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Founding Designer
Our Mission Human time and effort is the rarest thing in the universe. The fact that so many people hate what they do for work is a disaster on multiple levels. Consider theQuiet lives of miserymany missed generational talents due to circumstance?
Dex’s mission is to close the gap between Talent & Opportunity, because we believe that work and being productive are part of the human condition—regardless of AI, human passion, ingenuity, or desire still drive human purpose. A future where technology helps every individual understand their strengths, fit for purpose, and unique abilities, while connecting them with opportunities where they’ll thrive?
From this effort, we’re building teams to foster more people doing things they love — this leads to a happier, better, and more productive world.
We’re starting by connecting the world’s most ambitious software engineers with the companies that deserve them.
About the Role
As our Founding Designer at Dex, you’ll enhance the visual identity, brand presence, and quality design assets of one of the most ambitious early-stage companies in the talent marketplace.
Dex supports trusted Engineers to discover fulfilling work and connect them with companies that align with their values. Dex positions its branding strategically to both B2B (corporate buyers) and B2C (engineers)—balancing the precise with the impactful.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape and uphold a cohensive visual brand framework, from technical refinement to custom digital touchpoints
- Own end-to-end design initiatives that drive brand awareness: email campaigns, Dex website, onboarding sequences, white papers, and research assets
- Craft visual storytelling—balancing creativity with scalability, ensuring our message moves people to action
- Ensure rapid, agile execution, effortlessly prioritizing multiple ongoing projects while maintaining high-quality standards
- Apply data-driven iteration—A/B test visual experiments, adapt based on engagement metrics, and deliver the highest-performing assets
- Impress through motion graphics—enhancing digital assets, social content, and brand consistency across touchpoints
- Integrate cutting-edge AI tools (Claude included)—leveraging their potential to elevate efficiency and creativity
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What You’ll Do
Core Responsibilities
- Shape a cohesive brand paradigm—Maintain and defend consistency across visually driven assets, tone, and digital experiences in a hyper-growth environment
- End-to-end ownership of email design, website traps, onboarding flows, and documentation storytelling ensuring that each design is both factually engaging and inspired
- Translate complex ideas into smooth user journeys and vibrant visual narratives that inspire action and connection
- Execute with velocity—Efficiently juggle multiple concurrent campaigns, whilst upholding the highest creative standards
- Design for measurable impact – Actively use engagement analytics, A/B tests to consistently elevate performance
- Apply motion design expertise – Accelerate visual storytelling with dynamic, eye-catching animations across digital touchpoints
- Curate AI adoption – Utilize Claude tokens or AI assistance to streamline workflows and foster creative innovations
Core Values
- Creative Leadership — Empower bold design, share the vision across teams
- Clear Communication – Collaborate with engineers, product, marketing to deliver website, email, landing pages in record time
- Execution Driven — Execute fast, refine faster
Experience & Skills
Required
- 5+ years as a Graphic/Brand/Digital Designer, ideally with startup tech experience and exposure to agency environments.
- Strong hands-on design skills backed by a diverse portfolio showing conceptual thinking, commercial impact, and performance-driven digital assets.
- Exceptionally analytical: adapt delivery, type clarity, layout decisions, symbolic polish and visual composition—distinct execution at every step.
- Extensive brand sensibility— preferably building brand architecture or design systems from scratch in disruptive spaces
- Ability to efficiently navigate Figma providing precision, Framer deployed with ease, and Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator/Photshop) for final outputs.
- Motion Graphic talent – competent at applying animation principles to advertising or platform frameworks.
- Self-starter with proactive problem-solving, able to pivot teased responsibilities whilst collaborating autonomously.
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Nice to Have
- Prior branding expertise on tech products for engineers.
- Additional motion graphics skills or experience in responsive communications or **web:
- Deep UX/UCS acumen—balancing user-centric workflows with innovative brand development.
What We Offer
Team Level
- Above-market salary—Because we prioritise team talent matching ambition
- Significant equity—Our equity packages genuinly prop up equity
- Full private healthcare, dental insurance giving you space to live for
- Exclusive fertility & parental support including access to high-tier medical attention.
Wellness
- Macbook Pro with Pro Kit plus Marsden covering your additional hardware
- Premium gym membership and a well-being stipend
- **Claude tokens"always available for personal and vocational creativity.
- Whatever you need approach – unrestricted accessibility to resources/support
Culture
- Regular social and team offsites—providing relaxed settings and digital slightly
- Flexible hygiene work, full-time roles with no defined location requirement
- Mission-led social — we build a world where purpose equals payoff
- Annual company trip offering igniting team offsite an innovative cohesive experience!
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