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Parallel Design Studio

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💼 Consulting

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Consulting

Parallel Design Studio is a design and product strategy studio that shapes AI products and digital experiences for startups and enterprises, operating since 2014. They provide fractional embedded design leadership, brand and web design, AI product innovation and focused engagements (e. g. , AI vision sprints and visual language systems), with specialties including Product Strategy, Website Design, Product Design, Brand Identity, and AI Product Innovation. Based in Austin and Bangalore, Parallel works on SaaS UX, fintech, healthtech, govtech and emerging AI sectors, partnering with clients like Meta, HealthifyMe, Pixxel and Payoneer.

📋 Description

• Lead the work • Define the vision for brand design at Parallel and raise our brand practice to a new level of creative excellence. • Guide and mentor brand designers at every level, through the whole journey from insight to identity to expression. • Partner with clients strategically, helping founders and executives shape, evolve, and scale their brands for a digital-first world. • Build and refine brand systems that carry cleanly into product experiences, marketing, and motion. • Make sure every engagement, ours or a client's, holds clarity, consistency, and purpose. • Drive the creative process on major brand initiatives, setting the tone for identity systems, storytelling frameworks, and brand guidelines. • Work closely with product design leadership so brand and product feel like one coherent experience. • Lead cross-disciplinary critique, lifting the team's fluency in storytelling, systems thinking, and craft. • Push creative boundaries with motion, 3D, and interaction to create brand moments that feel alive. • Partner with design leadership and help win new work by pitching bold, brand-led approaches. • Keep Parallel's own brand at the highest bar of craft and cohesion across everything we put out. • Build a team culture rooted in openness, mentorship, and curiosity, where designers grow and thrive. • Connect brand, product, and marketing so the experience holds together end to end.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in brand design, creative direction, or design leadership, ideally in a digital-first environment. • Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale brand engagements from strategy through execution. • A portfolio that shows mastery of visual identity, brand systems, and storytelling across digital touchpoints. • Experience presenting to executive stakeholders and turning creative thinking into strategic outcomes. • Fluency in modern design tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects) and a real grasp of how brands extend through motion, interaction, and content. • Comfort with emerging tools, including everyday use of AI in your craft. • Strong facilitation and communication skills, guiding workshops and strategic sessions with confidence and empathy. • Deep knowledge of design trends and the evolving role of brand in the digital ecosystem. • A passion for mentoring and shaping design culture.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Remote work options