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
Skills Required
- 2+ years experience in brand or design (past first studio job)
- Strong conceptual thinking and typographic skills
- Ability to read strategy and express it through design (visual systems and identities)
- Experience concepting and executing motion, typography, system design, and brand identity
- Curiosity about AI tools
- Experience working in small, autonomous studio teams
What We Do
AREA 17 is a brand and digital product agency based in New York and Paris. Founded in 2003, we partner with organizations we trust and admire to create lasting value through craft, impact, and soul. We believe the way we advance digital today is imperative to ensuring a more open, resilient, and optimistic world. By crafting brands and products that are fundamental to our interactions as people, we can make the internet an enhancement of our lives, not a distraction from it.We are consultants and craftspeople. We concept new brands and digital products and innovate on and transform existing ones. Our work simplifies business, inspires new behavior, and serves people's needs. Learn more about partnering with us, send us a message. -Strategic platforms-User experience-Design systems-Technology-Product management Our cultural commitment is simple — to be an environment where we can do great work and live great lives. We are an international team of 70+ people from 18 countries, speaking 13 languages. As individuals and a team, we are inspired by the world around us and united by our values of rigor, curiosity, kindness, courage and je ne sais quoi.
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