Requirements

• 8+ years in creative, brand design, art direction, or creative services, in high-growth technology, AI, B2B SaaS, or similarly complex and technical markets, with real hands-on production and not just oversight.
• A portfolio that shows range and craft across brand, campaign, web, social, video, and product or technical storytelling, with both concept and execution.
• Daily, advanced use of AI in the creative process : frontier models such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and AI design, image, and video tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway, Google Veo, Sora, and ElevenLabs. You use AI to raise both speed and quality, and you turn what works into reusable systems others can run, from prompts and templates to kits and workflows.
• Creative coding and prototyping. You can turn a concept into a working prototype using design-to-code and AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Figma Make, v0 by Vercel.
• A track record of turning brand guidelines into systems that others can run: reusable prompts, templates, kits, or workflows.
• Experience building, hiring, and managing a freelance or contractor bench , not just briefing existing vendors. You have stood up and run flexible creative capacity and scaled it as demand moved.
• Hands-on motion and video production. You can storyboard, edit, and ship demo clips, launch videos, social cuts, and event loops, with tools such as Premiere, After Effects, Descript, and AI-assisted video.
• Product and in-product visual support. You can produce icons, diagrams, app imagery, feature visuals, and lightweight in-product creative, and partner closely with Product Design.
• Strong command of Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite , with the range to pick the right tool for the job.
• Strong written and verbal communication and a high-ownership, low-ego, fast-moving style. You build the best available draft and invite reaction rather than waiting for perfect information.

Preferred

• Experience in defense, national security, intelligence, national labs, critical infrastructure, public sector, or other regulated, high-consequence industries.
• Experience with ABM, demand generation, product launches, or full-funnel B2B campaigns.
• Experience with lightweight web tools such as Webflow or Framer.
• Experience building AI brand kits or machine-readable brand guidance that other people adopted.

Benefits

• competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and a culture built on ownership, discipline, and mission.