Sr. Graphic Designer

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Mountain View, CA
In-Office
154K-169K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Machine Learning • Software • Semiconductor
We’re Lightmatter, the photonic (super)computer company.
The Role
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you'll shape Lightmatter's visual identity through various projects, including marketing materials, motion graphics, and website updates, while ensuring alignment with brand strategy.
Summary Generated by Built In

Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.

Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter!

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light!

As a Senior Designer on the Marketing Team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the visual identity of Lightmatter. You’ll work on a variety of projects, including website updates, marketing campaigns, presentations, motion graphics, videos, illustrations, and brand assets. Reporting directly to the Head of Brand Marketing, you’ll ensure that all design work aligns with our brand strategy and supports our business goals.

Lead creative, end-to-end initiatives with both strategic vision and tactical precision, always optimizing for the next user touchpoint. You’ll use exceptional design and storytelling skills to craft brand visuals while collaborating directly with agencies, designers and brand narrative experts to craft narratives and drive best practices. You’ll help build our brand narrative DNA and in-house guidelines. Your design work will ensure that we present an authentic LM aesthetic to our consumers in all capacities. You'll actively gain knowledge and experience regarding LM's philosophy, products and trends, as well as the consumer and overall marketplace culture.


Responsibilities:

  • Originate, extend and adapt creative ideas, visuals, and content to elevate the consumer experience across all LM channels and various media channels through hyper meaningful brand stories.
  • Work with narrative/designers to sharpen the direction and ensure the work delivers storytelling excellence.
  • Website Design & Updates: Maintain and enhance our website (Lightmatter.co) with new pages, visuals, and content updates. Work closely with agency partners and developers to implement changes.
  • Graphic Design: Create marketing materials, including social media graphics, blog illustrations, sales decks, event collateral, and case studies.
  • Motion Graphics & Video Editing: Develop compelling motion graphics and edit videos for social media, campaigns, events, and digital channels.
  • Brand Development & Assets: Ensure consistency across all touchpoints, refining and evolving our brand as needed. Produce brand assets such as figure illustrations, iconography, and visual templates.
  • Campaign Support: Design assets for marketing campaigns, email newsletters, and paid advertising.
  • UX/UI Enhancements: Collaborate with the team to improve website usability and optimize landing pages for conversion.
  • Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Product Marketing and Sales to execute projects effectively.
  • Support planning and execution of events
  • Create, craft and provide feedback that helps agencies or freelancers, when needed.
  • Stay up-to-date with new digital technologies and best practices

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a related field 
  • 8 years of industry experience working on brand teams or in a creative agency
  • Strong portfolio showcasing brand, marketing, web, illustration, motion graphics, and video editing work
  • Expertise in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro), and other design tools
  • Experience with WordPress, Webflow, or other CMS platforms for website updates
  • Understanding of UX/UI best practices and front-end development principles 
  • Ability to manage 3–5 projects or priorities while meeting deadlines, in a fast paced environment
  • Excellent communication: Deliver clear, error-free written work and present ideas with clarity, excellent presentation skills, i.e. ability to craft decks that secure stakeholder buy-in
  • Strategic thinker experienced in consumer insights to create data-backed recommendations aligned with marketing plan
  • Have collaborated with designers, brand narrative exports, and art directors along with cross functional teams to incorporate feedback while maintaining momentum

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s of Fine Arts
  • HTML, CSS knowledge is a plus
  • Experience working in a technical field, preferably semiconductors or hardware
  • Understanding of SEO and web traffic metrics

We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.

Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution.
$154,000$169,000 USD
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Savings Matching Program
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Paid Family Leave
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • Training & Development
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Flexible, hybrid workplace model
  • Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees)

Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Export Control

Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws. 

Top Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
After Effects
Figma
Illustrator
Indesign
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
Webflow
Wordpress
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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
105 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful emissions associated with this growth, and democratize computing for all.

Lightmatter's technology accelerates critical operations in deep neural networks, using an array of programmable photonic elements fabricated alongside transistors in conventional computer chip fabrication processes. Our close-knit team of engineers has created an integrated photonics chip and ultra-high performance interconnect that is faster, more efficient, and cooler than anything else on earth (or anything ever experienced before) to power the next giant leaps in human progress.

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