Sr. Visual Designer

As a Senior Visual Designer at Cantina, you shape how our AI-powered social platform looks and feels. You'll be the keeper of our brand across every surface-from the website and campaigns to launch films, title treatments, in-app announcements, and printed posters. You develop visual concepts, get others excited about them, and execute the details yourself, with great typography, bold composition, and images that stop people in their tracks.

What you'll do

• Own and evolve the visual identity across web, social, print, campaigns, and in-app product marketing surfaces
• Lead art direction for campaigns, product launches, and branded content, developing concepts, mood boards, visual references, and design treatments that give the work clear direction
• Shape the look of launch films, trailers, and feature videos for major product moments, designing and animating where it fits your strengths
• Create exceptional graphic design: campaign identities, key art, posters, title treatments, layouts, social assets, and launch materials with strong typography and a distinctive visual language
• Build and maintain the brand system across typography, color, composition, imagery, iconography, and motion, equipping a growing creative team with the tools and direction to make consistently great work
• Art direct AI-generated imagery and video, making deliberate choices about style, lighting, color, framing, and composition, then refining and finishing the assets
• Work alongside video editors, motion designers, illustrators, and AI filmmakers, giving specific visual feedback and staying involved through final execution
• Design websites, landing pages, and in-app marketing surfaces that bring the brand to life and make the product easy to understand
• Create motion graphics, animated typography, and transitions that extend the visual identity into video
• Stay hands-on: explore different directions, build the assets, sweat the spacing, and get the work out into the world

What you bring

• A portfolio grounded in graphic design and brand identity, with strong examples of art direction across campaigns and multiple mediums (include a reel if you have one)
• Exceptional typography, layout, composition, color, and image-making skills-you can make a single poster feel special and carry that same idea across an entire campaign
• The ability to take a loose brief and turn it into a compelling visual concept, then direct and execute the work through production
• Great taste and the ability to explain your design decisions-you know when a design needs more energy, more restraint, or a completely different idea
• Strong web design skills and experience translating a brand into responsive digital experiences
• Proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Experience incorporating generative AI into your creative process, with the craft to art direct, composite, retouch, and finish the output
• The ability to ship launch assets on aggressive timelines, iterate quickly on feedback, and keep quality high when deadlines move

Nice to have

• Hands-on motion design and motion graphics experience, especially animated typography, brand animation, and video graphics
• Experience with motion and video tools such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or AI video tools

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $200,000-$260,000, with final compensation determined by skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive market data
• Generous company equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
• 42 days of paid time off annually: 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, and 2 floating holidays
• Generous parental leave and fertility support
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Lifestyle spending account of $500 per month
• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
• One Medical membership

About Cantina

Cantina is a new social platform founded by Sean Parker with an advanced AI character creator. The platform lets users create lifelike AI bots and characters that can interact across voice, video, and text, enabling people to share personalized content and have seamless group conversations.