Visual Designer

InvestedintheMission; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 76,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Visual Designer to help shape a new in-house creative team. You’ll collaborate with the Creative Director on identity, campaigns, product stories, events, film, and the design system that binds it all.

You’ll push brand work beyond ordinary execution and help grow the department with contractors today and the team of tomorrow. Showcase a portfolio with range, a clear brain behind the work, and fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.

Qualifications

• Serious experience as a brand designer or art director.
• Fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• A portfolio with range and visible thinking.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to shape direction.
• Discerning design taste and ambition to lead a department.

Responsibilities

• Take direction from the Creative Director and build on ideas.
• Design across the brand: identity systems, campaigns, product work, web, motion, events, and presentations.
• Participate in early concepts and stylescapes, not just final polish.
• Build design systems in Figma that scale with the team.
• Move between Figma and Adobe Creative Suite from exploration to craft.
• Help build the department and onboard future teammates.
• Bring a strong point of view and act as a creative partner.

Skills

Brand design

Art direction

Design systems

Ambiguity tolerance

Design critique

Ambition

Portfolio

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Please review the job details below.

Visual Designer

Vantor is forging the new frontier of the spatial intelligence category. Our platform turns what satellites and sensors capture into ground truth that governments and companies act on, from orbit all the way down to the dirt. Being the leader comes with a creative mandate: we get to decide what leadership in this industry looks like. That is the job. Push the brand further, raise the bar, and make work the rest of the category ends up chasing.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be one of the first hires in a brand new in-house creative team, working shoulder to shoulder with the Creative Director on everything the brand touches: identity, campaigns, product stories, events, film, and the design system that holds it all together. The foundation exists. Your job is to build on it, sharpen it, and take it places we have not thought of yet.

Give us a fragment, a reference, a rough idea, and come back with something better than what we imagined. That is the role in one sentence.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Take direction from the Creative Director and run with it. Build on ideas, do not just reproduce them.
• Design across the whole brand: identity systems, campaigns, sales and product work, web, motion, events, and presentations that actually get remembered.
• Get in early on concepts and stylescapes. We want your ideas at the sketch stage, not just your polish at the end.
• Build design systems in Figma that hold up as the team and the work scale.
• Move fluidly between Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite, from loose exploration to finished, shippable craft.
• Help build the department itself. Work with our contractors today, help us grow and onboard the team of tomorrow.
• Bring a real point of view and put it on the table. We want a creative partner, not a pair of hands.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Serious experience as a brand designer or art director, ideally building brand systems rather than just executing campaigns inside them.
• Fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite. These are your daily instruments.
• A portfolio with range and a visible brain behind it.
• Comfort in ambiguity. Early-stage direction does not scare you, it is where you do your best work.
• Taste for restraint. You know the difference between design with intent and decoration with a glow effect.
• Ambition. You want to help build a department and a body of work, not occupy a seat in one.

HOW WE USE AI

AI has a seat in our process for concepting, exploration, and speed. It does not get the final word. Anything that ships carries your craft, your taste, and your hand. If your portfolio is prompts all the way down, this is not the role.

NICE TO HAVE

• Comfort with JSON and structured data files, 3D, things like design tokens, Lottie files, or data-driven design systems.
• Motion or video chops.
• A soft spot for technical and diagrammatic design traditions: cartography, engineering drawing, wayfinding, the beautiful nerdy stuff.

PROBABLY NOT YOUR ROLE IF

• You are happiest executing a locked spec someone hands you.
• GenAI is your finishing tool, not your sketching tool.
• Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite are occasional visitors in your workflow rather than residents.

Pay Transparency

To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range. The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate’s experience, expertise, and alignment with the role.

The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $76,000.00 - $101,000.00 - $111,100.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

The date of posting can be found on Vantor's Career page at the top of each job posting.

EEO Policy

Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.