Senior Brand Designer | Avride

The role

The Senior Brand Designer will develop a comprehensive visual system and brand identity for autonomous vehicles. This role involves branding robots and cars, designing digital and print materials, and creating high-stakes investor decks.

What you will do

• Enhance and develop the existing brand identity into a comprehensive visual system.
• Create communication templates for non-design colleagues.
• Brand the robots and the cars including livery and hardware branding.
• Create content for OLED/LED screens on robots.
• Test work on hardware in the Austin garage and manage on-site production.
• Write guidelines for partner advertising on robots.
• Design the website, PR, marketing materials, editorial, and social formats.
• Build high-stakes decks for keynotes and investors.
• Create basic 3D visuals.
• Art-direct photo and video and direct specialists for motion and high-end 3D.

Required qualifications

• Strong composition, typography and colour.
• Experience with brand systems and guidelines.
• Range in print, outdoor, editorial, social, web and decks.
• Understanding of motion to direct it.
• Basic hands-on 3D, or a real wish to learn it.
• Ability to get consistent, good-quality photography shots.
• Ability to set the direction of work.
• Comfort with speed and many requesters.
• Confidence with strong opinions.
• Strong spoken and written English.
• US work authorization.
• Ability to work from Austin, TX.

Nice to have

• Taken part in a rebrand or built a brand system at an agency.
• Art-directed shoots or worked closely with photo and video production.
• Worked on physical products, vehicles, robotics or hardware, or at an AV company.
• A tech startup background.
• Interest in product design, for example the passenger screen in the robotaxi.
• A habit of automating routine work, including AI-assisted decks.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity.
• The first brand role at the company.
• Real robots and cars to design for and test on.
• A lot of independence, light approvals and fast shipping to production.
• A flexible schedule with no fixed hours.

Before you apply

• Avride can't sponsor new visas.

About the company

Avride builds autonomous driving technology for sidewalk delivery robots and robotaxis. The company is based in Austin.