Brand Designer

Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management.

Our platform combines AI agents automated financial workflows and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.

Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts Tushy Rocco Sabah Still Here Alice Mushrooms Original Grain birddogs and more.

Our team includes alumni of Shopify Square Toast Rippling and McKinsey.

Weve raised $42M in equity from Acrew FirstMark Mayfield and Two Sigma Ventures.

Were hiring a brand and motion designer to build Highbeams visual identity from the ground up and make it move. Youll work closely product and GTM and work alongside our founders on how the company presents itself. This is a full-stack brand role. Identity campaigns motion illustration: you define them systematize them and ship them yourself.

Since weve never hired for this role before were hoping this to be a contract to start engagement with the hopes of it converting to full time. Which also means were open to remote candidates as well but would prefer in person.

• The brand. Highbeam is a serious financial platform that doesnt yet look like one. Youll help build and maintain the identity from the foundations type color logo illustration the visual expression of our voice and turn it into guidelines and kits the rest of the team can actually use without asking you first.
  

• Marketing surfaces. launch campaigns lifecycle email social paid creative sales and event collateral. Youll take concepts from idea to shipped and bring in external partners when the work is bigger than one person.
  

• Motion. Launch films and social video on the marketing side; transitions empty states onboarding and Lumas thinking states on the product side. Youll define how Highbeam moves and hand production-ready assets to engineering.
  

• Illustration and 3D. Cash flow working capital ad spend an AI analyst reasoning about someones money abstract concepts that need a visual language before theyre understandable. Youll build the system that explains them.
  
  

• 4 years in brand design graphic design or art direction ideally on consumer or modern tech brands. Were open to a wide range of experiences and seniority for the right talent.
  

• A portfolio with exceptional visual execution across surfaces web mobile social email print. A portfolio is required; applications without one wont be reviewed.
  

• Obsessive about fundamentals: type layout color composition hierarchy and able to apply them across disciplines rather than only the one you trained in.
  

• Real motion chops. After Effects Cavalry Rive or equivalent with comfort shipping to an engineering team and responding to format sizing and performance requirements.

Youll thrive at Highbeam if...

• You love working in-person with a high-performing team

• You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic low-ego environment

• You are proactive and self-directed and you excel in ambiguous fast moving environments

• You care about delivering a polished customer experience

• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech AI or early-stage startups

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Comprehensive health & benefits package

• Generous PTO

• $1K/year stipend to purchase our customers products

• $100/mo wellness stipend

• Yearly offsitelast year we went to Mexico City!

• In-office perks: Commute covered and $20/day lunch stipend

• Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo a short walk from the ACE BDFM NQRW 1 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near St. Andrew Station.

Required Experience:

IC