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BlacksmithBlacksmithSan Francisco, CA

Brand Designer

Own and evolve Blacksmith's developer-focused brand across all surfaces including website, social, events, and product launches. Translate complex technical concepts into engaging visuals, build scalable visual systems, and collaborate directly with founders and engineering while shipping fast and raising craft standards.

180k – 220k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBrand Design

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own how Blacksmith looks and sounds across every surface: website, social, events, decks, swag and more.
  • Translate genuinely complex technical concepts into visuals that engage and build credibility with engineers.
  • Build a flexible visual system that holds up across multiple product lines and scales as we ship more.
  • Work directly with the founders and with engineering on launch narratives, from the shape of the story down to the assets that carry it on Hacker News, X, and the blog.
  • Ship fast and iterate in public; treat the brand as something that evolves alongside the product.
  • Raise the bar on craft across the team, ensure we maintain quality whilst we move at speed.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in brand design role, ideally in developer tools, infrastructure, or at the least in a complex B2B product environment.
  • A portfolio that shows both systems thinking and range across mediums - web, motion, print, and presentation, with strong typography and layout at its core.
  • Evidence you've built or meaningfully evolved a brand for a technical product, not just executed against someone else's system.
  • The ability to articulate why a design decision is right and bring engineers and founders along with it.
  • Comfort with ambiguity.
  • Maniacal about polish and know what earns trust with a developer audience. Instinct and taste are critical here.
  • Love to prototype, want multiple options for every design choice and expert at leveraging agentic tools to expedite this process.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive base + equity
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
  • 401k match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Annual offsite
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

Skills

brand designTypographylayout designMotion Designvisual systemsPrototypingagentic tools

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