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SandboxAQ is a high-growth AI company delivering Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022.
The Design team is unified across brand, creative, and product, with designers embedded in Business Units. This is the first dedicated hire for brand and visual design, reporting to the VP of Design.
You will set the creative direction for how SandboxAQ shows up across mediums and execute it across six domains: life sciences, chemistry, financial services, navigation, AI operations, and cybersecurity. Each domain deserves its own visual expression while maintaining cohesion as SandboxAQ.
Key responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the SandboxAQ brand: set creative vision, build the design system (visual identity, components, guidelines, brand architecture for sub-brands). You will be the most senior voice on brand at the company.
- Own the corporate web presence end-to-end: design, build, and maintain sandboxaq.com and related properties (currently Webflow). Work directly in the CMS rather than handing specs to others.
- Produce high-craft work yourself: conference and event graphics, brochures, one-pagers, infographics, executive and go-to-market materials. Treat each piece as a chance to push the system forward.
- Build scalable design processes and resources: deck templates, brand kits, asset libraries, and repeatable processes that enable self-serve high-quality work across the company.
- Partner across the company and direct outside help when needed. Work with product designers, creative media, marketing, and go-to-market teams as a design partner brought in early to shape problems.
This is a hands-on role with no brand practice to inherit and no team to delegate to; the vision gets built through the work itself.
REQUIREMENTS:
- ~8+ years crafting brand systems, graphic design, and web design
- Hands-on fluency with a modern CMS or visual web platform (Webflow, HTML/CSS), with ability to take a site from design through build, launch, and ongoing maintenance yourself
- Proven experience building design systems or component libraries (brand kits, templates, asset libraries) that non-designers genuinely adopted
- Range with coherence: evidence of designing across visually distinct domains or audiences while holding a recognizable through-line; ability to work with dense scientific and AI subject matter (LQMs, agentic systems, quantum-era security) and turn complex technical concepts into clear visual designs
- Comfort building from scratch and working independently; established a brand or web practice where none existed; actively use AI tools in workflow; can write/present to win support for ideas
HIGHLY DESIRED:
- Motion, animation, or interactive web/UI experience
- Building interactive, web-native alternatives to static PDFs and decks
- Brand or web experience in science, deep tech, healthcare, or other technically demanding fields
- Baseline SEO and accessibility literacy
- Print and production experience
