Brand Designer

About This Role

This role involves shaping Northwood Space's visual identity to the world. The Brand Designer will translate the company's story into high-quality visual design across its website, social channels, and external-facing materials, partnering with various teams to ensure a clear, cohesive, and evolving visual identity as the company scales. It is a hands-on position for someone with strong design fundamentals and the ambition to grow into owning larger pieces of a brand over time.

Responsibilities

• Own the visual execution of Northwood's brand, maintaining a high standard of clarity, originality, and signal across all external touchpoints while adapting design appropriately for different audiences
• Design across formats including web, socials, presentations, announcements, and marketing materials
• Move fluidly between layout, typography, and sketches as needed
• Build and maintain brand guidelines, creating and owning templates for external communications including slide decks, one-pagers, and announcements

Requirements

• Strong visual designer with great taste and attention to detail who is comfortable owning visual execution end-to-end
• Creative operator who understands how to craft a recognizable brand in a crowded industry
• Collaborative operator who works closely with stakeholders to ensure aligned, effective communication while driving independent execution
• 3–6 years of experience in brand design, graphic design, or visual design
• Strong portfolio showcasing digital, brand, and graphic design work
• Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
• Experience designing for web and social platforms

Nice to have:

• Startup experience or interest in hard tech, aerospace, infrastructure, or national security

About the Company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. Its global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail.