Founding Brand Designer

ResolveAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Equity with early exercise

Housing stipend

Unlimited PTO

Visa sponsorship

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Daily meals

Job summary

Resolve AI in San Francisco is seeking a founding Brand Designer to own the visual expression from the ground up, shaping a premium brand for an AI-native platform that helps engineers build, operate, and scale software systems.

You will lead brand design across web, campaigns, product marketing, and executive communications, translating complex ideas into visually compelling narratives and setting the design direction for a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in visual, brand, or marketing design.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual clarity, and narrative craft.
• Proven ability to create and evolve a brand across digital surfaces (web, product marketing, campaigns, internal storytelling).
• Deep expertise with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; motion/3D/interactive design is a plus.
• Exceptional typography, layout, hierarchy, and color with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for cross-functional partners and executives.
• Experience building or contributing to scalable design systems, visual guidelines, or component libraries.
• Comfort operating as both strategist and hands-on designer; self-starter in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design vision for Resolve AI’s brand across web, campaigns, product marketing, and executive communications.
• Translate complex, technical ideas into visually compelling narratives that communicate our mission clearly.
• Design high-impact creatives for launches, campaigns, events, and announcements across web, social, presentations, motion, and more.
• Build the foundations of our design system with scalable guidelines, reusable components, and templates.
• Shape and evolve our visual identity, ensuring coherence across every touchpoint.
• Establish creative processes balancing speed and quality in a fast-moving environment.
• Bring fresh inspiration and experimentation into our work with AI-assisted tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Leadership to ensure cohesive visuals.
• Set the bar for visual excellence as the first design hire; build a scalable foundation.

Skills

Brand design

Storytelling

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Typography

Presentation

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

About Resolve AI

• Software maintenance and production troubleshooting have become a massive tax of engineering velocity. Resolve AI is solving this by building a transformative, truly autonomous AI Production Engineer that investigates and fixes complex system issues end-to-end.

• Our founders (Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal) are the core creators of OpenTelemetry and led Splunk Observability. They have had 2 successful exits to Splunk and VMware.

• We’ve raised over $190M from top-tier investors including Lightspeed, Greylock, DST, Unusual Ventures, and individual backers such as Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind), Thomas Dohmke (CEO, GitHub), Matt Garman (CEO, AWS), Reid Hoffman (Founder, LinkedIn), and Fei-Fei Li (Professor, Stanford).

Joining Resolve AI at this stage of our journey is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You’ve already decided that you want to work at an AI-native company that’s pushing the limits of how engineers work, and now you’re looking for the right one.

What You’ll Do

As our Founding Brand Designer, you’ll own the visual expression of Resolve AI from the ground up, crafting a brand that reflects the ambition, clarity, and technical depth of what we’re building.

• Lead the end-to-end design vision for Resolve AI’s brand, defining how our story comes to life across web, campaigns, product marketing, and executive communications.

• Work directly with the Head of Marketing, Founders, and Executives to translate complex, technical ideas into visually compelling narratives that communicate our mission clearly and confidently.

• Design high-impact creative for launches, campaigns, events, and announcements across web, social, presentations, motion, and more.

• Build the foundations of our design system, creating scalable guidelines, reusable components, and templates that enable teams to move fast while staying on-brand.

• Shape and evolve our visual identity, ensuring coherence and craft across every touchpoint.

• Establish creative processes that balance speed and quality in an environment where priorities shift quickly and ambition is high.

• Bring fresh inspiration and experimentation into our creative work—exploring new techniques, workflows, and AI-assisted tools to push the boundaries of visual communication.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Leadership to ensure every detail from typography to motion reinforces a cohesive, premium brand experience.

• Set the bar for visual excellence as the first design hire, building a creative foundation that will scale with the company.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in visual, brand, or marketing design, with a portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, visual clarity, and narrative craft.

• Proven ability to create and evolve a brand across digital surfaces, including web, product marketing, campaigns, and internal storytelling.

• Deep expertise with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; motion, 3D, or interactive design experience is a strong plus.

• Exceptional eye for typography, layout, hierarchy, and color, with meticulous attention to detail.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, able to clearly articulate creative rationale to cross-functional partners and executives.

• Experience building or contributing to scalable design systems, visual guidelines, or component libraries.

• Comfort operating as both strategist and hands-on designer

• A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, builds structure from scratch, and is energized by ownership and autonomy.

• Genuine excitement for Resolve AI’s mission and curiosity about how Agentic AI will reshape how engineers build, operate, and scale software systems.

Why Join Resolve AI?

• Make a Real Impact: Join a mission-driven team tackling complex challenges that deliver meaningful outcomes for customers and revolutionize engineering operations.

• Shape Agentic AI’s Future: Help build the next frontier in enterprise software and define its transformative impact.

• Own Your Work: Take end-to-end responsibility in your role in a collaborative, high-trust environment.

• Accelerate Your Career: Grow alongside industry leaders in a fast-paced environment, gaining invaluable experience and opportunities to propel your career to new heights.

• Competitive Benefits: Competitive Pay Packages with full benefits including:

  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

  • Equity with Early Exercise

  • Monthly Housing Stipend

  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off

  • Visa Sponsorship & Immigration Support

  • 401(k) Plan

  • Parental Leave

  • Discretionary Tech Benefit Stipend

  • Daily in-office Lunches and Dinners

We are an equal opportunity employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace,color,religion,national origin,sex,gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.