Staff Brand Designer

As a Staff Brand Designer at TRM Labs, you'll own the most complex and high-visibility brand design work across campaigns, web, social, events, sales and marketing, reports, and every surface the brand touches. You'll help define what visual excellence looks like as TRM's brand continues to evolve, and you'll raise the quality floor for everyone around you through your work, design direction, and mentorship. This is an individual-contributor craft role that can grow.

What you'll do

• Set and uphold the craft standard for TRM's brand across campaigns, web, social, events, thought-leadership reports, and sales and marketing collateral.
• Lead the most complex and high-visibility brand design projects end-to-end, from brief through delivery, at consistently high craft.
• Partner with creative and marketing leadership to evolve TRM's creative direction, defining and executing visual standards across typography, imagery, layout, and color.
• Translate complex, data-heavy subject matter such as blockchain intelligence, investigations, and risk into infographics, data visualizations, and shareable graphics that make dense information clear for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide hands-on craft oversight across brand output by reviewing work, raising the quality floor, and helping the team make better decisions.
• Build and steward brand systems and documentation that scale across programs, formats, and audiences without losing soul, and know when to break the system for the right reason.
• Commission and art-direct external creatives including agencies, illustrators, and motion designers.
• Mentor and elevate other designers through critique, pairing, and direct feedback, raising craft through the work.
• Advance the team's AI-native design practice by bringing AI-assisted tools into concepting, iteration, and production, and helping teammates build the same fluency. Human taste and judgment lead; AI extends the range and speed of what you can explore.
• Collaborate with brand strategists, copywriters, product marketing, and leadership on how TRM shows up across every channel.
• Treat briefs as a floor, not a ceiling. Push past them, take big swings, and explore new formats.

What you bring

• 6-8+ years of brand design experience in high-craft environments such as agency, editorial, elevated consumer, or design-forward tech.
• An excellent portfolio that demonstrates mastery of typography, layout, color, and composition across a range of brand contexts.
• A clear aesthetic point of view: you can articulate what makes something great and what makes something fall short, built through years of rigorous practice.
• Fluency in brand systems: you understand how to build for scale and consistency, and you've stewarded a brand through growth or change.
• Proven ability to make complex information land through data visualization, infographics, and editorial design that turn dense material into something clear and compelling.
• Experience operating at a staff level: you work autonomously, influence without authority, and make decisions that shape the output of an entire team.
• Deep fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) across both digital and print formats.
• Experience with digital and web design, including building component libraries and working with developers.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills: you can communicate the process, intent, and impact of your design decisions with clarity.
• An AI-first mindset: hands-on experience bringing generative AI tools into real creative work, a clear-eyed view of where they help and where they fall short, and a genuine appetite to keep growing those skills as the tools evolve.
• Curiosity, restraint, and a genuine passion for doing work that's worth doing.

Nice to have

• Motion design and animation
• 3D design

What we offer

• Base salary range of $202,000-$220,000 (US-based; compensation adjusted for other geographies)
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to detect and stop illicit activity across blockchains, fighting fraud, terrorism financing, and other financial crime. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.