Brand Designer
Remote·Posted yesterday
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<h1>About Co-Star</h1> <h2>Someone downloads Co–Star every 5 seconds. </h2> <p>In the five years since we launched, 25% of young people 18-25 in the US have downloaded the app. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAl8qGIrcSI&t=203s">Big Sean</a> has rapped about us, Ariana Grande & <a href="https://www.12up.com/posts/kevin-durant-posts-cryptic-instagram-story-amid-free-agency-and-injury-rumors-01dcsry062kv">Kevin Durant</a> post screenshots to their IGs, and we’ve been <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1458814851">App of the Day</a> twice. We’ve been featured in the New York Times three times, this year on the cover of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html">NYT Style</a>. We have a global following, in 193 countries – missing just North Korea and Eritrea. </p> <p>We don't pay for marketing – we designed the app to go viral, and it did. </p> <h2>Astrology has been popular for 4,000 years.</h2> <p>Astrology is a tool for speaking about yourself, about who you are, what you’re experiencing, and how you relate to other people – in other words, a language for the things that really matter. It’s a structured system, based on the physical locations of the planets in the sky, developed over millennia 4,000 years of practice. </p> <p>Everyone has memories of reading a horoscope in the newspaper. You know your sign the same way you know the name of the street you grew up on. <a href="https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20207/data#supplemental-tables">An average of 43% of Americans have believed in astrology since the 1970s.</a> </p> <h2>We’re merging the resonance of the humanities with the precision of technology. </h2> <p>Co-Star uses real-time NASA data and AI to bring this practice to the modern age. Every day, Co–Star generates millions of hyper-personalized horoscopes – a scale never previously possible. Every word of it is based on each person’s unique astrology: where the stars physically were when they were born and where those same stars are now. Co–Star combines the art of ancient practice with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, creating the first synthetic text to be called “wildly beautiful.”</p> <h2>We’re a small, experienced team. </h2> <p>Co-Star is a team of 30, with experience in big tech (Amazon, Google, Snapchat), entertainment (Frank Ocean, Adult Swim), and academia (Harvard, Stanford, NYU, Columbia). </p> <h1>About the brand designer role</h1> <p>We're looking for a talented visual designer to shape how Co-Star shows up outside of the app, in the broader world. We are looking for someone with a fresh, opinionated, and high-quality design foundation who can create work that feels distinct, not what’s now but what’s next. </p> <p>You'll partner closely with the leadership on campaigns and visual storytelling across earned and owned channels. This is a freelance engagement with potential for a long-term partnership as the work (and team) grows.</p> <h2>What you'll do</h2> <ul> <li>Design campaign visuals: ads, social, launches — from concept through finished assets</li> <li>Bring editorial design sensibility to our owned channels: email/welcome series, blog, campaign imagery</li> <li>Develop visual systems that are expressive rather than corporate</li> <li>Partner with marketing on what earned and owned should look and feel like</li> <li>Collaborate async with a small, fast-moving team</li> </ul> <h2>You might be a fit if</h2> <ul> <li>You're a senior IC — roughly 5–8 years in — with a portfolio of expressive, culturally fluent graphic design: editorial, campaigns, identities across print and digital</li> <li>Typography and composition are your first language</li> <li>You can direct as well as execute: you've shaped campaigns, not just produced assets for them</li> <li>You're plugged into visual culture across art, fashion, publishing, music, and the internet</li> <li>You work well remotely and independently</li> </ul> <h2>Nice to have</h2> <ul> <li>Editorial/publication experience (print or digital magazines)</li> <li>Motion or illustration</li> <li>You already make things with generative tools</li> </ul> <h2>Logistics</h2> <ul> <li>Freelance/contract, part-time to start, with room to grow</li> <li>Fully remote, anywhere. No travel required (though you're always welcome in NYC) </li> </ul> <h2>To apply</h2> <p>Send your portfolio. We care about taste, range, and point of view.</p>