Brand Designer

About Radical AI

Radical AI is a materials company replacing the R&D process that currently takes 10 years and $100 million to produce a single discovery. Instead of leaving world-changing industries like aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, and space to engineer around material shortcomings, Radical invents new materials for specific performance goals in a matter of weeks. This acceleration of research is fueled by scientific agents that simulate novel compositions and then send them directly into an automated lab for physical synthesis, characterization, and validation.

Almost nobody outside our field can picture what happens inside a self-driving lab. That is the design problem. We are hiring a Brand Designer to make our work legible, arresting, and unmistakably ours across every surface we own.

The Role

Radical AI is a fast-growing deep tech company that offers its first in-house brand designer the opportunity to shape an iconic company from day one. Most designers spend a career making mature brands slightly better; in this role, you're given the freedom to create.

You will own how Radical AI looks to the world. That means the identity system and the individual asset, the campaign concept and the file that ships tomorrow morning.

Concretely, you are responsible for four surfaces. Brand and social: the daily visual output, including your own photography from inside the lab, built with our Brand Content Manager and Social Video Editor. Editorial: the art and original visualizations for every blog post and announcement. Commercial: the sales decks, one-pagers, and investor materials you will build directly with our Cofounders and sales leaders. Physical and digital environments: the website, working with our developer team, and eventually the signage and experience design of the lab itself, working with hardware.

That adds up to hundreds of assets a year. It also adds up to a rare amount of control for one designer. Nobody here will hand you a finished brief and nobody will second-guess a good decision.

What You Will Do

• Turn moodboards and campaign briefs into visual systems, then produce the assets that carry them: social graphics, event decor, swag, print, and physical production.
• Shoot original photography inside the lab, and pull from existing video, to give people a raw, authentic window into how the work actually happens.
• Partner with our Social Video Editor to upgrade the look and feel of a three-times-weekly video cadence, and adapt that footage into design assets.
• Produce the art for every blog post, and extend each story through bespoke visualizations and social graphics.
• Work with our developer team to add new modules and experiences to the website on roughly a monthly cadence.
• Partner with our Cofounders and sales leaders on sales materials, presentation decks, and one-pagers.
• Use AI tools to explore more directions, produce more variants, and animate what would otherwise sit still, so originality scales instead of bottlenecking.

What You Bring

• Five to seven years of design experience.
• A portfolio of identities and assets that show independent, professional-grade work.
• Photography skills strong enough to make our lab look heroic without staging it.
• Experience taking work through physical production.
• An ownership instinct. You find the problem and solve it rather than waiting for the brief.
• Organization plus flexibility. Priorities and the editorial calendar change often.
• Fluency with AI tools, and curiosity about where they break.
• A position on where technology design is heading, and an appetite for making something differentiated rather than duplicative.

A scientific background is explicitly not required. What matters is your ability to translate several kinds of expertise into general-audience, ownable narratives, and into sharp visual expressions of what we do and why it matters.

How We Will Know It Is Working

• Storytelling. You have a structured point of view on how design carries strategy, not just how it decorates it.
• Taste. You know what is good, and you protect the brand from slop.
• Communication. You explain your thinking clearly, and you collaborate well.
• Growth. You push your own skill set forward, and you learn out loud from what does not work.
• Prioritization. You keep several workstreams moving when deadlines shift, which they will.
• Adaptability. You surface problems early and bring options.

Working at Radical AI

We are an in-person company, currently at the Alexandria Center for Life Science in Manhattan and moving to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in September 2026. You will be in the lab, with the machines and the people, because that is where the material is.

What We Offer

A competitive compensation package also includes the best in benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, covered at 100%
• Mental health and wellness support
• Unlimited PTO and 14+ company holidays per year
• Company-wide end-of-year shutdown, including two weeks of paid time off
• 401K 
• Equity

 Disclosure Radical AI is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, disability, or veteran status.