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Brand & Visual Designer

Location Remote (Global) Type Contract Experience 3+ years Team Design Openings 1 position

About the role

Most brands blur together because the system falls apart the moment it leaves the logo file. We’re hiring a Brand & Visual Designer to build the identity and the visual language that keeps our clients unmistakable everywhere they show up, from a pitch deck to a product screen to a paid social ad. You love a strict system, and you know exactly when to bend it for impact.

Because Externo is a service-based consulting company, you won’t shape one brand forever. You’ll build brands and visual systems across many clients and industries, a fintech one month and an AI startup the next. You set the visual bar for the work and you’re trusted to make the call, with no layers of approval to design around.

What you’ll do

  • Build brand identities and the visual systems that hold them together: logo, type, colour, grid and rules.
  • Design the marketing, social and product visuals that carry those brands across every channel.
  • Hold one consistent language across every touchpoint, from a landing page to a launch campaign.
  • Work shoulder to shoulder with product designers and strategists so the brand and the product speak the same way.
  • Push the craft without breaking the system: know when to hold the rules and when to bend them.
  • Present and defend your visual thinking directly to clients, and fold their feedback in without losing the plot.

Skills & tools

The toolkit you’ll reach for most. You don’t need every one on day one, but you should be fluent across the core.

Core skills
  • Brand identity
  • Visual systems
  • Typography
  • Layout & composition
  • Colour
  • Marketing & social design
  • Art direction
  • Illustration
Tools
  • Figma
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • After Effects
  • Blender

What we’re looking for

  • 3+ years in brand or visual design.
  • A portfolio of identity work that’s strong and genuinely systematic, not just one nice logo.
  • Real command of type, layout and colour, and an eye that catches the details others miss.
  • Fluency in Figma and the Adobe suite.
  • You’re self-directed and reliable on delivery, even across several brands at once.
  • You stay calm switching between industries, briefs and clients.

Nice to have

  • Motion or 3D skills.
  • Illustration ability.
  • Experience with tech or AI brands.
  • Comfort with print as well as digital.

Portfolio required

This role needs a portfolio. Please attach it or paste a link when you apply (use the Resume or portfolio link field on the right). Show identity work with the system behind it, not just the hero logo, but how it holds across every touchpoint.

Is this you?

We hire for a specific kind of mind: people who think differently, work out of the box, and would rather try the less obvious idea than the safe one. We stay small and senior on purpose, so everyone here carries real weight.

Please only apply if you genuinely see yourself in this: a curious, self-driven designer whose work and values line up with ours. If that’s you, we’d love to meet you. If it isn’t, applying will only waste your time and ours, and we’d rather be honest about that up front.

About Externo

Externo is a service-based consulting company. Businesses bring us in as their outside team to design, build and ship digital and AI products that hold up in the real world, across strategy, UX, LLM features, agent workflows, data pipelines and web experiences. We’re senior, remote-first, and work embedded alongside our clients. Get to know us on our About page, see the services we offer, or read the Externo blog.