Graphic Designer Job at Shade Inc. in New York

Shade is scaling fast. In 18 months, we've built the combined technology of FrameIO (acquired by Adobe for $1.275B) and LucidLink ($40M ARR), layered with proprietary AI for visual search and video labeling. We process thousands of hours of video per day, powering end-to-end workflows for major customers across post-production, creative agencies, sports, and internal media teams—including Salesforce, Grüns, HelloFresh, Related, Deloitte, and Motorola. We're growing 150% QoQ with 120% NRR.
Backed by Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary, and Bling.
What's next We're building the platform creative teams actually need. We're not here to generate AI slop—we're eliminating the tedious parts of creative work: waiting for downloads, manually tagging files, sorting archives, license verification. Because we operate at the file system level, we're positioned as critical infrastructure for how creative teams store, access, and leverage their media. That foundation unlocks endless possibility.
Takeaway We're laying the tracks as we drive the train. You’re getting in on the ground floor of the next Cursor or Figma.
What we’re looking for An experienced graphic designer to join full-time as our 3rd design hire, working closely with founding designer Karina and CEO Brandon. What this looks like:
You’ve scaled brand designs before: 2-3 years of experience, preferably at a scaling startup (Series A and beyond), you know how to work and maintain a consistent brand image and are unafraiad to work across any surface: booth designs, digital, coffee cups (yes this was an ask), merch, motion graphics
Static and Animated Experience: Has worked with Adobe Suite in After Effects, Jitter, Flutter, Rive, can do static designs but also motion graphics for animations, lower-thirds. Comfortable making product mockups in Photoshop We want to see your work - Animation, data visualization, illustration, editorial, packaging, or anything else that shows your range.
Framer & Figma expert: fluent in variables, auto-layout, responsive design, prototyping, and component library management. You’ve worked with Framer, CMS management and image and SVG optimizations
High ownership: you’re happy being the first and last set of eyes on a feature buildout
Engineer-friendly: you want to work with our engineers, understand our tech stack, and are experienced in design-developer handoff. You defend your designs but are mindful of implementation cost.
High empathy: you’re highly motivated and selfishly invested in solving creative friction, you understand our end user and when you don’t, you learn to
Meticulous but pragmatic: you’re prone to memorize HEX codes and can distinguish Geist from Inter by eye but are willing to sacrifice perfection for speed and product
Shipped work across mediums: We’re looking for real, shipped graphics / items with live links —ideally spanning web, desktop, and mobile. Concept work is great, but we also want to experience the actual end-to-end UX.
Show us how you organize your work in Figma: share a screenshot or prototype of your flow structure, theme organization, or token naming. It doesn’t need to be perfect—don’t let an “imperfect” portfolio keep you from sending examples.
You are more than “shareholder value.” We build our team around personal investment and ambition, so we offer benefits like:
Full health insurance (w. dental & vision), 401k with % match
Unlimited PTO
Commuter cards for subway/bus —> we work in-person
^^ You’ll want to work in-person! We are fun! Our office is cool!
And, of course, these are in addition to salary and equity. At Shade, you are the “shareholder.”
Bonus Points “You don’t know what you don’t know” — CEO Brandon
We view team growth as an opportunity for skill capture. These aren’t “mission critical,” but they will put your application over the edge:
Product experience and design system work
Comfortable working with engineers and engineering handoff
Desire to work on brand messaging, visual strategy, more conceptual aspects of design

#J-18808-Ljbffr

In Summary: In 18 months, we've built the combined technology of FrameIO (acquired by Adobe for $1.275B) and LucidLink ($40M ARR) We process thousands of hours of video per day, powering end-to-end workflows for major customers across post-production, creative agencies, sports, and internal media teams . We're looking for an experienced graphic designer to join full-time as our 3rd design hire .

En Español: Shade está creciendo rápidamente. En 18 meses, hemos construido la tecnología combinada de FrameIO (adquirida por Adobe por $1.275B) y LucidLink ($40M ARR), en capas con IA propietaria para búsqueda visual y etiquetado de vídeo. Procesamos miles de horas de video al día, impulsando flujos de trabajo de extremo a extremo para los principales clientes en postproducción, agencias creativas, deportes y equipos de medios internosincluyendo Salesforce, Grüns, HelloFresh, Related, Deloitte y Motorola. Estamos aumentando el 150% QoQ con 120% NRR. Apoyados por Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary y Bling. Lo que sigue Construimos las plataformas creativas que necesitamos. No estamos aquí para generar acceso a la plataforma AI. Cómo se ve esto: ha escalado diseños de marca antes: 2-3 años de experiencia, preferiblemente en una startup a gran escala (Serie A y más allá), sabe cómo trabajar y mantener una imagen de marca consistente y no tiene miedo de trabajar en cualquier superficie: diseño de cabina, digital, tazas de café (sí era un pedido), merchandising, gráficos de movimiento Estático y Experiencia Animada: Ha trabajado con Adobe Suite en After Effects, Jitter, Flutter, Rive, puede hacer diseños estáticos pero también gráficos del movimiento para animaciones, tercios inferiores. Usted defiende sus diseños, pero es consciente del costo de la implementación. Alta empatía: usted está altamente motivado e egoísta invertido en resolver las fricciones creativas, entiende a nuestro usuario final y cuando no lo hace, aprende a ser meticuloso pero pragmático: usted tiene tendencia a memorizar los códigos HEX y puede distinguir entre Geist e Inter por el ojo pero están dispuestos a sacrificar la perfección para la velocidad y el producto Trabajo enviado a través de medios: buscamos gráficos / artículos con enlaces en vivo que abarcan idealmente la web, escritorio y móvil. El trabajo conceptual es genial, pero también queremos experimentar la experiencia UX real de extremo a extremo. ¡Mostradnos cómo organizar su trabajo en Figma: una organización de capturas o prototipo de tu estructura de flujo de pantalla, salarios dentarios, o nombre token. No necesita ser un proyecto completo! Estos no son misión crítica, pero pondrán su aplicación sobre el borde: experiencia de producto y trabajo del sistema de diseño cómodo trabajar con ingenieros e ingeniería entrega Deseo para trabajar en mensajería de marca, estrategia visual, aspectos más conceptuales del diseño #J-18808-Ljbffr.