Founding Digital Visual Designer

Overview

Application

The Role

We’re hiring a Founding Visual Designer to own and define how Grand looks, moves, and feels in the world.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on visual design, motion, film, and brand expression. You’ll be responsible for everything from brand videos and motion systems to social content, launch assets, and product storytelling.

You’ll work closely with the founders, builders and other creatives across Grand to make the brand unmistakable, emotionally resonant, and consistently excellent across every surface.

We’re looking for someone who obsesses over quality and is ready to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty from day one. This is a seat at the founders’ table, shaping the brand into a household name from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Own Grand’s visual and motion identity across brand, marketing, and product storytelling
• Design and produce brand films, motion graphics, social content, and launch materials
• Define and evolve our motion language — how the brand moves, transitions, and communicates
• Work hands-on across motion, animation, video, and visual design
• Use AI as a default creative accelerator for ideation, iteration, and production
• Collaborate closely with the entire team to tell the product story through motion and visual storytelling
• Raise the quality of everything we put into the world through relentless execution
• Build visual systems that scale across channels (web, social, video, product moments)
• Rapidly concept, prototype, and ship creative ideas — from scrappy experiments to polished deliverables
• Balance speed and taste — moving fast without lowering the bar

Must Have

Proven experience delivering high-quality visual, motion, or brand work that has shipped into the real world. We care far more about what you’ve made than how long you’ve been doing it

Strong motion and animation skills (non-negotiable)

A portfolio showing brand expression, motion, video, and storytelling

Exceptional visual taste and attention to detail

Comfortable working as a strong IC in a fast-moving environment

Able to move from idea → execution without hand-holding

Confident collaborating with founders, engineers, and marketers

AI-first mindset, using modern tools to accelerate creative output

Bias toward shipping real work, not polishing decks or process

You care deeply about quality, but are pragmatic enough to know when it’s time to ship

Nice to Have

• Film, editing, or cinematography experience
• Light frontend coding or implementation awareness
• Experience helping build a brand from zero → one
• Experience working on fintech, B2B

Salary and Benefits

Excellent Salary: Competitive salary reflecting your expertise and foundational role.

Equity Options: A stake in the company—your chance to grow with us as we redefine the future.

Hybrid Work: At least 3 days in our London or Dublin office, blending collaboration and flexibility.

Extended Remote Work on Request: Need more remote time? We’re open to making it work.

Passionate Geek Squad: Work alongside a team of driven, brilliant minds who live and breathe innovation.

Who You Are

You’re a special breed of brand and motion designer with impeccable taste and a deep obsession with visual storytelling. You’re methodical, clear in how you communicate, and driven to ship. You take ideas from early spark to clarity — and then push them further through exceptional craft.

You care deeply about how things look and feel because it shapes how people understand and trust a product. You move fast, take responsibility for what you ship, and lead through making.

You thrive in ambiguity, hate mediocrity, and take pride in work that actually lands.

You’re based in London or Dublin (or ready to be), and ready to be all hands on deck from day one.

If you're ready to join us, let’s talk.