Senior Brand Designer - Elevate the AI Cloud Brand

Lambda Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with 2% match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Lambda is seeking a Senior Brand Designer to lead and execute brand initiatives that define and elevate our visual identity across all touchpoints. You will craft exceptional brand experiences for customers and users, collaborating with marketing, product, and engineering to ensure cohesive outputs.

We value hands-on, full-stack design, typography expertise, and a strong portfolio. The role involves shaping brand guidelines, developing design systems, and driving visual innovation in a

Qualifications

• 6+ years of brand design experience with a strong portfolio.
• Hands-on designer with expertise across brand identity, digital, print and motion.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Brand design

Full-stack design

Graphic design

Typography

Communication

Collaboration

AI tools

Education

Design degree

Human-Computer Interaction

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

After Effects

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.

We seek a talented Senior Brand Designer to lead and execute design projects that define and elevate our visual identity and brand. This role is crucial in shaping how Lambda is perceived across all touchpoints. As part of the design team, you’ll create exceptional brand experiences for our customers and users.

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.