Brand Designer

The role

You will own how Blacksmith looks and sounds across the website, social, events, decks, and swag. You will translate complex technical concepts into visuals and build a flexible visual system.

What you will do

• Own how Blacksmith looks and sounds across every surface: website, social, events, decks, swag and more
• Translate genuinely complex technical concepts into visuals that engage and build credibility with engineers
• Build a flexible visual system that holds up across multiple product lines
• Work directly with the founders and with engineering on launch narratives
• Ship fast and iterate in public
• Raise the bar on craft across the team

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in brand design role
• A portfolio that shows both systems thinking and range across mediums - web, motion, print, and presentation
• Strong typography and layout at its core
• Evidence you've built or meaningfully evolved a brand for a technical product
• The ability to articulate why a design decision is right
• Comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have

• Ideally in developer tools, infrastructure, or at the least in a complex B2B product environment
• Expert at leveraging agentic tools to expedite this process

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
• Competitive base + equity
• 401k match
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual offsite
• Early-exercise stock options
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

About the company

Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads fast using a global fleet of bare-metal machines. The company has raised $125M from investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures (GV) and Peak XV Partners.