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Brand Designer

Outset outset.ai Open · verified Aug 5, 2026
Hybrid San Francisco Full-time Mid-level Brand Marketing

Mid-level Brand Marketing role at Outset. San Francisco · full-time · $140,000–$180,000 base.

SalaryStated by Outset
$140,000 – $180,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from OutsetOur estimate for the market: $174,625–$215,000
Below the market median of $197,500 for mid-level brand marketing roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 14 postings that stated pay, median $197,500. Last updated Aug 5, 2026.
Role brief

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

What you'll do

  • Lead visual work for campaigns, landing pages, social, email, and events
  • Turn marketing briefs into polished, on-brand creative for everyday use
  • Keep the brand system consistent and develop it across marketing touchpoints
  • Create pitch decks, sales collateral, and other customer-facing materials
  • Shape creative for paid and organic channels, launches, and feature announcements

What you bring

  • Two to four years in brand or graphic design, supported by a strong marketing portfolio
  • Startup experience taking design projects from an initial idea through completion
  • Ability to create polished work across digital, print, and social formats at speed
  • Figma skills, familiarity with AI tools, and enough web knowledge to maintain marketing sites
  • Strong typography, hierarchy, and layout judgment, plus experience with motion, video, or brand systems

Who this fits

This role suits a mid-level brand designer who can own projects from start to finish, work quickly, and handle shifting priorities. You’ll collaborate closely with marketing and product design in a full-time, hybrid role based in San Francisco.

From the employer

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.

The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.


Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.

This role sits at the intersection of brand and marketing - you'll be the primary creative force behind how Outset shows up in the world, from paid campaigns to launch moments to the content our prospects see every day. You'll work closely with the marketing team day-to-day.

Responsibilities

  • Own visual design for marketing campaigns, landing pages, social content, email, and events

  • Be the day-to-day creative partner for the marketing team - turning briefs into polished, on-brand assets fast

  • Maintain and evolve the Outset brand system across all marketing touch points

  • Design pitch decks, sales collateral, and customer-facing materials

  • Collaborate with content and demand gen on creative direction for paid and organic channels

  • Support product launches and feature announcements with marketing creative

  • Contribute to the visual language of new product launches and feature announcements

  • Work with product design for cohesive brand vision across all touch points

Qualifications

  • 2–4 years of brand or graphic design experience, ideally with a strong marketing portfolio

  • Startup experience owning projects 0-1

  • Proven ability to move quickly and produce high-quality assets across digital, print, and social formats

  • Experience in Figma; building with AI tools

  • Experience in web development basics, with the assistance of AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

  • Proficiency in updating and maintaining marketing website infrastructure

  • Strong eye for typography, hierarchy, and layout — you sweat the details

  • Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift

  • Motion design or video editing (After Effects, Lottie)

  • Experience building or maintaining a brand/design system