Senior Brand Designer
cursor Open · verified Oct 7, 2026 At a glance
Senior Brand Marketing role at cursor. San Francisco · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $165,150–$210,250.
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What you'll do
- Develop the visual identity across type, color, layout and imagery, then document it for other teams to use
- Create AI-supported templates, tools and generators so teams can produce consistent brand work independently
- Take campaigns from initial concept to finished work across launch assets, web, social, paid, print and other channels
- Brief and guide agencies and freelancers, giving direct feedback to bring their work up to your standard
- Work with marketing, product, engineering and leadership to shape new brand applications and explain your decisions
What you bring
- At least six years working in brand design, whether in-house or at an agency or studio
- You use AI coding tools, especially Cursor, and can make simple tools, scripts, prototypes and web pages yourself
- Your portfolio includes brand systems and completed campaigns
- You work fluently in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
Who this fits
This is a hands-on senior role for a self-directed designer who can move quickly across varied work and is comfortable with ambiguity. You’ll lead projects from early ideas through delivery while helping build the brand foundation. The role is onsite in San Francisco.
From the employer
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Brand Designer to help shape how SpaceXAI shows up in the world. This role is built for someone who has built brand systems in fast-moving environments, cares deeply about craft, and brings an AI-first mindset to how creative work gets made. You’ll join the Brand Studio, the team behind the brand across the entire SpaceXAI ecosystem (from Grok and Grok Bot to X), and help shape both the brand system itself and how it comes to life in our campaigns.
This is a hands-on role. Much of the foundation is still being built, so you’ll spend real time designing and making things yourself. It also comes with significant ownership: you’ll lead projects from first concept through final execution, and your work will help set the bar for how the brand evolves.
What you’ll do
Brand system: Evolve and extend the visual identity (logo, typography, color, layout, imagery, and graphic language) and document it so other teams can apply it correctly.
Workflows & toolkits: Turn recurring design work into repeatable, AI-assisted workflows: templates, tools, and generators that let marketing, product, and other teams produce on-brand work without you in the room.
Campaigns: Concept and design campaigns end to end, from first idea through final production, across key visuals, launch assets, web, social, paid, out-of-home, and print.
Creative direction: Direct agencies and freelancers with clear briefs and candid feedback so the output meets the bar you’d set yourself.
Collaboration: Partner with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership; bring a brand point of view to new surfaces as they appear, and present your thinking clearly to senior stakeholders.
Range at speed: Move between projects quickly while holding a consistently high bar, and keep improving the process, not just the output.
What you bring
6+ years of brand design experience, in-house or at an agency or studio.
Fluency in AI coding tools, especially Cursor. You can build your own tools, scripts, prototypes, and simple web pages instead of waiting on engineering.
A portfolio that shows both brand system work and shipped campaigns. Bonus if it includes tools or workflows you built.
Sharp typography, layout, and art direction instincts.
A systems mindset: you naturally turn one-off tasks into reusable processes and think about how creative work scales.
Conviction in your design decisions and the ability to explain why they matter, to designers, marketers, and leadership alike.
Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Self-directed, fast, and energized by variety and ambiguity.
Nice to have
Experience building or relaunching a brand identity at a fast-growing tech company.
Motion sensibility, enough to design with motion in mind and direct motion designers.
Experience leading agencies on large, multi-channel campaigns.
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