# Brand Designer

**Company:** [Phonely](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/phonely)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Brand Design
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Brand Systems, Design Systems, Typography, Layout, Color Theory, Web Design, Webflow, Presentation Design, Print Design, Marketing Design, Design Tokens, Component Design
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Own Phonely’s visual identity as its first designer, building a scalable brand and product design system while shipping the marketing site, campaigns, customer stories, and executive communications. Requires 5+ years of brand-system experience, strong visual craft, and the ability to build production websites.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own Phonely’s visual identity and establish rules across all surfaces.
- Build a design system with tokens, components, and reusable templates.
- Bring the product interface onto the design system and collaborate with frontend engineers to standardize customer-facing screens.
- Translate call flows, funnels, and agent behavior into clear visual communication.
- Build and launch landing, comparison, and vertical marketing pages, including tested forms.
- Create campaign systems, product marketing collateral, competitive materials, customer stories, and conference assets.
- Establish formats for executive communications to customers, investors, and event audiences.

## Requirements
- 5+ years designing brand systems and related marketing surfaces.
- Portfolio demonstrating range and a distinct point of view.
- Experience authoring brand-system rules and documentation.
- Strong command of typography, layout, hierarchy, and color across web, presentations, and print.
- Ability to ship production work rather than only handoffs.
- Ability to build websites in Webflow or another tool quickly.
- Comfortable serving as a first designer, setting standards, defending creative direction, and adapting based on strong feedback.

## Nice-to-Haves / Interview Exercises
- Portfolio review featuring a design system authored by the candidate and a website they built.
- Take-home exercise rebuilding a Phonely surface and explaining the design reasoning.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Meaningful equity.
- On-site role in San Francisco with covered meals.
- Quarterly offsites.

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