Sr. Visual Designer

cantina.com

Los Angeles (CA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 260,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

PTO 42 days

Parental leave

401(k)

Lifestyle spending

Lunch provided

One Medical

Job summary

Cantina is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to own the brand look across all surfaces, from website to campaigns and launch films. You’ll lead art direction, develop concepts, and execute with typography, bold composition, and distinctive visuals.

You’ll collaborate with editors and designers, shape AI-generated visuals, and ship launch assets on tight timelines. Remote work is not specified; strong design experience is required.

Qualifications

Portfolio grounded in graphic design and brand identity with art direction across campaigns.
Exceptional typography, layout, color, and image-making skills.
Experience turning briefs into visual concepts and directing production.
Strong taste and the ability to defend design decisions.
Web design experience translating a brand to responsive digital experiences.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve visual identity across web, social, print, campaigns, and in-app surfaces.
Lead art direction for campaigns, launches, and branded content with mood boards.
Shape look of launch films and videos, designing and animating where possible.
Create campaign graphics, posters, titles, layouts, and social assets with typography.
Build and maintain brand system across typography, color, imagery, and motion.
Direct AI-generated imagery and video, refining assets.
Collaborate with editors, motion designers, and AI filmmakers through final execution.
Design websites, landing pages, and in-app marketing surfaces.
Create motion graphics and transitions extending brand identity.
Stay hands-on, explore directions, and deliver assets on tight timelines.

Skills

Brand identity

Art direction

Typography

Layout

Color theory

Image making

Web design

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

After Effects

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

AI video tools

Motion design

Animated typography

Video graphics

Brand animation

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

After Effects

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Job description

About Cantina:

Cantina is a new social platform founded by Sean Parker with the most advanced AI character creator. Our bots are lifelike, social creatures that can interact wherever people are online—across voice, video, and text. Create yourself, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of characters to share infinitely scalable, personalized content and seamless group chat.

If you’re excited about how AI can shape creativity and social interaction, come help us build what’s next.

About the Role:

Cantina is looking for a Senior Visual Designer with serious graphic design chops and strong art direction instincts to shape how Cantina looks. You’ll be the keeper of the brand across every surface, from the website and campaigns to launch films, title treatments, in‑app announcements, and printed posters.

You’ll develop a visual concept, get others excited about it, and execute the details yourself, with great typography, bold composition, and images that make you stop.

We’re open to a range of backgrounds. You might be a graphic and brand designer who also animates, or a motion designer and video editor with a strong design eye. Either way, great design comes first.

What You’ll Do:

Own and evolve our visual identity across web, social, print, campaigns, and in‑app product marketing surfaces.
Lead art direction for campaigns, product launches, and branded content, developing concepts, mood boards, visual references, and design treatments that give the work a clear direction.
Shape the look of launch films, trailers, and feature videos for our biggest product moments, designing and animating where it fits your strengths.
Make exceptional graphic design: campaign identities, key art, posters, title treatments, layouts, social assets, and launch materials with strong typography and a distinctive visual language.
Build and maintain our brand system across typography, color, composition, imagery, iconography, and motion, giving a growing creative team the tools and direction to make consistently great work.
Art direct AI‑generated imagery and video, making deliberate choices about style, lighting, color, framing, and composition, then refining and finishing the assets.
Work alongside a team of video editors, motion designers, illustrators, and AI filmmakers, giving specific visual feedback and staying involved through final execution.
Design websites, landing pages, and in‑app marketing surfaces that bring the brand to life and make the product easy to understand.
Create motion graphics, animated typography, and transitions that extend the visual identity into video.
Stay hands‑on: explore different directions, build the assets, sweat the spacing, and get the work out into the world.

What You’ll Bring:

A portfolio (and a reel, if you have one) grounded in graphic design and brand identity, with strong examples of art direction across campaigns and multiple mediums.
Exceptional typography, layout, composition, color, and image‑making skills. You can make a single poster feel special and carry that same idea across an entire campaign.
Experience taking a loose brief and turning it into a compelling visual concept, then directing and executing the work through production.
Great taste and the ability to explain your decisions. You know when a design needs more energy, more restraint, or a completely different idea.
Strong web design skills and experience translating a brand into responsive digital experiences.
Proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Experience with motion and video tools like After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or AI video tools is a plus.
Experience incorporating generative AI into your creative process, with the craft to art direct, composite, retouch, and finish the output.
The ability to ship launch assets on aggressive timelines, iterate quickly on feedback and keep quality high when the deadline moves.
Nice to have: Hands‑on motion design and motion graphics experience, especially animated typography, brand animation, and video graphics.

Compensation:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is between $200,000-$260,000. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

Benefits: