Senior Brand Designer | Avride

hirehire•Austin, TX

16d•Onsite

About The Position

Avride is hiring its first dedicated brand designer to turn its existing logo, color palette, and font into a comprehensive visual identity system. The role supports a fast-growing autonomous-driving company whose sidewalk delivery robots and robotaxis operate in the United States. The team is based in Austin, Texas, with robots and cars available nearby for design testing. The designer will create a consistent brand experience across physical vehicles and hardware, websites, public relations and marketing materials, social and editorial content, and high-stakes investor and keynote presentations. The role includes hands-on design, on-site production and testing, brand guidelines, photography and video direction, and basic 3D work. The position is approximately 80% hands-on design and 20% coordination of specialist work. It offers substantial independence and a flexible schedule with no fixed hours.

Requirements

Demonstrated senior design craft, including strong composition, typography, and color.
Experience creating brand systems, with a portfolio showing guidelines that other people have used.
Experience across print and outdoor, editorial, social, web, and presentations.
Sufficient understanding of motion design to direct motion work.
Basic hands-on 3D experience or a genuine willingness to learn 3D.
A strong eye for photography and the ability to produce consistent, good-quality shots without a large production.
Ownership of creative direction, rather than experience limited to executing others' direction.
Comfort working quickly and handling requests from many stakeholders.
Confidence in discussing and defending design opinions, or committing to decisions once made.
Strong spoken and written English.
US work authorization and ability to work from Austin, Texas; Avride cannot sponsor new visas.

Nice To Haves

Participation in a rebrand or experience building a brand system at an agency.
Experience art-directing shoots or working closely with photo and video production.
Experience with physical products, vehicles, robotics, hardware, or an autonomous-vehicle company.
Experience at a technology startup.
Interest in product design, such as the passenger screen in a robotaxi.
A habit of automating routine work, including AI-assisted presentations.

Responsibilities

Enhance and develop Avride's existing brand identity into a comprehensive visual system.
Create communication templates that enable non-design colleagues to build layouts, while developing more unconventional formats as needed.
Brand robots and cars through livery, hardware branding points, and content for robot OLED/LED screens and potentially next-generation car screens.
Test designs on physical vehicles and robots in the Austin garage, and coordinate printing and production on site.
Write guidelines with the business development team for partner advertising on robots.
Design the website, PR and marketing materials, and editorial and social formats to ensure consistent branding across launches and new cities.
Create end-to-end keynote and investor presentations, including handling sensitive figures.
Create basic 3D visuals, including specifications for visuals on robots and cars.
Art-direct photo and video work with limited resources, and document guidance for photographing robots and cars for press.
Find, brief, and direct specialists for complex motion and high-end 3D work.
Prioritize requests with the manager and push back when necessary.