The Role
The Director of Design will lead brand design, UI/UX, and creative strategies, mentor a design team, and collaborate across departments to elevate Gantri's design identity and digital presence.
Summary Generated by Built In
Company
Gantri is building the digital manufacturer for design. We combine software, advanced materials, and a local digital factory to produce high-mix, low-volume furniture and lighting on demand. We partner with world-class designers and brands to create products that are more innovative, more sustainable, and made locally.
We’re looking for a Director of Design to lead brand design, UI/UX, and creative at Gantri — someone with exceptional taste and a track record of building cohesive, elevated brand experiences for design-forward, tech-enabled consumer companies.
Role
We're looking for a Director of Design to lead and elevate every dimension of Gantri's design expression, including brand, digital, and creative. This person will own the visual identity and experience of a company where design is the entire point.
You'll set the creative bar across brand design, UI/UX, campaigns, packaging, and storytelling. You'll build and mentor a tight-knit, high-caliber team. You'll work closely with Product, Marketing, Sales and Software to shape how Gantri looks, feels, and communicates at every touchpoint. This is a rare opportunity to lead the design voice of a design disrupter.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Gantri's brand identity, visual language, and design system across all channels and touchpoints
- Evolve Gantri’s product vision to be consistent with the brand
- Lead the UI/UX vision for gantri.com, MadeOS (our custom manufacturing platform) and our industry-leading FactoryOS software, ensuring the digital experience reflects the quality and intentionality of our brand
- Build, lead, and mentor a lean creative team spanning brand design, digital design, and creative
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Software to ensure design consistency and excellence
- Establish and maintain creative standards, processes, and guidelines that scale with the company
- Champion a culture of craft, taste, and creative ambition throughout the organization
- Partner with external collaborators, including photographers, directors, agencies to produce world-class creative work
- Guide product identity of Gantri’s catalog of original designs
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in brand design, digital design, or creative direction, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional taste, range, and a track record of building memorable brand experiences for design-led or premium consumer companies
- Deep fluency in both brand and digital design — you can art-direct a campaign and critique a complex onboarding flow with equal confidence
- Experience building and leading small, high-performing design / creative teams
- Strong understanding of e-commerce UX, responsive design, and how great design drives conversion
- Excellent eye for typography, color, composition, and detail
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, resource-conscious environment where you're hands-on as much as you are strategic
- An authentic appreciation for industrial design, architecture, interiors, or the broader design world
- Bonus:
- Experience in the lighting, furniture, home, or lifestyle space
- Familiarity with 3D rendering, motion design, or spatial/experiential design
- A personal creative practice or side projects that reflect your point of view
Why Gantri
- Gantri sits at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and software. We’re building a new production model for a new era where great design doesn’t require mass production.
- If you care about taste, systems, and building something category-defining — this is a rare opportunity to shape a brand and platform from the inside.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401k
- Paid vacation days and paid holidays
- Access to 3D printers for your personal projects
- Monthly team lunches
- And much more
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The Company
What We Do
Gantri is a new kind of design manufacturer. We help designers create high-quality, affordable and sustainable modern designs and sell directly to consumers. Our secret? Manufacturing products on-demand using cutting-edge 3D printing and innovative plant-based materials.
Since launching lighting in 2017, we've collaborated with some of world's best designers, studios and brands, including Ammunition, Dims and Muka Design Lab. We’re the winner of Time’s Best Inventions 2020, Fast Company’s Most Innovative in Design 2020, Gear Patrol’s Top 100 Products of 2020, Architectural Digest’s Cleverest Awards 2020 and many other awards.
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