Associate Brand Designer

At AREA 17, we believe we can help the world be more open, resilient, and optimistic. We work with clients we trust and admire across various industries, including Saint Laurent, OpenAI, the International Energy Agency, Foundation Louis Vuitton, and The New York Times. We build long-term partnerships by delivering value through brand, experience, and technology.AREA 17 is partnered with Craft on the launch of the 2026 Cohort, a structured entry point designed to grow and nurture junior talent into the leaders of tomorrow. You'll work in small, autonomous teams alongside senior strategists and designers, learning by doing rather than sitting on the sidelines with colleagues at the same stage of their careers.You'd lead brand design across digital-first projects, translating strategic positioning into visual systems and identities. Concepting and executing motion, typography, system design, and identity work, you’ll move between them depending on the brief. Work runs in two modes: six-to-eight-week acceleration sprints that get brands to market, and six-month-plus transformations that leave clients with brand infrastructure they can own. You'll sit in small, autonomous teams alongside strategists, building for AI, climate, health, and arts-and-culture clients. RequirementsYou're early-career but past your first studio job - a couple of years in brand or design somewhere. You’re ideas-first, with real conceptual and typographic strength, and you pull references from well beyond graphic design. You can read strategy and use design to express it. Curious about AI tools, but you don't need to be fluent in them yet.Benefits$60,000 - $75,000Hybrid workingEarly October start dateFully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families401(k) with company match HSA with annual employer contributionEmployer-paid life insurance

At AREA 17, we believe we can help the world be more open, resilient, and optimistic. We work with clients we trust and admire across various industries, including Saint Laurent, OpenAI, the International Energy Agency, Foundation Louis Vuitton, and The New York Times. We build long-term partnerships by delivering value through brand, experience, and technology.

AREA 17 is partnered with Craft on the launch of the 2026 Cohort, a structured entry point designed to grow and nurture junior talent into the leaders of tomorrow. You'll work in small, autonomous teams alongside senior strategists and designers, learning by doing rather than sitting on the sidelines with colleagues at the same stage of their careers.

You'd lead brand design across digital-first projects, translating strategic positioning into visual systems and identities. Concepting and executing motion, typography, system design, and identity work, you’ll move between them depending on the brief.

Work runs in two modes: six-to-eight-week acceleration sprints that get brands to market, and six-month-plus transformations that leave clients with brand infrastructure they can own. You'll sit in small, autonomous teams alongside strategists, building for AI, climate, health, and arts-and-culture clients.

Requirements

You're early-career but past your first studio job - a couple of years in brand or design somewhere. You’re ideas-first, with real conceptual and typographic strength, and you pull references from well beyond graphic design.

You can read strategy and use design to express it. Curious about AI tools, but you don't need to be fluent in them yet.

Benefits

$60,000 - $75,000

Hybrid working

Early October start date

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families

401(k) with company match

HSA with annual employer contribution

Employer-paid life insurance

AREA 17 is a digital product agency. We take an interdisciplinary approach — blending the practices of design, technology and branding — to create modern interactive systems.We care about the web and its future. It has become a large part of our lives – entering our offices, living rooms and even our pockets. It is changing the way our world operates. We believe the web should be an extension of our daily lives, not a distraction from it. To this end, our mission is to make the web a better place — for work and for life — by delivering solutions that are equally valuable, sustainable and enriching.AREA 17 is located in New York City and Paris, France. We are independently owned and creatively motivated. Learn more

AREA 17 is a digital product agency. We take an interdisciplinary approach — blending the practices of design, technology and branding — to create modern interactive systems.

We care about the web and its future. It has become a large part of our lives – entering our offices, living rooms and even our pockets. It is changing the way our world operates. We believe the web should be an extension of our daily lives, not a distraction from it. To this end, our mission is to make the web a better place — for work and for life — by delivering solutions that are equally valuable, sustainable and enriching.

AREA 17 is located in New York City and Paris, France. We are independently owned and creatively motivated. Learn more