Brand Designer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

401(k) with matching contribution

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation time

Flexible work hours

Remote office stipend, or NYC/SF/Denve

Desk at Ambrook's NYC, SF, or Denver

Wellness stipend

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Ambrook, a NYC-based Series B startup, seeks a senior brand designer to shape narrative across website, campaigns, and product. You will lead typography, visual systems, and hands-on production with vendors and internal teams.

Collaborate with Ali Aas, our Creative Director, Marketing, Product Design, and cross-functional teams to deliver brand expressions. Build Claude Skills, templates, and market-ready visuals in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of brand design experience.
• Attention to typography details: kerning, line breaks, whitespace.
• Proficient in Figma, auto layout, components and design systems.
• Experience across print and digital media, across multiple formats.
• Hands-on production, including CMS/codebase involvement, not just sketching.
• Experience with AI tools and building Claude Skills is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Shape the narrative with project teams to craft story, visuals, and layout.
• Show the team what's possible through prototypes, mockups, or samples.
• Make the work across website, email, editorial, merchandise, events, and product.
• Create scalable templates and Claude Skills to automate routine work.
• Direct illustrators, photographers, printers and vendors when needed.
• Maintain brand systems, libraries and documentation.

Skills

Brand design

Figma mastery

Design systems

Typography & layout

Project management

AI-assisted design

Cross-functional collaboration

Content production

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Niteshift

Linear

Jitter

CMS

Job description

Ambrook helps American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient. From volatile markets to climate shifts, independent operators face mounting pressure. While sustainable investments often yield the best long-term returns, they require financial clarity and capital that fragmented legacy systems can’t provide. We are rebuilding the financial infrastructure that real economy operators rely on. By replacing paperwork with modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending, Ambrook gives owners the data they need to prove viability to lenders and the next generation. We empower the stewards of land and labor to make confident investments in their future. We’re a Series B startup backed by Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and leaders at Notion, Gusto, and Vercel. We’re looking for team members to help us untangle the intersection of American industry, climate, and the economy.

The opportunity

A 1954 Census of Agriculture hangs next to our creative director's desk. Well organized, carefully set, with a lovely illustration of America. It's also just a form, made to be filled in and mailed back. Someone decided paperwork was worth that effort.

That's the care we want in the work we do, and here you'd get to work at that standard instead of having to make a case for it. One of our co-founders is a designer. Designer Fund is on our cap table. We've had a creative director since Series A.

What that gets you is a job shaped like this.

• You'd share responsibility for where the brand goes. Working alongside our creative director.

• You'd work across form factors. The standard issue: website, campaigns, lifecycle. And the oddities. We've made zines, newspapers, matchboxes, sweaters. If you can make the case for the impact, we'll make it.

• You'd help work out what a brand team is in the age of AI. We're further along than most and we intend to show the way. You'd build the Claude Skills that scale you, so more of your time goes to work only your brain can shape and your hands can craft.

• You'd have variety and no playbook. If you know how to a novel idea from 0 to 1

You’ll report to Ali Aas, our Creative Director, inside the Brand team, working closely with Marketing, Product Design, and more cross-functional teams.

You’ll own

• Narrative and craft. The bar on both, across the work you're accountable for. Including the work you direct rather than make.

• Getting brand expressions made. Work goes out because you made it, directed a contractor, enabled a teammate, or built the agent that made it. However it happens, it's on you.

• What the team can make without you. The Claude skills, templates, and evals that let anyone at Ambrook produce work that represents the brand well.

• Brand evolution. Working with the creative director to mature and advance the brand, one expression at a time.

Responsibilities

• Shape the narrative. Work with the teams closest to the project to find the story, then make the writing, the images, and the layout serve it.

• Show the team what's possible. Make the abstract tangible. A prototype, a mockup, a printed sample. People commit to things they can see.

• Make the work. Website, email, editorial, merchandise, event experiences, microsites, brand moments inside the product, and whatever the next idea needs. We are a small team, so you'll have your hands in everything.

• Work the way that scales. Some things you make once. Some things should be a template or a Claude Skill so nobody has to ask you next time. Knowing which is which is part of the job.

• Direct the people who make things. Brief our illustrator, photographers, printers, and fabricators, then judge what comes back. Some of the best work here is made by someone else and made right because of you.

• Maintain our brand systems. Our Figma libraries, Sanity components, and brand documentation. They only stay useful if someone tends them.

About you

• Mid-level to senior experience: 4+ years making brand work

• Craft. You fixate on the details. Kerning. Line breaks. Whitespace. The exact right art.

• Figma master. You know auto layout, use components and design systems, and now leverage the agent to handle the busywork (like cleaning up layer names) as well as the reach work (like animating your work with Figma Motion).

• Range across physical and digital. Print production, merchandise, and environmental work on one side. Web, email, and other digital marketing on the other. You've shipped both.

• You are a builder. You don't just sketch, you make things real. Into the CMS, into the codebase with Claude Code or Niteshift, on a call with a print vendor about ink coverage.

• You've built with AI, not just used it. Tell us what you automated and what you did with the time it gave back. If you've written a Claude Skill, send it.

• Exceptional project management. You organize yourself and the people around you. Set deadlines and milestones, keep vendors on schedule, and work in Linear or something like it without being asked.

• Comfortable with ambiguity. You take the seed of an idea and gather context and requirements from data, the team, and other sources to determine and propose the best path forward.

• Collaborative by nature. Brand touches every team here. You work well across disciplines to get things done.

• Bonus: Experience with motion, or scrappy enough to work with tools like Figma Motion or Jitter that make it possible.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible vacation time
• Flexible work hours
• Work-from-home/remote office stipend, or a desk at Ambrook's NYC, SF, or Denver office
• Wellness stipend
• Professional development stipend

Our values

• Reach Understanding. We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world.
• Real Talk. We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable.
• Be Proactively Resourceful. We are internally motivated and externally empowered to identify opportunities and solve problems.
• Derisk Thoughtfully. We lean into the biggest risks we face as a company and put in the work to address them systematically.
• Find the Positive-Sum. We believe in creating incentive structures that align the needs of our company, our customers, and our planet.