Senior Staff Brand Designer, Apollo
$161.5-190k
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OTE includes variable compensation. + Equity
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GraphQL developer platform
Open for applications
GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$161.5-190k
OTE
OTE includes variable compensation. + Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about visual storytelling and creating brands that developers love?
- You're a hands-on maker who loves getting into the details and delivering work with exceptional craft
- You're a strategic visionary who can anticipate market evolution and position brands ahead of trends
- You have 8-12+ years of brand design experience, with a mix of agency and in-house background
- You have strategic brand leadership experience and have driven company-wide brand initiatives
- You understand developer culture authentically - you know what resonates vs. what feels forced
- You're comfortable working with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams in cross-functional collaboration
- You have vendor management experience and have successfully managed creative agencies and external partners
- You have expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and modern design tools such as Lovable, v0, or other
- You have design systems thinking and experience building scalable brand systems
- You have a builder mentality and thrive on evolving established brands while measuring design impact
- You want to help establish Apollo as the industry leader and reference point among builders - the company developers naturally mention when discussing best-in-class developer tools
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff Brand Designer, you'll be the strategic brand leader at Apollo, owning our complete visual identity and brand presence to become the amongst the most trusted names among builders and platform engineers
- This is a high-impact individual contributor role for a builder - someone who combines strategic brand leadership with exceptional design execution
- You'll work as a strategic partner with Marketing leadership while driving Apollo's brand evolution
- Your role bridges the gap between product and marketing, ensuring cohesive brand experiences across all customer touchpoints
- You'll have the autonomy to shape our brand strategy while collaborating with director-level stakeholders across the organization
- This is an opportunity to be the brand design leader at a scaling company
- You'll own vendor relationships, drive strategic brand initiatives, and influence company-wide design decisions while crafting compelling experiences that resonate with developers
- We're looking for a builder - someone who thrives on rolling up their sleeves to execute exceptional work while simultaneously thinking strategically about brand positioning and market evolution
- You'll need to deliver compelling visual impact immediately while building a brand foundation that scales with our growth
- Own Apollo's brand strategy and visual direction, delivering immediate impact while building for the future
- Position Apollo's brand as industry reference point - establish Apollo as the industry leader that other companies reference and aspire to emulate
- Drive brand consistency between product and marketing experiences, creating unified customer journeys
- Lead strategic brand initiatives and major campaign development with Marketing leadership as a peer collaborator
- Execute with exceptional craft - from strategic concepting to beautifully finished assets
- Create and oversee visual assets for marketing campaigns, web experiences, conference materials, and experiential marketing
- Build comprehensive brand systems that scale while maintaining the highest quality standards
- Craft visual narratives that communicate Apollo's story to technical and business audiences
- Partner with Product Design to ensure seamless brand integration across product experiences
- Work with Engineering teams to implement brand systems and maintain technical feasibility
- Manage creative agency relationships and external vendor partnerships with full budget authority
- Partner with executive stakeholders and contribute to high-level strategic discussions
Our take
Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.
Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.
In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
126% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Work from home opportunities
- Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
- Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Geoff Schmidt
(CEO)Co-founder & CEO of Meteor Development group and former software engineer at Asana.
Matt DeBergalis
(CTO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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