Associate Brand Designer

You'll work in small, autonomous teams alongside senior strategists and designers, learning by doing rather than sitting on the sidelines with colleagues at the same stage of their careers.

AREA 17 is a global brand, experience, and technology agency working at the intersection of strategy and craft. It helps ambitious companies and cultural institutions transform how they show up in the world, from early-stage AI startups to some of the world's most recognized Institutions.

The Role
You'd lead brand design across digital-first projects, translating strategic positioning into visual systems and identities. Concepting and executing motion, typography, system design, and identity work, you’ll move between them depending on the brief.

Work runs in two modes: six-to-eight-week acceleration sprints that get brands to market, and six-month-plus transformations that leave clients with brand infrastructure they can own. You'll sit in small, autonomous teams alongside strategists, building for AI, climate, health, and arts-and-culture clients.

You'll ship real work within twelve weeks, after an intensive training and shadowing period. A dedicated coach one or two levels above you runs point on your development, with monthly check-ins from a Group Strategy Director.

The Package
$60,000 - $75,000
Hybrid working
Early October start date
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families
401(k) with company match
HSA with annual employer contribution
Employer-paid life insurance

The Person
You're early-career but past your first studio job - a couple of years in brand or design somewhere. You’re ideas-first, with real conceptual and typographic strength, and you pull references from well beyond graphic design.

You can read strategy and use design to express it. Curious about AI tools, but you don't need to be fluent in them yet.