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Brand Designer

Design · Full-time · New York; San Francisco

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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're looking for an exceptional brand designer who can help define and evolve Cursor’s visual identity as we scale to a universal platform for building software. As we grow, we’re building a brand studio focused on setting a high bar for creative excellence in a fast-moving company where brand and design play a meaningful role. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the Cursor brand and contribute to a design function that matches the ambition of our mission.

What you'll do

  • Evolve Cursor’s brand identity and create scalable visual systems across product, marketing, and community

  • Drive hands-on design from concept through execution across digital, print, video, and events

  • Craft compelling narratives through design that communicate our vision for the future of software creation

  • Design for multiple audiences — from experienced developers to designers exploring code for the first time

  • Collaborate with product designers to ensure brand consistency across the user experience

  • Collaborate with external partners and provide clear creative feedback

  • Ship fast, iterate constantly. Let the brand evolve as the product and company grow

You may be a fit if

  • You have a portfolio demonstrating strong visual, typographic, and strategic thinking across formats — from digital campaigns to brand systems and events

  • You’ve built or evolved brands for technical products, developer-focused companies, or culturally defining brands

  • You have a proven track record working in fast-paced, high-growth companies with speed, ambiguity, and complexity

  • You think in systems and can translate complex concepts into scalable, accessible design

  • You have strong art direction skills, with the ability to set a clear creative bar and guide external creative partners

  • You can articulate design decisions and rally teams around a creative vision

  • You can contribute to brand voice and messaging when needed

  • You’re ambitious, opinionated, and comfortable taking ownership to push work forward

  • [Nice to have] Experience working at both fast-paced startups and agencies

  • [Nice to have] Background in web design, motion design, 3D or illustration

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