Designer

Artificial intelligence is changing war - making decisions in combat quicker and more accurate, while enabling information to be shared more rapidly across both America's and her adversaries' militaries. Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign, the first defense-purpose foundation AI for unmanned systems, to be the standard battlefield AI on every Western unmanned system. Today, Sovereign allows drones as varied as unmanned vessels on water to backpack attack quadcopters to see, decide, and act even when jammed. We believe the responsibility of reliably and ethically building lethally autonomous AI is immense to our service members, the American people, and civilians everywhere.


Modern Intelligence has worked with partners across the Department of War including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and countless unmanned systems hardware companies.


We have raised more than $22M in venture capital from Exponential, Oxford Funds, Bedrock, Vine Ventures, Contrary, Air Street, Caffeinated, Champion Hill, Swell, Myelin, and others.

Details

Modern Intelligence is hiring its first dedicated designer to set the future brand direction across all digital and physical media.

Working with the executive team and marketing team, you'll produce the following:

• Brand book and guidelines
• Presentation decks
• Video artifacts and assets
• Social and campaign graphics
• The marketing site
• Product pages
• Sovereign's operator app UI
• Trade-show booths and banners
• Digital and physical one-pagers
• Merchandise

This role is on-site in Austin.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a designer (brand, visual, product, or hybrid), with shipped work in both digital and physical media.
• A portfolio of shipped work: decks or presentations, web or product UI, and some print, booth, or environmental pieces.
• Ability to design for a technical B2B or defense / dual-use product and explain choices to founders and engineers without design jargon.
• Experience working with marketing and with founders acting as marketing, on campaigns, events, and a brand system.
• Experience building digital pages with AI, such as standalone landing pages, product pages, a marketing site, or similar campaign pages.
• Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and Photoshop, from concept through production files.
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)). This role may work with export-controlled technology and controlled messaging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a defense, dual-use, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, or deep-tech company, or an agency whose clients were in those spaces.
• Prior or current title as Brand Designer, Visual Designer, Creative Designer, or a similar hybrid role.
• Experience with marketing-site layout systems, component pages, and light UI polish for an operator or enterprise app.
• Illustrator and InDesign for one-pagers, booth graphics, and merch.
• Relationships with printers, booth fabricators, or production partners you would bring with you.
• Presentation templates and masters in Google Slides and current AI presentation tools.
• Short-form motion for social and campaigns in After Effects or Jitter.
• Experience designing brand books and guidelines.
• Enough front-end literacy to build marketing and landing pages on your own.

$100,000 - $140,000 a year

Compensation Specifics

• Final offer depends on demonstrated experience
• Equity is granted on top of base for every full-time role.

Benefits

• Full medical for employee and family
• Full dental and vision for employee and partial coverage for your dependents.
• Generous and flexible PTO
• Paid Holidays: All federal holidays + last two weeks of the calendar year
• Paid Parental Leave: 12 weeks

Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign: edge targeting software for unmanned systems. You'll be our first dedicated designer, setting visual direction across all mediums. If you're hungry and move with agency, apply with your portfolio.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.