Brand Designer

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

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  Design across the full range we need: campaign creative, out of home artwork, social and digital assets, recruiting and employer brand collateral, event and environmental graphics, merchandise, and presentations for external audiences.

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  Work at real volume and real speed without letting quality slide, and know which pieces deserve extra time and which need to be good and done.

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  Prepare production-ready files correctly, including large-format out of home specs, print production, and working to vendor and printer requirements.

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  Art direct photography and video capture in our factories, including shot lists for the moments that make the work look like what it is.

• Define and document our brand system over time: typography, color, layout, photographic and illustrative direction, iconography, and how the brand behaves across digital, print, environmental, and merchandise.

• Build templates and toolkits so recruiters, site teams, and marketing can produce on-brand material without a designer for every request.

• Develop the visual language for how we show manufacturing itself, including how we represent machines, parts, processes, and the people doing the work.

• Establish a sane operating model for design requests, including intake, prioritization, and review, so the function is not purely reactive.

• Own the creative standard for Hadrian's visual output, including work produced by external agencies and partners. Write the briefs, give the direction, and send work back when it misses.

• Bring a real point of view to leadership on what our brand should be and defend it with reasoning rather than taste alone.

• Partner with growth marketing on creative that has to perform, and use performance feedback as an input to the work rather than a threat to it.

• Partner with communications and talent brand so that what we look like and what we say stay consistent, and respect the review paths that govern customer, program, and export-controlled information.

• Portfolio: A strong portfolio is the primary requirement. We want to see range across digital, print or large format, and environmental or physical work, plus evidence of a system you built and not only individual artifacts.

• Experience: 6+ years in brand or visual design, in-house or agency, including work you owned from brief through production.

• Craft and speed: Genuinely excellent execution, delivered at pace. You can produce a lot without the work becoming generic.

• Systems thinking: You have built brand systems, guidelines, or template libraries that other people successfully used without you.

• Production knowledge: You understand print and large-format production, color management, and file preparation well enough that vendors do not have to correct you.

• Direction: You can brief and critique external partners clearly, and you are comfortable rejecting work that is not good enough.

• Ownership and ambiguity: You are comfortable being the only designer, setting your own standards, and building the function while delivering against a full queue.

• Experience designing for industrial, aerospace, defense, automotive, or hardware companies, or any brand where the product is physical.

• Environmental and experiential design experience, including signage, wayfinding, factory spaces, and event build.

• Motion design, video editing, or the ability to direct and finish short-form video.

• Art direction experience on industrial photo and video shoots.

• Experience as a first or early design hire, with a view on what you would do differently this time.

• Comfort designing performance creative and iterating against results.

• Merchandise and apparel design experience, including working with manufacturers.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.

Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.

Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.