We're a well-knit digital design studio working with products, brands and (ai-)code. Top founders come to us because we get early-stage like no one else. We help them define, build and scale future unicorns. That means we think beyond logos and pretty palettes (though a criminally good wordmark still hits). Fair warning: this is not a place to coast. The pace is set by founders who move fast, and we like it that way.
We're looking for an independent brand designer for a long-term B2B cooperation: someone hyped to build brands 0→1. You organise your own time and place of work and deliver the agreed results your way. Nobody here is breathing down your neck about what, when or how you do it. See a better route to the goal? Take it and take the cred.
The cooperation is non-exclusive: you're free to work with other clients, as long as it doesn't create an actual conflict of interest or breach confidentiality. Each project (scope, timeline, remuneration) is agreed separately, and taking one on is always your call.
Sounds like your kind of collaboration? Apply below.
What You’ll Do
- Conducting client workshops
- Planning your projects based on our design process
- Designing visual identity systems
- Being the point of contact between tonik and your clients
- Presenting and getting a ‘yes!’ to your ideas
- Educating your clients on brand design & systemic approach
- Updating your clients about the progress
- Collaborating with product and web designers
- Joining internal meetings, sharing knowledge and feedback
- Having an opinion about what’s happening at tonik
It’s a match if you’re like this
- At least 3 years of experience in branding (digital and print)
- Experienced in creating visual identity systems & able to follow the brand strategy
- Good at running workshops and conducting research
- Ability to design within a large range of aesthetics. Experience with brand design for digital product companies / startups would be a plus
- Knowledge of basic animation principles would be a plus
- Sweat over the juicy details
- In for teamwork and occasional mentorship
- Organizing your work with a little or no help
- Ready to work in EU time zones, with occasional calls in the evening with our American folks (ET/PT)
- Fluent in both English and Polish
What the cooperation includes
- A world-class bench around you: high-agency, senior, low-ego. We set the bar high, raise it often, and pull you up with it
- Founders from the Valley's top rosters: a16z Speedrun, YC, HF0 and more. We've partnered with 200+ of them
- AI-native delivery, not pixel pushing. The studio runs on it, and how you use it can shape how we all do
- A direct line to founders. Strong ideas go from concept to shipped in days, the decision loop is that short
- Trips to SF when the project calls for it. You get the epicenter up close
- Top-tier AI tooling (whatever's winning right now) and every access the project needs
- EU-timezone cooperation, overlap only where the project genuinely needs it
- Optional invites to dinners, retreats and nights out. Come if you feel like it
The process
1. You first
Hit that big Apply button and tell us about yourself. Don't forget to attach your portfolio.
2. Vibe check
Let's jump on a call, so we can both figure out whether it's a fit.
3. Show off
You’ll get a task so we can see your magic in practice.
4. Seal the deal
One last call to talk details (e.g. the scope and model of cooperation, remuneration, expected availability) and that's it!
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