Senior Brand Designer

Nen Creative
New York +2 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 3–7 years of agency branding experience and a track record of client-facing conceptual design work.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with agency branding experience and a history of client collaboration
    — “ideally within a strong branding, design, or creative agency environment”
  • Individuals who excel in conceptual thinking and visual system development
    — “develop distinctive creative directions from early exploration through fully realized systems”
  • Designers who thrive in entrepreneurial, fast-growing environments
    — “Be part of a small, fast-growing studio trusted by world-class startups and investors”

Things to consider

  • The role demands high ownership and reliability, with no room for passive contributions
    — “You do whatever it takes to get important work over the line”
  • Candidates must be prepared to present work and explain creative decisions to clients
    — “present work clearly and confidently, articulate the thinking behind creative decisions”

How to stand out

  • Showcase your ability to own projects from concept to delivery in your portfolio
    — “Take meaningful ownership of projects and workstreams from concept through delivery”
  • Highlight your experience with brand identities and visual systems in your resume
    — “Create exceptional work across brand identity, visual systems, websites, campaigns”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to challenge conventions and deliver ownable creative solutions
    — “Push beyond the first idea, challenge conventions, and find solutions that feel ownable”
  • Emphasize your ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
    — “Work closely with creative leadership, strategists, developers, project managers”
  • Include examples of how you've raised the bar in previous creative roles
    — “Driven to raise the bar. You're ambitious about your craft”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • exceptional brand and digital work
  • strong portfolio
  • ability to push creative boundaries
Typical background
3-7 years of experience in design

Skills & requirements

Required

Brand DesignVisual SystemsConcept DevelopmentProject OwnershipClient CollaborationCreative Collaboration

Preferred

AI ToolsPrompt Engineering

Stack & domain

DesignBrand IdentityVisual SystemsDigital DesignConcept DevelopmentProject OwnershipClient CollaborationCreative CollaborationRaising The BarStrong Conceptual ThinkingHigh Ownership And ReliabilityStrong WitAmbitious About CraftCurious About Design And CultureConstantly Looking For Ways To Make Work DistinctiveBrandingCreative Agency

About the role

Original posting from Nen Creative via Ashby

ABOUT NEN CREATIVE

Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth.

Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more.

We're growing quickly and looking for ambitious people who want to help build the company alongside us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Senior Designer to create exceptional brand and digital work for some of the most ambitious companies in technology.

This is a senior, hands-on design role for someone with exceptional craft, strong conceptual thinking, and the ability to take meaningful ownership of projects from early exploration through final delivery.

You'll work across brand identities, websites, campaigns, and launch moments — developing ideas, building visual systems, and pushing the work beyond the obvious. You'll collaborate closely with creative leadership, project managers, strategists, and other designers while owning significant portions of the creative process yourself.

You'll also work directly with clients, presenting concepts, explaining creative decisions, responding thoughtfully to feedback, and helping move projects toward strong outcomes.

We're looking for someone who wants to do career-defining work, move quickly, push creative boundaries, and help raise the standard of what Nen puts into the world.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Design & Craft: Create exceptional work across brand identity, visual systems, websites, campaigns, and launch experiences. Bring a high level of taste, detail, and polish to everything you touch.

Concept Development: Develop distinctive creative directions from early exploration through fully realized systems. Push beyond the first idea, challenge conventions, and find solutions that feel ownable and memorable.

Project Ownership: Take meaningful ownership of projects and workstreams from concept through delivery. Manage your own work effectively, anticipate what needs to happen next, and make sure details don't fall through the cracks.

Client Collaboration: Present work clearly and confidently, articulate the thinking behind creative decisions, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and build trust with founders and senior stakeholders.

Creative Collaboration: Work closely with creative leadership, strategists, developers, project managers, and other designers to make the work stronger. Give thoughtful feedback and contribute actively to critiques.

Raise the Bar: Help improve the quality of our work, our creative process, and the way we present ourselves as a studio. Bring new references, ideas, techniques, and perspectives into the team.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • 3–7 years of experience as a designer, ideally within a strong branding, design, or creative agency environment.
  • Exceptional design craft and taste. You have a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent typography, composition, visual systems, identity work, and digital design.
  • Strong conceptual thinking. You can develop ideas, not just execute layouts, and know how to turn a strong concept into a cohesive visual system.
  • High ownership and reliability. You do whatever it takes to get important work over the line, stay calm under pressure, and don't need someone chasing you to make things happen. This is not a role for someone looking for a strictly 9–5 mindset.
  • Strong with clients and presentations. You're comfortable presenting your work, explaining your thinking, receiving feedback, and navigating creative conversations professionally.
  • Able to move fluidly between thinking and making. You can zoom out to understand the bigger creative idea and zoom all the way into the details required to make the final work exceptional.
  • Driven to raise the bar. You're ambitious about your craft, curious about what's happening in design and culture, and constantly looking for ways to make the work more distinctive.

WHY JOIN NEN CREATIVE

  • Be part of a small, fast-growing studio trusted by world-class startups and investors
  • Work directly with top founders shaping the future of tech
  • Clear growth path as we scale — you’ll help define the design practice itself
  • Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment
  • Healthcare, PTO, 401K

Source: Nen Creative careers (Ashby)

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