Senior Brand & Marketing Designer

Who We Are

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.

Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.

We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.

Our Values

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Move Fast: We act with speed and precision, breaking down big challenges into achievable steps.

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Focus: We complete one goal at a time with care, collaborating as a team to deliver features with precision.

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Balance: Sustained performance comes from rest and recovery. We ensure a healthy work-life balance to keep you at your best.

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Craftsmanship: Innovation through excellence. Every detail matters, and we take pride in mastering our craft.

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Minimal: Simplicity drives our innovation. We eliminate complexity through discipline and focus on what truly matters.

What We're Looking For

We’re hiring a Senior Marketing & Brand Designer to help scale Lightning AI’s brand and marketing output as the company grows. This role focuses on building and executing clear, consistent, high-quality design across our website, campaigns, sales materials, events, video, and internal assets.

You’ll work across brand systems and execution—turning complex technical ideas into simple, confident visuals and narratives. This is a hands-on role for a senior designer who can operate independently, collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, and Sales, and raise the quality bar across everything we ship.

You’ll join the Design team and report to the Chief Design Officer. This is a hybrid role based in either our New York City or San Francisco office with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $160,000-$200,000.

What You’ll Do

• Own and execute brand, web, and marketing design across campaigns, product launches, events, and sales enablement.

• Build and evolve Lightning AI’s design system, visual library, brand assets, and templates to support scale and consistency.

• Partner closely with Product, Marketing and Sales to deliver high-quality assets for web, social, ads, events, decks, and collateral.

• Design wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for marketing and product surfaces.

• Support light motion, animation, and video work (2D motion, kinetic type, basic editing and color correction).

• Design limited-run company swag and internal assets tied to launches, milestones, and events.

• Ensure visual consistency across all external and internal touchpoints as the company evolves post-merger.

• Balance speed and quality—ship work quickly without lowering standards.

What You’ll Need

• 6+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or product design at a high-growth SaaS, developer tools, or technical platform company.

• A strong portfolio showing end-to-end work: brand systems, campaigns, web, and sales enablement—not just one-off visuals.

• Experience designing for technical audiences (developers, ML engineers, researchers) and enterprise buyers.

• Proven ability to simplify complex ideas into clear, effective design and storytelling.

• Deep experience building and maintaining design systems, templates, and brand guidelines.

• Strong web design fundamentals: layout, typography, responsive design, accessibility.

• Comfort working cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Sales, and Leadership.

• Ability to work with incomplete inputs, make decisions, and iterate quickly.

• Proficiency in Figma; strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.

• Strong visual judgment, attention to detail, and clarity of taste.

• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions.

• Bonus: experience with AI/ML products, infrastructure platforms, or open-source communities.

• Bonus: experience supporting rebrands, mergers, or evolving brand narratives.

What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days

• You understand Lightning AI’s product, audience, and post-merger narrative well enough to design independently.

• You’ve shipped production-ready design across web, marketing, and sales functions with minimal oversight.

• Core brand and marketing templates are documented, cleaned up, and easier for teams to use.

• Design quality and consistency across campaigns, decks, and web visibly improves.

• Marketing and Sales trust you as a go-to design partner who delivers reliably and on time.

• You’ve identified clear opportunities to simplify, standardize, or raise the bar across our brand system.

Benefits and Perks

We offer competitive base salaries and equity with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter. For our international employees, we work with our EOR to pay you in your local currency and provide equitable benefits across the globe.

In the US, we offer:

• Medical, dental and vision

• Life and AD&D insurance

• Flexible paid time off including winter closure

• Paid family leave benefits

• $500 monthly meal reimbursement, including groceries & food delivery services

• $500 one time home office stipend

• $1,000 annual learning & development stipend

• 100% Citibike membership (NYC only)

• $45/month gym membership

• Additional various medical and mental health services

At Lightning AI, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that diverse teams drive innovation and create better products. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are dedicated to building a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute to their fullest potential.