Senior Brand Designer

Lambda; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a senior brand designer to craft brand identity across web, print, and presentation assets. You will collaborate with marketing, product, and engineering to ensure cohesive design outputs and scalable processes.

The role requires hands-on design across websites, UI/UX, print, and motion; strong typography and brand systems experience are essential. The position is hybrid, with 4 days in office in San Jose or San Francisco and a fixed Tuesday work-from-home day.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in brand design; strong portfolio
• Hands-on designer with expert-level tool skills in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong typography, color theory, and visual composition
• Excellent communication and collaboration across product/engineering/marketing
• Experience with brand systems, websites, UI/UX, presentations, print and events

Responsibilities

• Create and evolve brand identity across web, print, and presentation assets
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and engineering for cohesive design outputs
• Manage multiple design projects with timely delivery
• Experiment with new design tools to enhance visual appeal
• Help develop scalable design processes for the team

Skills

Brand design

Graphic design

Motion design

Typography

UI/UX design

Brand systems

Prototyping

Education

Design degree

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Prototyping tools

After Effects

Cavalry

3D software

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

• Note: This position requires presence in our San Jose or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work-from-home day is currently Tuesday.

What You'll Do

• Be a key contributor to the creation and evolution of our brand identity - creating beautiful and intuitive designs for marketing, product, and internal initiatives.
• Work with marketing, product, and engineering teams to ensure a cohesive brand and high-quality design outputs.
• You will craft design assets across web, print, and presentation.
• Manage multiple design projects to ensure timely delivery.
• Experiment with new design tools to enhance the brand's visual appeal.
• Help create and develop design processes that scale with the team.

You Are

• You are not a cog in the machine; you're a people person...but if you could please attach your cover sheets to your TPS reports, that would be greeeaaaat...
• You are a hands-on, full-stack brand designer with expert-level skills in graphic, digital, print, and motion design.
• You possess expertise in refining vector artwork, encompassing logo design, iconography, and illustration.

You Have a Track Record of

• Creating multiple websites, with a penchant for grid layouts and a sharp eye for typography and font combinations.
• Crafting motion assets using prototyping software, 2D motion tools like After Effects or Cavalry, or 3D software.
• Adapting your aesthetic output to align with brand guidelines while exploring novel visual directions.
• Thriving on establishing brands and design systems from scratch, having executed brand refreshes and full rebrands.
• Demonstrating agility in iterating designs swiftly within a fast-paced creative setting.
• Maintaining a humble approach with a team-first mindset, relishing collaboration within a tight-knit team.
• Leveraging data and quantitative insights to drive design decisions.
• Articulating the rationale behind design choices and embracing qualitative analysis with a rational, balanced perspective.
• Being adept at providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Engaging effectively with diverse stakeholders, both technical and non-technical (Product/Engineering and Marketing).
• Keeping abreast of industry trends and design methodologies.
• Fluency with AI tools and prompting to support creative exploration, accelerate workflows, and push visual innovation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in brand design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to solve complex design problems
• You are a hands-on designer.
• Expert-level in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools
• Have a strong understanding of typography, color theory, and visual composition
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and feedback clearly
• You are experienced with website design, UI/UX, presentation design, print design, event design, and social media design
• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Love ideation, iteration, and attention to detail (pixel perfection)
• A degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field is preferred, but not required

Nice to Have

• Advanced motion/3D skills: animating, compositing, rendering, rotoscoping
• Photography/videography skills: shooting, editing
• Experience with creative coding or generative art, especially where design and engineering intersect
• Experience in the machine learning or computer hardware industry

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Compensation Range: $143K - $190K