mission to secure the world’s software by building intelligent security agents that detect and remediate critical vulnerabilities. The founding team has deep expertise in AI, security, data, and infrastructure. They are looking for driven individuals excited to work at the intersection of AI, security, and infrastructure. This role is for a Designer who will help shape both the company's products and its public presence. It's a flexible position for someone whose strengths may lean towards product design, brand design, or a combination of both. The company values exceptional craft, strong judgment, and the ability to apply these to ambitious, unfamiliar problems. Depending on the candidate's strengths and interests, they may focus on designing core product experiences, creating brand and marketing materials, or a mix of both. On the product side, the designer will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI researchers to make complex security systems intuitive, trustworthy, and powerful. On the brand side, they will translate technical ideas into clear, compelling stories for launches, campaigns, events, and customer interactions. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership, where the designer will help define product direction, communication strategies, and the evolution of the design language as the company grows.
Requirements
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and thoughtful problem-solving in product design, brand design, or both.
- Strong visual design fundamentals and close attention to detail.
- The ability to turn complex or technical ideas into clear, intuitive experiences or compelling visual stories.
- A high level of ownership and comfort working through ambiguity.
- Strong collaboration and communication.
Nice To Haves
- 4+ years of experience in product, brand, visual, interaction, marketing, or multidisciplinary design. Level and scope can flex based on experience.
- Experience designing AI products, technical tools, or other novel systems where established patterns do not yet exist.
- Experience contributing to a design system, component library, or scalable brand system.
- The ability to prototype in code to accelerate design and development workflows.
- Experience creating work across websites, launches, campaigns, editorial content, events, or customer-facing materials.
- A track record of raising the bar for quality, clarity, and craft.
Responsibilities
- Design product experiences from ambiguous problem brief through polished execution, that help people understand, investigate, and act on complex code security, transparency systems, and knowledge work.
- Translate complex ideas in AI and security into experiences and narratives that feel clear, engaging, and approachable.
- Create brand work across our website, product launches, campaigns, sales materials, events, editorial content, company storytelling, and out-of-home advertising.
- Build and evolve shared product and brand systems that help the company move quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Prototype and iterate on ideas at the level of fidelity needed to make good decisions.
- Collaborate closely with design, engineering, product, research, marketing, go-to-market as applicable.
- Contribute beyond your primary discipline when a project benefits from it, with support from the broader design team.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Office lunch and dinner when working from our San Francisco office
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
