restate - Founding Brand Designer

• Founding profile • We’re looking for a designer with strong opinions and a portfolio that backs them up. You should be comfortable operating with significant autonomy, working directly with founders and the founding team, and pushing back when the team is wrong. • A portfolio that demonstrates brand systems thinking. We want to see how you’ve defined visual languages that scale. • Motion design ability: motion as a way to communicate state, time, and dynamism. • Visual storytelling for technical concepts. Show us how you’ve made something complex feel obvious. • Strong website craft. You can take a website from concept through to shipped design and prototype. • AI literacy: you’re using AI to multiply your own impact and to unblock yourself. You’re not waiting for engineers to help you take a new website version live. • Prior work on developer tools, infrastructure, or AI products. Familiarity with the developer audience and what “great” looks like in this space. • You think in transitions, state, and interaction, not just static screens. You’re comfortable using tools like Rive, After Effects, Lottie, or equivalent to bring concepts to life. • Front-end fluency (HTML/CSS/JS) so you can prototype interactive concepts yourself. • Experience building or contributing to a design system in production. • You want to lead a design team rather than be the senior IC doing the work yourself. • You expect heavy direction. We need someone who arrives with a point of view and can evolve the brand. • You’re not interested in technical subject matter. Our surface area is wide, and the role lives or dies on translating it. • ENGAGEMENT, LOCATION, AND TRAVEL • Engagement: we expect this to start as a paid 50% contract engagement with a clear path to full-time. • Location: remote in Europe • Travel: minimal; occasional team offsites.