Brand Designer

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

The Role: Brand Designer

Altana is looking for a strong Brand Designer to join our creative team. You will translate complex AI and trade concepts into clear, compelling, and human-centered design systems and visual touchpoints. You will work closely with marketing, product, and leadership to ensure our brand is consistent, distinctive, and scalable, while playing a critical, hands-on role in executing the Altana brand identity across a variety of marketing and sales enablement channels.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

• Brand Design: Execute day-to-day production design work, including digital advertisements, social media graphics, and website assets.
• Sales Enablement: Design and rapidly iterate on professional sales decks, presentation templates, and internal communications, ensuring visual consistency across all key external communications.
• Marketing Collateral: Create and update a range of enablement assets such as one-pagers, case studies, event signage, and email graphics.
• Brand Adherence: Serve as a brand guardian for day-to-day assets, ensuring all materials strictly adhere to established brand guidelines, including but not limited to typography, color, illustration, and more. 
• Brand Evolution: Ideate and innovate alongside the Head of Brand and creative team to continue to evolve and grow the brand.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the creative, marketing, and sales teams to translate the team’s goals and content into compelling visual stories.
• Asset Management: Assist in organizing and maintaining the design asset library and foundational brand files.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 1-3 years of experience in graphic design, brand design, or a related field (internships and academic projects are welcome).
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a solid understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, and clean, scalable design execution.
• Proficiency in design software like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and presentation tools (Google Slides, PowerPoint, Keynote).
• Ability to think strategically about brand while executing at a high craft level
• Ability to manage multiple production deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a passion for turning complex ideas into simple, beautiful designs.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and explain design decisions clearly.

This role is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA  with hybrid work flexibility and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Williamsburg office.

US Salary Range and Benefits

Salary Range: $85,000 - $105,000

Compensation & Equity: The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role.

Top-Tier Benefits for Full-Time Employees Include:

• Flexible Time Off (FTO): Altana operates with an FTO policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
• Parental Leave: Industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL), providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents, all paid at 100% of your base salary.
• Health Benefits: Full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option is also available.
• Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you.
• 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
• Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking.
• Wellness: Every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
• Pet Insurance: Keep your pets healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
• Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
• Dependent Care FSA: Allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses.

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Our Values

Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are, what we stand for, and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire, design, build, and connect with each other and our customers.

• Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word, meeting commitments, and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver, to speak openly, and to hold ourselves accountable.
• Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity, our work must withstand challenges, evolve with conditions, and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt, we support each other, and we keep moving forward.
• Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus, creativity, and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable, we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
• Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big, complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed, but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger, and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.