Senior Brand Designer

Gallatin•Washington, DC

21h•$168,000 - $199,000

About The Position

Gallatin is seeking a Senior Brand Designer to create brand and content work for product marketing and the corporate brand, serving audiences inside and outside the company. The role includes producing graphics that explain products to military decision-makers, presentations for program offices, materials for major defense conferences, and branded team merchandise. The work is initially hands-on and high-volume, with a longer-term shift toward creating templates and reviewing work produced by others. The designer will create accurate, clear product diagrams and marketing collateral; maintain the corporate brand across digital, presentation, event, and physical materials; and deliver assets for major company announcements, conferences, and customer briefings. The role will also establish reusable presentation and design systems, produce internal communications materials, develop templates and AI-assisted workflows, manage design intake and prioritization, and oversee external creative partners when work is outsourced. Gallatin is a Series A company building AI systems and logistics infrastructure for U.S. national security missions and allied partners. The position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance and to work in a classified environment when necessary. Occasional travel for conferences, events, and customer meetings is expected.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship, required for work on defense programs.
At least 6 years of brand or visual design experience, in-house or agency, including work owned from brief through production.
A portfolio demonstrating identity systems and templates that other people used successfully, not only finished pieces.
Strong visual and typographic craft.
Ability to explain design decisions to non-designers, in writing and in person.
Track record of owning ambiguous, multi-stakeholder work with minimal direction.
Experience translating technical or complex information into clear diagrams and explanatory graphics.
Fluency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Production knowledge, including print and large-format specifications, color management, and preparing files for printers and manufacturers.
Good judgment about how to allocate time across a pipeline of work with mixed urgency.
Willingness to travel occasionally for conferences, events, and customer meetings.

Nice To Haves

Experience producing operational graphics for DoD or other government audiences.
Background in defense, aerospace, or government technology.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design and production workflows.
Illustration or 3D rendering of platforms, equipment, and environments in a consistent style.
Motion design experience or ability to direct short-form video.
Experience as a first or early design hire, with a clear view of what you would do differently next time.
Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Produce OV-1s, concept-of-operations graphics, and system diagrams explaining how Gallatin products fit into missions, with accuracy for military subject-matter experts and clarity for general officers.
Create product marketing collateral, including one-pagers, solution briefs, launch assets, and proposal graphics.
Keep product marketing aligned with Gallatin's corporate brand while allowing each product to stand on its own.
Maintain and extend brand guidelines across web, proposals, events, and physical goods.
Deliver design assets for funding announcements, major conferences, and customer briefings, working directly with the leadership team.
Design social content for contract wins, product milestones, hiring, and company news.
Produce conference booths, signage, swag, and merchandise from concept through vendor quality assurance and production-ready files.
Build organization-wide presentation templates, type and color systems, and reusable imagery, icon, and diagram libraries.
Produce internal brand and content materials, including all-hands materials, recruiting assets, and company announcements.
Turn repeatable production into templates and AI-assisted workflows.
Set up and run the intake and prioritization process for design requests.
Brief and critique external partners when work is outsourced, and own the quality of their deliverables.