Brand Designer
Ambrook · New York City
Ambrook helps American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient.
From volatile markets to climate shifts, independent operators face mounting pressure. While sustainable investments often yield the best long-term returns, they require financial clarity and capital that fragmented legacy systems can’t provide.
We are rebuilding the financial infrastructure that real economy operators rely on. By replacing paperwork with modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending, Ambrook gives owners the data they need to prove viability to lenders and the next generation. We empower the stewards of land and labor to make confident investments in their future.
We’re a Series B startup backed by Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and leaders at Notion, Gusto, and Vercel. We’re looking for team members to help us untangle the intersection of American industry, climate, and the economy.
The opportunity
A 1954 Census of Agriculture questionnaire hangs next to our creative director's desk. Well organized, carefully set, with a hand-drawn illustration of America. It's also just a form, made to be filled in and mailed back. Someone decided paperwork was worth that effort.
That's the standard.
What that gets you is a job shaped like this.
You'd share responsibility for where the brand goes. Working alongside our creative director.
You'd work across form factors. The standard issue: website, campaigns, lifecycle. And the oddities. We've made zines, newspapers, matchboxes, sweaters. If you can make the case for the impact, we'll make it.
You'd help work out what a brand team is when the work is partly automated. We're further along than most and we intend to show the way. Part of the job is building the tools that absorb your busywork, so your time goes to the work that actually needs you.
You'd have variety and no playbook. Most of what you make here won't have a precedent inside the company, so you'd be taking ideas from a sentence in a meeting to a finished thing.
You'll report to Ali Aas, our Creative Director, inside the Brand team, working closely with Marketing, Product Design, and other cross-functional teams.
You'll own
Narrative and craft. The bar on both, across the work you're accountable for, including the work you direct rather than make.
Getting brand expressions made. Work goes out because you made it, directed a contractor, enabled a teammate, or built the agent that made it. However it happens, it's on you.
What the team can make without you. The skills, templates, and evals that let anyone at Ambrook produce work that represents the brand well.
Brand evolution. Working with the creative director to mature and advance the brand, one expression at a time.
Responsibilities
Shape the narrative. Work with the teams closest to the project to find the story, then make the copy, the imagery, and the composition serve it.
Show the team what's possible. Make the abstract tangible with a prototype, a mockup, a printed sample. People commit to things they can see.
Make the work. Website, email, editorial, merchandise, event experiences, microsites, brand moments inside the product, and whatever the next idea needs. We're a small team, so you'll have your hands in everything.
Work the way that scales. Some things you make once. Some things should be a template or a skill so nobody has to ask you next time.
Direct the people who make things. Brief our illustrator, photographers, printers, and fabricators, then judge what comes back. Some of the best work here is made by someone else and made right because of you.
Maintain our brand systems. Design libraries, Sanity components, and brand documentation only stay useful if someone tends them.
About you
Mid-level to senior experience. 4+ years making brand work.
Craft. You fixate on the details nobody else notices but everybody feels.
You are a builder. You're happiest making things real, whether that's prototyping a microsite, proofing a zine on your home printer, or getting a page live in the CMS yourself. Whatever the work needs, you teach yourself and get good at it.
Range across physical and digital. As comfortable designing components for a marketing landing page as you are selecting a garment for company merch.
You've built with AI. Not demos. Workflows and tools that stayed in use, that you and your team reach for regularly.
Self-directed. Brand touches every team here, so you're used to gathering context from data and the people around you, turning the seed of an idea into a proposal, and keeping everyone on schedule without being asked.
Bonus: Motion experience, or enough scrappiness to figure it out with whatever tool gets there fastest.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Health insurance
401(k) with matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Flexible vacation time
Flexible work hours
Work-from-home/remote office stipend, or a desk at Ambrook's NYC, SF, or Denver office
Wellness stipend
Professional development stipend
Our values
Reach Understanding. We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world.
Real Talk. We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable.
Be Proactively Resourceful. We are internally motivated and externally empowered to identify opportunities and solve problems.
Derisk Thoughtfully. We lean into the biggest risks we face as a company and put in the work to address them systematically.
Find the Positive-Sum. We believe in creating incentive structures that align the needs of our company, our customers, and our planet.