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Lead Brand Designer

Hark Open · verified Aug 2, 2026
San Jose Senior Brand Marketing

Senior Brand Marketing role at Hark. San Jose · $150,000–$300,000 base.

SalaryStated by Hark
$150,000 – $300,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Lead brand design across web, packaging, retail and creative direction
  • Shape the narrative behind Hark while holding execution to a high bar
  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary design team on the brand
  • Guide work from early ideation through to how people encounter it in the world
  • Communicate concepts clearly to keep creative direction moving

What you bring

  • A decade or more building and designing brands across many categories
  • Track record crafting brand visuals, films and guidelines
  • Strong verbal and written communication, with internal and external audiences
  • Experience hiring designers and helping them grow

Who this fits

This suits a senior brand designer who thrives at both the strategic level and in fine execution detail. You should care about craft and want to shape a brand from the ground up. The role is based in San Jose and pays a stated base of $150,000 to $300,000, varying by experience.

From the employer

About Hark

Hark is an artificial intelligence laboratory, building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world. 

We believe that artificial intelligence can be used to help offload our mental workload through thinking like us and sometimes ahead of us. Intelligence that is proactive and personalised through new models capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision and persistent memory.  

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

About the Role

We are looking for talented people to help lead our brand design at Hark. Working with or multi-disciplinary group of designers to craft the brand, web, creative direction, packaging, retail and more. You care deeply about craft and branding and are capable of working at both a high level and with incredible detail. 

You will help define the narrative of hark, while also ensuring that the execution of every detail meets our standards, from ideation to the way people see it in the world. 

You are deeply ingrained into the culture of the world, care about the mission, creatively curious and love the craft of design.

Responsibilities

  • Leading brand at Hark

Requirements

  • You have 10+ years of experience on brand building and brand design across a variety of categories.
  • Experience in crafting thoughtful, beautiful brand visuals, films and guidelines.
  • Are able to clearly communicate these concepts through a variety of ways to the team. You're highly skilled in being able to visualise the work to keep the direction moving.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, internally and externally.
  • You love the design process
  • Experience hiring and growing talent.

Compensation

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $300,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.