Communications Designer - Brand and Visual

Athelas; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Athelas seeks a Brand Design Lead to drive its brand expression and product creative across major moments, including brand campaigns, product launches, and in-product experiences. You will set quality standards and collaborate cross‑functionally to shape cohesive brand systems, typography, color, and illustration, bringing a human, trusted voice to complex clinical subjects.

You will balance setting a strategic vision with hands-on execution, refining an illustration system, directing shoots,

Qualifications

• Systems-thinking approach with attention to detail.
• Comfort leading as the primary IC on brand and visual design.
• Strong portfolio across brand identity, product design, and visual systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive brand expression and product creative across campaigns, launches, in-product experiences, and storytelling.
• Define visual identity and design systems to keep work coherent at scale.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to shape brand and creative decisions.

Skills

Systems thinking

Brand design leadership

Portfolio breadth

AI tool experience

Design systems

Empathy for users

Typography & layout

Tools

Figma

Midjourney

ComfyUI

Job description

Responsibilities

• Our team is a multidisciplinary group of visual communication designers, writers, motion designers, product designers, and producers building the way Commure shows up in the world
• We partner closely with Product, Marketing, Growth, Clinical, Comms, and Executive teams to bring to life a complex, high-stakes category into work that feels compelling, human, and unmistakably ours
• We’re looking for a Brand Design Lead to drive our brand expression and product creative across our most important moments: brand campaigns, product launches, in-product experiences, brand systems, and storytelling
• This is a hands‑on creative leadership role for someone with exceptional taste, care for craftsmanship, sharp strategic instincts, and the systems mindset to raise the quality of the work at scale
• You’re equally comfortable zooming out to define a cohesive creative vision and zooming in to sharpen a webpage, refine an illustration system, or direct a photoshoot
• It is your job to set the quality bar and inspire our teams and our clients through communications design
• We believe deeply in the power of in‑person collaboration to accelerate the work and strengthen the team
• Define and lead the creative vision across brand and product: campaigns, launches, patient‑ and provider‑facing experiences, in‑product moments, event and executive storytelling, and the digital surfaces that connect them
• Define our visual identity and design systems: typography, color, illustration, and the frameworks that keep our work coherent as we scale
• Translate complex clinical and product subject matter into work that feels simple, human, and earns trust
• Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Marketing, and Executive teams to shape brand and creative decisions
• Set the quality bar for craft knowing when to push for a bigger idea and when to fight for the right color, type choice, or layout
• Use AI tools thoughtfully in your workflow for concepting, prototyping, and production to move faster without compromising craft

Qualifications

• A systems‑thinking approach and an eye for the details that matter
• Comfort being the primary IC on brand and visual design today, with the interest and ability to hire and grow a team as scope expands
• A strong portfolio showing range across brand identity, product design, and visual systems with clear examples of work you personally designed and shipped
• Real fluency with AI tools and workflows (Midjourney, ComfyUI, generative video, LLMs for iteration) with concrete examples of how you’ve used them to move faster or improve quality
• Experience building design systems that raise quality and consistency across a product or brand
• Deep empathy for the people we serve: patients, providers, caregivers and the judgment to hold that responsibility carefully in a regulated, high‑trust category
• Sophisticated visual craft, strong instincts across typography, color, composition, and layout
• 7+ years of relevant experience in brand and visual design, with a track record of owning design end‑to‑end rather than primarily directing others