Brand Designer, Clerk
Authentication and user management
Open for applications
Authentication and user management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve user management once and for all.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a Senior(+) level Brand Designer or Visual Designer with experience working in deverloper tools, AI or infra related brands. You love your craft. You push UI Engineers to build experiences they’re unsure if they’re capable of (and you expect them to do the same for you)
- You’re in the Americas. The Clerk Design team is spread across the globe; Product Design currently spans UTC+1 to UTC+5:30. You live in a location that is ±3 hours within U.S. Mountain Time (MDT, UTC−06:00)
- You have technical fluency. You have a deep understanding of designing interactive software on the web. You don’t need to author production-ready front-end code, but it’s a big plus if you can
- You work iteratively. Your process embodies a “ship and iterate” mentality. You value the quick pace of a growing startup like Clerk
- You own your time. You’re a self-starter who would rather find a tough problem to solve instead of waiting for a new task. To be successful at Clerk, you need to make the most of the autonomy you’re given
What the job involves
- You’ll join Visual Designers, UI Engineers, and fellow Product Designers on the Clerk Design team to own and uplevel the Clerk brand. You’ll optimize for customer delight, flexibility, and ease-of-use within a complicated, technical domain
- Uplevel the Clerk brand. Lead creative direction and design to personally ship brand assets including brand identity, .com, product launches and more
- Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team. You’ll work with UI engineers, animators, product designers and more to create an elevated brand identity
- Bring innovative approaches to brand design. Use new approaches to bring digital experiences to life and create scalable tools that increase high quality brand output
- Not settle for less than pixel-perfection. You’ll work with a world-class UI Engineering team to bring your Figma frames to life. You set the bar for quality
- Elevate our design culture. You’ll support and expand the Clerk Design visual language, asset library, brand design system, and design processes
Our take
Authentication is only part of the story when it comes to user management. Developers using API tools also face the complex UI and management issues of additional features like user sign-up, sign-in, and session management, to name a few. Clerk was founded to make this simpler, reducing hours of work to minutes using pre-built React components.
Clerk stands out in a market dominated by the likes of Auth0 and OneSpan with its focus on React rather than API. This taps into a growing number of developers working with Jamstack rather than trying to wrestle customers away from market incumbents - a smart move which has seen its userbase swell by five times, growing to over a million developers.
This rapid growth has attracted investors, and Clerk closed a Series B round in 2024. This funding is being used to expand the company's services into authorisation - determining a user's permissions as opposed to simply identifying them. As account security and management will continue to be a major focus for developers going forward, Clerk is well positioned to grow into a major player in this space, especially as it continues to expand its product range.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2025
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $109m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary: We want you to know that we value the skills you bring to the table, so we go out of our way to make sure you’re fairly compensated.
- Equity ownership: At Clerk, we believe in shared success, which is why we offer a stock option plan that everyone stands to benefit from as we grow.
- Health coverage: We care about your well-being, so we offer top-tier health insurance to ensure your health needs are met. (US-based employees)
- Work equipment: We’ll make sure you have everything you need to set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice.
- Flexible vacation policy: We're believers in work-life balance and trust you to take the time you need with our unlimited vacation policy.
- Remote and diverse team: We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where you can do the best work of your life with a global, fully-remote team.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Colin Sidoti
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Clerk in 2019, Colin was an Independent Consultant for nearly 8 years. He also spent 1 year at We-Care.com as a Web Developer.
Braden Sidoti
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Member of the South Park Commons. He was also an iOS Engineering Manager at Inspirato and an iOS Developer at hostess.fm and Fuzz Productions.
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