Brand and Design Lead

Coram AI; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid health benefits

Flexible PTO

401(k) with Traditional and Roth

Equity

Referral bonuses

Team dinners and off-sites

Latest Apple products & tools

Job summary

Coram AI in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Head of Brand & Design to own how the company looks, sounds, and feels everywhere. This leadership role reports to the VP of Marketing and collaborates with the CEO and product team to raise the bar on brand work.

You'll lead a house of design, build guidelines, and partner with agencies to create compelling visuals across the website, campaigns, and product assets. The role demands strategic thinking and hands-on design leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in brand and/or design with senior leadership and full brand ownership.
• Fluent in Figma and Adobe (Illustrator, After Effects/motion).
• A portfolio that demonstrates taste and intentionality.
• Experience building and leading teams; hiring designers and managing agencies.
• Hands-on leadership with active design involvement.
• Resilient in fast-paced environments.
• Exceptional written and verbal English communication; ability to influence at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and steward Coram's visual identity: logo, color and type system, illustration, iconography, motion, and brand guidelines.
• Own the Coram website as the front door: design, art direction, and pages that convert; partner with demand gen and SEO.
• Make the product legible and desirable: launches, demo assets, explainer visuals, and collateral.
• Set the visual standard for campaigns across channels; ensure consistency across assets.
• Collaborate with video team to raise production and design quality of published work.
• Hire and lead designers; manage agencies and contractors; align design with marketing, product, and sales.
• Defend a clear point of view on design quality and elevate all brand output.

Skills

Brand leadership

Figma

Adobe CC

Portfolio

Team management

Communication

English proficiency

Tools

Illustrator

After Effects

Job description

Overview

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.

You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.

The role

We're hiring our first Head of Brand & Design to own how Coram looks, sounds, and feels everywhere it shows up. Right now that work is spread across the team and outside agencies. We want one person with genuine taste to own it end to end and raise the bar on all of it.

This is a leadership priority, not a logo cleanup. You'll report to the VP of Marketing and work directly with our CEO and product team on how Coram shows up in the world. Brand has a seat, not a service desk. You'll have the mandate to make bold calls and the backing to ship them. We're not hiring you to keep the brand safe. We're hiring you to make it impossible to ignore.

The brand today

Go look at coram.ai. That's your starting line, and there's a lot of room to build.

The bones are there: a CORAM wordmark where the O is our aperture symbol (a camera-iris mark of radiating green wedges), set in TT Commons Classic, on a green-forward palette. It's a real foundation and nowhere near its ceiling. You'll own where it goes next.

Full guidelines (type, the exact green system, logo rules) shared during the process. You won't be starting from a blank file.

Responsibilities

• Brand identity and system. Evolve and steward Coram's visual identity: the CORAM wordmark and aperture symbol, our color and type system, illustration, iconography, and motion. Build the guidelines and the components so the brand stays coherent as more people touch it.
• Own the Coram website as the company's front door: design, art direction, and the ongoing craft of the pages that convert. Partner closely with demand gen and SEO on what ships.
• Make the product legible and desirable: feature launches, demo assets, explainer visuals, and the sales deck and collateral reps actually use in the field.
• Set the visual standard for campaigns, ads, social, email, events, and video. You won't make every asset, but nothing goes out looking off-brand.
• Partner with the video team to raise the production and design quality of what we publish.
• Hire and lead designers and creatives as we grow. Bring in and manage the right agencies and contractors. Define how design works with marketing, product, and sales.
• Have a point of view on what good looks like, defend it, and lift the quality of everything Coram puts into the world.

Skills and qualifications

• 8+ years in brand and/or design, including senior creative leadership with full brand ownership, ideally in an early stage (Series A/B) environment
• Fluent in Figma and Adobe (Illustrator, After Effects/motion)
• A portfolio that demonstrates taste and intentionality
• Experience building and leading teams where you've hired designers and managed agencies partnerships
• A hands-on leadership style with active involvement in designing vs. solely providing feedback on team contributions.
• Resilient in challenging and fast-paced environments
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to influence at all levels

What we offer

• 100% Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and base life insurance
• Flexible paid time off and 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) with both Traditional and Roth options
• Early-stage equity in a rapidly growing company
• Referral bonuses
• Daily team dinners and regular team off-sites
• The latest Apple products and unlimited tech stack (Claude Cowork, Perplexity Computer, Nooks, Clay, Instantly, etc.)

We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.

Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.