Sr. Brand Designer (AI)

Location: Onsite in San Francisco or New York, United States

Annual salary: $172,000–$250,000 USD

Company

Cursor AI is building an AI-focused product ecosystem, including Grok, Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X, supported by a full Super Intelligence stack.

What you will do

• Evolve and document the visual identity across logo, typography, color, layout, imagery, and graphic language.
• Create repeatable AI-assisted workflows, templates, tools, and generators for marketing, product, and other teams.
• Concept and design campaigns from initial idea through final production across key visuals, launch assets, web, social, paid, out-of-home, and print.
• Direct agencies and freelancers through clear briefs and candid feedback.
• Partner with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership, presenting brand recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Move quickly between projects while maintaining a high quality bar and improving creative processes.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of brand design experience in-house, at an agency, or at a studio.
• Portfolio demonstrating both brand system work and shipped campaigns.
• Strong typography, layout, and art direction skills.
• Systems mindset with the ability to turn one-off tasks into reusable processes.
• Ability to explain and defend design decisions to designers, marketers, and leadership.
• Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Self-directed, fast, and comfortable with variety and ambiguity.
• Ability to work onsite at the San Francisco or New York office.

Nice to have

• Fluency in AI coding tools, especially Cursor, with the ability to build tools, scripts, prototypes, and simple web pages.
• Tools or workflows built independently.
• Experience building or relaunching a brand identity at a fast-growing technology company.
• Motion sensibility and ability to design with motion in mind and direct motion designers.
• Experience leading agencies on large, multi-channel campaigns.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on role within the Brand Studio supporting the broader product ecosystem.
• Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.