The Role: Senior Brand Designer

As a Brand Designer at Knak, you’ll shape and evolve how our brand shows up in the world. From campaigns to product storytelling, you’ll create visuals that are not only beautiful—but clear, consistent, and impactful design that strengthens our market presence and supports demand generation.

You’ll work closely with marketing, product, and leadership to bring ideas to life and ensure everything we create feels unmistakably Knak. You’ll be balancing consistency and creativity, moving quickly, and designing for a B2B audience without sacrificing originality. This is a role for someone who cares deeply about craft, thrives in collaboration, and is excited to push creative boundaries.

Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing your design projects and craft quality.

What You’ll Do

Evolve and maintain Knak’s visual brand identity
- Audit existing assets and define scalable visual systems that bring consistency across every touchpoint

Develop and manage brand guidelines, templates, and toolkits
- Create clear, usable resources that empower teams to produce high-quality, on-brand work

Design assets for marketing campaigns
- Design and produce on-brand creative assets across web, social, email, paid campaigns, presentations, webinars, events, and sales enablement materials that drive engagement and conversion

Support product and event marketing
- Translate product features and stories into compelling visuals for launches, demos, and events

Contribute to the evolution of our visual narrative
- Collaborate on ideas, explore new creative directions, and experiment with AI tools to expand what’s possible

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience in brand or graphic design, ideally in-house at a SaaS, tech, or B2B company, or within an agency supporting similar clients 
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and Google Slides
• Solid fundamentals in typography, color, layout, and visual hierarchy
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• A collaborative, feedback-driven mindset with strong communication skills with both creative and non-creative stakeholders
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates polished, effective design across digital and print
• Experience using AI or generative tools to enhance creativity and efficiency

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in B2B SaaS or technology branding
• Experience working on landing pages and web design systems
• Understanding of B2B marketing principles and how design supports pipeline, positioning, and customer trust
• Familiarity with motion design, video, or animation 

Our Engineering Team:

At Knak, we build groundbreaking software used by marketers at many of the world’s top companies. As engineers, we foster a transparent, collaborative and blameless culture. We emphasize continuous learning and encourage our engineers to experiment in search of creative ways to solve problems and help our customers.

We have a small but rapidly growing team where you'll be given many opportunities to grow and hone your skills across our entire tech stack. Our belief is that to build great software, we have to equip ourselves with the best tools, technologies, and processes.

The Role

We are looking for an AI Engineer to bridge the gap between internal teams and software development. In this role, you will work closely with internal teams and the DevOps team to design, build, and optimize internal tools and workflows that enable AI efficiency across the organization.

You will leverage your full-stack development skills alongside your cloud infrastructure expertise to create reliable, scalable systems that empower our internal teams to do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Enable AI Efficiency: Partner with cross-functional internal teams and DevOps to conceptualize, build, and deploy internal tools and workflows that leverage AI to streamline processes.

• Full-Stack Development: Develop user-friendly, high-performance internal web applications using Laravel (PHP) and TypeScript for microservices.

• Infrastructure & Cloud: Deploy, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS (specifically AWS CDK).

• Pipeline Ownership: Collaborate with internal teams to maintain, optimize, and take ownership of our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Database & API Design: Develop and optimize RESTful API endpoints and effectively manage SQL databases through query optimization and optimal indexing.

• Observability & Security: Implement monitoring and performance tracking (e.g., Datadog) and execute plans to ensure the continued security of our cloud environments.

• Code Quality: Actively participate in code reviews, champion clean architecture, and provide constructive mentorship to peers.

Qualifications

• Experience: experience in software software development and DevOps/Cloud infrastructure.

• Frontend Proficiency: Solid understanding of JavaScript frameworks (specifically Vue.js, but React/Angular experience translates well).

• Backend Proficiency: Strong experience with Node.js/TypeScript, alongside familiarity with PHP and the Laravel framework.

• DevOps Skills: Proven track record building applications with Docker, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub.

• Database Expertise: Strong experience with SQL and relational data modeling.

• Testing & Monitoring: Experience with TDD/automated testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, PHPUnit) and building Datadog dashboards.

• Architecture Knowledge: Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and SaaS release concepts.

• Communication: Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to work closely with internal stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Goals

• Be part of a full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

• Be a team player with an eye for visual design and software usability.

• Champion the adoption of clean, maintainable, and reusable code practices to foster efficient, scalable, and collaborative development.