Brand Identity Designer

Role & Responsibilities

  • Visual Identity Creation: Lead the design of brand identities from the ground up for deep tech startups. This means developing original logo concepts, wordmarks, symbol systems, typographic pairings, color palettes, and the broader visual language that ties it all together. The ability to generate multiple distinct creative directions from a single brief, and to push concepts beyond the obvious, is core to this role.
  • Brand System Development: Translate your identity concepts into comprehensive, production-ready brand systems. This includes building brand guidelines, usage documentation, asset libraries, and Figma component libraries that give clients everything they need to maintain consistency as they grow. You'll define the rules of the brand — not just design a logo, but architect the full visual language around it.
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  • Presentations & Pitch Decks Apply new brand identities to high-impact presentations and pitch decks for investor meetings, sales conversations, and partnership pitches. This is often one of the first places a new brand lives in the wild, so your ability to extend an identity you've just built matters enormously.
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  • Collaboration & Iteration: Work closely with HAUS' creative directors throughout the identity development process, from early concept exploration through to final delivery. You'll present multiple creative directions, incorporate feedback, and refine concepts without losing the thread. In our fast-paced sprint environment, strong creative instincts and the ability to iterate quickly are equally important.
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  • Production & Quality Control Prepare and finalize all identity files with precision (e.g., logos in every required format, color-correct files for both screen and print, and fully organized Figma libraries ready for client handoff). Conduct thorough quality checks across all deliverables to ensure files are production-ready, technically sound, and consistent with the guidelines you've defined.
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  • Brand Consistency & Asset Management: Act as a guardian of the brand identity for each client. Maintain design systems and reusable components in Figma, and create template assets (like social post formats, icon sets, presentation slide masters, etc.) to ensure a consistent visual language across all touchpoints. You'll help manage the use of logos, fonts, and styles so that everything from a banner ad to a social media post feels recognizable and on-brand.

Requirements

  • Passion for Deep Tech: You must love deep tech and be genuinely excited by cutting-edge technologies.
  • Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field. At least 2-3 years of brand design experience in an agency or in-house setting. We welcome strong internship experience and portfolio work, what matters most is your demonstrated skill and passion.
  • Design Software Proficiency: Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator and Photoshop) is required. Experience building prototypes or working with design systems in Figma is a plus. Familiarity with Adobe InDesign for layout or print projects is helpful. Motion experience with Adobe After Effects is a plus.
  • Typography & Layout Excellence: Must have exceptional typographic skills and a keen eye for detail in layouts. You understand hierarchy, white space, and typesetting nuances, and you can design content that is both visually striking and highly legible. (We'll look for evidence of strong layout, color, and typography work in your portfolio)
  • Branding Knowledge: Solid understanding of branding and visual identity fundamentals. Experience developing or working with brand guidelines and applying them consistently across digital and print media is expected. You should be able to adapt your style to fit different brand aesthetics while maintaining coherence.
  • Attention to Detail & Organization: Highly organized and able to manage multiple design projects at once without sacrificing quality. You can juggle deadlines and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment, maintaining a high level of attention to detail on each deliverable. Strong file management and version control habits are essential.
  • Communication & Teamwork: Excellent communication skills - you can clearly articulate design decisions and are receptive to feedback. Since our team is distributed, you need to be comfortable working in a remote environment, collaborating via Slack/Zoom, and proactively communicating status updates. Being a team player is crucial; we value positive attitudes and the ability to work constructively with colleagues across time zones.
  • Tech Savvy & Curiosity: A genuine passion for technology and innovation is important. Our clients are building world-changing tech, so an eagerness to understand subjects like AI, robotics, biotech, aerospace, etc., will help you create more informed and inspired designs. Curiosity and willingness to continually learn (about new design tools as well as new scientific domains) will set you up for success.

Preferences

  • Motion design capabilities are a big plus. For example, basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects to create simple animations or animated GIFs.
  • Any experience with 3D elements (Cinema 4D, Blender) is welcome but not required.
  • Overall, an "extra gear" in areas like illustration, animation, or interactive design will help your work stand out (we love multi-talented creatives!).

About HAUS

HAUS is the world’s first integrated public relations and creative services agency purpose built for deep tech startups and scaleups. In January 2022, we set out on a mission to accelerate the adoption of technologies that maximize freedom, material abundance, and human flourishing. Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to support more than 100 startups, scaleups, venture firms, research labs, and other organizations in industries including artificial intelligence, aerospace, biotechnology, climate, defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, quantum computing, semiconductors, robotics, and more.

Salary Range

Compensation

$115,000 - $130,000

Location

Remote

Benefits

By joining HAUS, you'll be an integral part of a close-knit team and your contributions will have a direct and meaningful impact on the successes of our clients, our agency, and the future of our society. We are a small but rapidly growing agency and as an early employee at HAUS you will be instrumental in helping us shape the culture and operational processes that will guide our growth for years to come.

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance premiums 100% covered by HAUS for employee and family plans
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401k
  • Gym membership reimbursement
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Eligible for profit sharing after 1 year of employment
  • Significant opportunities for rapid career advancement
  • Opportunity to work with startups building the coolest tech you've ever seen

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Submit Your Resume

The best candidates will have read this entire job description and send a short note demonstrating their creative excellence and enthusiasm for the specific type of work we do at HAUS to creative-careers@deeptech.agency. Include the name of the freelance position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.

Please keep in mind that we receive an overwhelming number of submissions that are written by AI. If you keep your note human and show that you actually care about what we are doing specifically here at HAUS, this will be strongly considered along with your application.