Blacksmith
Brand Designer
$180K–$220K
SF / NYC · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a brand design role.
About the job
Own and evolve Blacksmith’s brand across its products and communications, translating complex technical concepts into polished visuals for developers.
What you'll do
- Own the brand’s look and voice across the website, social, events, decks, and swag.
- Develop a flexible visual system for multiple product lines and create launch narratives and assets with founders and engineering.
- Ship and iterate quickly while raising the team’s standard of craft and quality.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in a brand design role.
- Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and work across web, motion, print, and presentations, with strong typography and layout.
- Evidence of building or meaningfully evolving a brand for a technical product.
- Ability to explain design decisions and bring engineers and founders along.
Nice to have
- Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or complex B2B products.
- Expertise leveraging agentic tools to expedite prototyping.
Pay
$180K – $220K USD base salary
Tools
Hacker News, X
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