Senior Brand Designer - Circle

About Us

Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 270 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites.

About the Role

As a Senior Brand Designer at Circle, you'll play a key role in shaping one of our most valuable assets—our brand.

This role sits within our Design Studio team—the creative engine behind all of Circle's marketing design—and focuses on evolving how Circle looks, feels, and communicates across every customer touchpoint. From product launches and campaigns to events, advertising, social, motion, and visual identity systems, you'll help create a brand that's instantly recognizable and impossible to ignore.

What You'll Be Doing

• Help define and evolve Circle's visual identity across every customer-facing touchpoint.
• Lead the creative direction for major product launches, campaigns, announcements, and strategic initiatives.
• Design scalable brand systems that work across web, social, paid advertising, events, presentations, email, video, and product marketing.
• Develop compelling visual narratives for new product launches, translating complex software and AI capabilities into simple, engaging brand experiences.
• Create campaign identities, illustrations, iconography, graphics, presentations, and launch assets that elevate the Circle brand.
• Develop storyboards and creative concepts for launch videos, motion pieces, and product announcements, collaborating closely with motion designers throughout production.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Content, Motion, and Leadership to define the visual direction for major company moments.
• Build reusable brand systems, templates, and creative frameworks that improve consistency and speed across the company.
• Continuously evolve Circle's design language by researching emerging trends across branding, AI, motion, and digital design.
• Present creative concepts confidently, communicate design rationale, and iterate based on feedback.
• Maintain exceptional attention to detail, ensuring every asset reflects the quality expected from the Circle brand.
• Research emerging AI-powered creative tools and identify opportunities to improve our design workflows.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Strong alignment with our values.
• Proficiency in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
• 5+ years of experience as a Brand Designer or Visual Designer within software, AI, or technology companies.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional brand design across campaigns, product launches, visual identities, and digital experiences.
• Experience building and evolving brands for modern software companies, with a strong understanding of how to communicate complex products through simple, engaging design.
• Strong understanding of SaaS, AI, and technology design trends.
• Experience developing creative concepts and storyboards for product launches, brand films, motion graphics, or campaign videos.
• Exceptional typography, composition, color, layout, and visual storytelling skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong understanding of scalable design systems and visual identity frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills to present ideas and collaborate asynchronously across teams.

Compensation & Benefits

Circle offers U.S.-benchmarked compensation globally, equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants, and 35 days of paid time off each year. We’re a remote-only team that comes together twice a year for company retreats in incredible destinations around the world.