Sr. Visual Designer

Cantina Labs; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company equity

Health insurance

Paid time off (42 days)

Parental leave

401(k)

Lifestyle spending account

Lunch and snacks

One Medical membership

Job summary

Cantina is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to own and evolve the brand across digital and print surfaces. You will lead art direction for campaigns, create bold typographic layouts, and shape launch visuals for films and videos.

You will collaborate with video editors and AI filmmakers, translating strategies into striking visuals and responsive digital experiences. A strong portfolio and expert design sense are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Portfolio grounded in graphic design and brand identity with strong art direction across campaigns and multiple mediums.
• Exceptional typography, layout, composition, color, and image-making skills.
• Experience turning a loose brief into a compelling visual concept and directing production.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Cantina's visual identity across web, social, print, campaigns, and in-app surfaces.
• Lead art direction for campaigns, launches, and branded content with mood boards and design treatments.
• Shape launch films, trailers, and videos with design and animation.
• Create campaigns: identities, posters, layouts, social assets with strong typography.
• Build and maintain Cantina's brand system across typography, color, and imagery.
• Art direct AI-generated imagery and video for style and quality.
• Collaborate with editors, designers, illustrators, and AI filmmakers through final execution.
• Design websites, landing pages, and in-app surfaces to bring the brand to life.
• Create motion graphics and transitions extending identity into video.
• Stay hands-on, explore directions, and ship assets under tight timelines.

Skills

Graphic design

Brand identity

Art direction

Typography

Web design

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Motion graphics

After Effects

AI in design

Tools

After Effects

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

AI video tools

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.

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

• Competitive salary and generous company equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
• 42 days of paid time off, including:
  • 15 PTO days
  • 10 sick days
  • 15 company holidays
  • 2 floating holidays
• Generous parental leave & fertility support
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
• One Medical membership, and more!