Brand Designer II

Front Door Defense; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off (20+ days)

Meal perks onsite

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Vast is seeking a versatile Brand Designer II to Own and evolve Vast's design system, delivering cross-channel visuals for Haven Station from Long Beach, CA. This full-time role reports into the Senior Director, Brand Design and involves working on events, presentations, RFPs, and key art.

You'll transform strategy into compelling creative, maintain brand consistency, and collaborate with stakeholders while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of brand design experience across a variety of project types and formats.
• Portfolio showing range: brand systems, campaigns, presentations, event or environmental graphics, and production-ready work.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), plus Figma and Google Workspace.
• Strong typography, layout, color, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to think conceptually and systematically.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design across a broad mix of projects: events, presentations, RFPs, illustrations, graphics, and key art
• Work within and extend our design system, proposing improvements where you see gaps
• Create high-quality layouts, typography systems, and visual assets
• Translate strategy and messaging into clear, compelling creative
• Jump into production work when priorities demand it, without treating it as someone else's job
• Maintain brand consistency and quality across all touchpoints
• Present work and rationale clearly to stakeholders
• Manage multiple fast-moving projects at once and keep the work orderly

Skills

Brand design

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Typography & layout

Visual storytelling

Presentation design

Time management

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Google Workspace

Job description

Brand Designer II

Own and evolve Vast's design system, delivering cross-channel brand visuals for Haven Station

Location: Long Beach, California

Compensation: $96,000 - 173,000 USD / year

About The Role

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo's 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world's first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America's next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.

Vast is looking for a versatile Brand Designer reporting into the Senior Director, Brand Design, who can move across a wide range of projects and formats without losing quality or momentum. One week that might be event graphics, the next a presentation system, key art, or an RFP layout. This role is rooted in strong brand design craft and the range to apply it anywhere.

This will be a full-time, fixed term exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

• Design across a broad mix of projects: events, presentations, RFPs, illustrations, graphics, and key art
• Work within and extend our design system, proposing improvements where you see gaps
• Create high-quality layouts, typography systems, and visual assets
• Translate strategy and messaging into clear, compelling creative
• Jump into production work when priorities demand it, without treating it as someone else's job
• Maintain brand consistency and quality across all touchpoints
• Present work and rationale clearly to stakeholders
• Manage multiple fast-moving projects at once and keep the work orderly

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3-7 years of brand design experience across a variety of project types and formats
• Portfolio showing range: brand systems, campaigns, presentations, event or environmental graphics, and production-ready work
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), plus Figma and Google Workspace
• Strong typography, layout, color, and visual storytelling
• Ability to think conceptually and systematically
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Agency or high-growth brand environment experience
• Experience contributing to or building brand guidelines and systems
• Versatile, you take on whatever the work requires, from concept to final files
• Craft-obsessed, sharp eye for detail and visual excellence
• Systems-aware, you work within a design system and make it stronger
• Self-directed and communicative, you keep work organized and people informed

Pay Range: California

$96,000 - $173,000 USD

We calibrate level and compensation to the selected candidate's experience and demonstrated capability. We welcome applicants across a range of experience levels to apply.

Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand. Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package. Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including: medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks. We also take pride in offering exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge, and lunch subsidized as part of Vast's ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees.

The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a 'U.S. person' as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.

Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.