Brand Designer

Brand Designer Location: Austin, Texas (must be onsite)
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports To: CEO with direct connection to the Sr. Marketing Specialist
Security Clearance: Eligibility to obtain a security clearance is required
Compensation: Salary + equity

About the Company

Our client is a startup building proprietary targeting software for unmanned systems. Manufacturers integrate this software directly onto UAVs, USVs, UUVs, and other unmanned vehicles, where it runs on the vehicle's onboard computer.
This software detects, classifies, and tracks targets from onboard cameras, maintains persistent target identity when video degrades or breaks up, and can execute terminal guidance through to impact. It is built to keep operating in contested environments: when GPS is denied and communications links are jammed.
Our client has previously held Department of War (DoW) contracts, including work with Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

Position Summary

Our client is hiring its first dedicated designer to set the future brand direction across all digital and physical media. Working with the executive team and marketing team, you will own the company's visual identity, from the brand book through the marketing site, product pages, operator app UI, trade-show booths, and merchandise. You must be comfortable designing for a technical defense product and explaining your choices to founders and engineers without design jargon.

What You'll Produce:

• Brand book and guidelines.
• Presentation decks.
• Video artifacts and assets.
• Social and campaign graphics.
• The marketing site.
• Product pages.
• The operator app UI for our client's flagship AI product.
• Trade-show booths and banners.
• Digital and physical one-pagers.
• Merchandise.

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of professional experience as a designer (brand, visual, product, or hybrid), with shipped work in both digital and physical media.
• A portfolio of shipped work: decks or presentations, web or product UI, and some print, booth, or environmental pieces.
• Ability to design for a technical B2B or defense/dual-use product and explain choices to founders and engineers without design jargon.
• Experience working with marketing, and with founders acting as marketing, on campaigns, events, and a brand system.
• Experience building digital pages with AI, such as standalone landing pages, product pages, a marketing site, or similar campaign pages.
• Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and Photoshop, from concept through production files.
• This role is on-site in Austin, Texas.
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)). This role may work with export-controlled technology and controlled messaging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a defense, dual-use, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, or deep-tech company, or at an agency whose clients were in those spaces.
• Prior or current title as Brand Designer, Visual Designer, Creative Designer, or a similar hybrid role.
• Experience with marketing-site layout systems, component pages, and light UI polish for an operator or enterprise app.
• Illustrator and InDesign for one-pagers, booth graphics, and merchandise.
• Relationships with printers, booth fabricators, or production partners you would bring with you.
• Presentation templates and masters in Google Slides and current AI presentation tools.
• Short-form motion for social and campaigns in After Effects or Jitter.
• Experience designing brand books and guidelines.
• Enough front-end literacy to build marketing and landing pages on your own.

What Success Looks Like

• A complete brand book and guidelines adopted across the company.
• A consistent, credible visual identity across the marketing site, product pages, decks, social, and events.
• Trade-show, print, and merchandise materials delivered on time and on brand.