Brand Designer

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries.

About the role

We're looking for an exceptional brand designer who can help define and evolve Cursor’s visual identity as we scale to a universal platform for building software. As we grow, we’re building a brand studio focused on setting a high bar for creative excellence in a fast-moving company where brand and design play a meaningful role. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the Cursor brand and contribute to a design function that matches the ambition of our mission.

What you'll do

• Evolve Cursor’s brand identity and create scalable visual systems across product, marketing, and community

• Drive hands-on design from concept through execution across digital, print, video, and events

• Craft compelling narratives through design that communicate our vision for the future of software creation

• Design for multiple audiences — from experienced developers to designers exploring code for the first time

• Collaborate with product designers to ensure brand consistency across the user experience

• Collaborate with external partners and provide clear creative feedback

• Ship fast, iterate constantly. Let the brand evolve as the product and company grow

You may be a fit if

• You have a portfolio demonstrating strong visual, typographic, and strategic thinking across formats — from digital campaigns to brand systems and events

• You’ve built or evolved brands for technical products, developer-focused companies, or culturally defining brands

• You have a proven track record working in fast-paced, high-growth companies with speed, ambiguity, and complexity

• You think in systems and can translate complex concepts into scalable, accessible design

• You have strong art direction skills, with the ability to set a clear creative bar and guide external creative partners

• You can articulate design decisions and rally teams around a creative vision

• You can contribute to brand voice and messaging when needed

• You’re ambitious, opinionated, and comfortable taking ownership to push work forward

• [Nice to have] Experience working at both fast-paced startups and agencies

• [Nice to have] Background in web design, motion design, 3D or illustration