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Modern Intelligence is hiring its first dedicated designer to establish brand direction across all digital and physical media. You will work closely with the executive and marketing teams to create a comprehensive visual identity and execute it across multiple touchpoints.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing brand book and design guidelines
- Creating presentation decks and video assets
- Designing social media and campaign graphics
- Building the marketing website and product pages
- Designing the Sovereign operator app UI
- Producing trade-show booths, banners, and environmental graphics
- Creating digital and physical one-pagers
- Designing merchandise
Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign, edge-targeting software for unmanned systems (UAVs, USVs, UUVs, and other unmanned vehicles). The software runs on vehicle computers, detects and classifies targets from onboard cameras, maintains tracking through signal loss, and provides terminal guidance—all while functioning without GPS or radio connectivity. The company has held Department of War contracts including work with Air Force Special Operations and SOCOM, and has raised over $12 million from investors including Bedrock, Vine, Contrary, Air Street, and others.
This is an on-site role in Austin, Texas. You will be the company's first dedicated designer, setting visual direction for a deep-tech defense company serving a technical, engineering-focused audience.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of professional design experience (brand, visual, product, or hybrid) with shipped work in both digital and physical media
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped work: presentations/decks, web or product UI, and print/booth/environmental pieces
- Ability to design for technical B2B or defense/dual-use products and explain design choices to founders and engineers without design jargon
- Experience working with marketing teams and founders acting as marketers on campaigns, events, and brand systems
- Experience building digital pages with AI (landing pages, product pages, marketing sites, campaign pages)
- Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and Photoshop from concept through production files
- Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to potential work with export-controlled technology and controlled messaging
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience at a defense, dual-use, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, or deep-tech company, or agency serving those sectors
- Prior title as Brand Designer, Visual Designer, Creative Designer, or similar hybrid role
- Experience with marketing-site layout systems, component pages, and light UI polish for operator or enterprise apps
- Proficiency in Illustrator and InDesign for one-pagers, booth graphics, and merchandise
- Existing relationships with printers, booth fabricators, or production partners
- Presentation templates and masters in Google Slides and current AI presentation tools
- Short-form motion design for social and campaigns (After Effects or Jitter)
- Experience designing brand books and guidelines
- Front-end literacy to build marketing and landing pages independently
