Brand Designer

Highbeam; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Health & benefits package

Generous PTO

$1K/year stipend to purchase our users

$100/mo wellness stipend

Yearly offsite

Commute covered and lunch stipend

Job summary

Highbeam is hiring a brand and motion designer to build its visual identity from the ground up and make it move. You’ll work closely with product and GTM and collaborate with the founders on how the company presents itself.

This is a full-stack brand role spanning identity, campaigns, motion, and illustration, with ownership over how systems are defined and shipped. Since this is a new role, we’re starting on a contract basis with a goal to convert to full-time and we’re open to remote

Qualifications

• 4+ years in brand design, graphic design, or art direction, ideally on consumer or modern tech brands.
• A portfolio with exceptional visual execution across surfaces — web, mobile, social, email, print.
• Obsessive about fundamentals: type, layout, color, composition, hierarchy.

Responsibilities

• Define and build Highbeam's brand from foundations: type, color, logo, illustration, guidelines.
• Develop marketing surfaces: highbeam.co, campaigns, email, social, paid creative, event collateral.
• Create motion assets: launch films, social videos, transitions, onboarding, production-ready assets for engineers.
• Design illustration and 3D visuals for concepts like cash flow and AI analytics.

Skills

Brand design

Motion design

After Effects

Cavalry

Rive

Portfolio

Tools

After Effects

Cavalry

Rive

Job description

Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management.

Our platform combines AI agents, automated financial workflows, and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.

Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts, Tushy, Rocco, Sabah, Still Here, Alice Mushrooms, Original Grain, birddogs, and more.

Our team includes alumni of Shopify, Square, Toast, Rippling, and McKinsey.

We’ve raised $42M in equity from Acrew, FirstMark, Mayfield, and Two Sigma Ventures.

About this role

We're hiring a brand and motion designer to build Highbeam's visual identity from the ground up — and make it move. You'll work closely product and GTM and work alongside our founders on how the company presents itself. This is a full-stack brand role. Identity, campaigns, motion, illustration: you define them, systematize them, and ship them yourself.
Since we've never hired for this role before we're hoping this to be a contract to start engagement with the hopes of it converting to full time. Which also means we're open to remote candidates as well but would prefer in person.

What you'll work on

• The brand. Highbeam is a serious financial platform that doesn't yet look like one. You'll help build and maintain the identity from the foundations — type, color, logo, illustration, the visual expression of our voice and turn it into guidelines and kits the rest of the team can actually use without asking you first.
  
• Marketing surfaces. highbeam.co, launch campaigns, lifecycle email, social, paid creative, sales and event collateral. You'll take concepts from idea to shipped, and bring in external partners when the work is bigger than one person.
  
• Motion. Launch films and social video on the marketing side; transitions, empty states, onboarding, and Luma's thinking states on the product side. You'll define how Highbeam moves and hand production-ready assets to engineering.
  
• Illustration and 3D. Cash flow, working capital, ad spend, an AI analyst reasoning about someone's money — abstract concepts that need a visual language before they're understandable. You'll build the system that explains them.
  

Who you are

• 4+ years in brand design, graphic design, or art direction, ideally on consumer or modern tech brands. We're open to a wide range of experiences and seniority for the right talent.
  
• A portfolio with exceptional visual execution across surfaces — web, mobile, social, email, print. A portfolio is required; applications without one won't be reviewed.
  
• Obsessive about fundamentals: type, layout, color, composition, hierarchy — and able to apply them across disciplines rather than only the one you trained in.
  
• Real motion chops. After Effects, Cavalry, Rive, or equivalent, with comfort shipping to an engineering team and responding to format, sizing, and performance requirements.

You'll thrive at Highbeam if...

• You love working in-person with a high-performing team
• You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment
• You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast moving environments
• You care about delivering a polished customer experience
• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech, AI or early-stage startups

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health & benefits package
• Generous PTO
• $1K/year stipend to purchase our customers' products
• $100/mo wellness stipend
• Yearly offsite—last year we went to Mexico City!
• In-office perks: Commute covered and $20/day lunch stipend
• Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near St. Andrew Station.