Highwire

Highwire

AI Design Lead

San Francisco, California, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$80k-$105kDetected 30 days ago
LLMsA/B TestingCybersecurityFigmaDesign SystemsMotion DesignBrand StrategyCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Highwire is reimagining what a creative designer can be.
  • The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $105,000, with the final offer based on a combination of factors, including education, relevant experience, skills, prior training, internal equity, and local geographic market data.

Responsibilities

  • Architect AI-Native Creative Systems: Partner with our Innovation and Creative teams to build and refine workflows that translate approved human-first designs into scalable, multi-format asset systems.
  • Bridge Craft and Scale: Maintain Highwire's standard for high-quality, high-gravity creative output while overseeing the automated generation, versioning, and adaptation of assets for global campaigns.
  • Operationalize AI Integration: Deeply integrate LLMs and design APIs (Figma, Canva, Adobe Firefly, etc.) into our daily creative lifecycle, streamlining the journey from concept to execution.
  • Brand Compliance: Maintain and execute AI-assisted compliance checks against client brand guidelines and visual standards.
  • Modular Production: Build and version modular asset systems that can support scaled campaign production across formats and channels, with the flexibility to surge as launch volume fluctuates.
  • Guardrails Maintenance: Maintain and update AI production guardrails libraries and brand standards documentation as brands and campaigns evolve, documenting prompt structures, workflow decisions, and asset versioning for team knowledge and QA purposes.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with senior Creative leads and account teams to ensure all AI outputs align with client-specific marketing objectives, ensuring our technology-enabled services increase multi-service attachment and client ROI.
  • LLM Deep-Dive: 3+ years of professional, hands-on experience working directly with LLM-driven platforms and AI-integrated design apps (e.g., generative image models, LLM-based layout tools).
  • Proven Design Craft: A robust portfolio of large-scale brand work that demonstrates mastery of typography, layout, motion design, and visual storytelling-competing with top-tier agency work.
  • Strategic & Technical Fluency: Proven ability to translate creative strategy into technical workflows; you don't just understand the "what," but the "how" of automating high-quality design.

Requirements

  • Your portfolio proves your ability to command large-scale brand work that resonates, and your experience demonstrates that you understand how to harness technology to amplify-not replace-the human element.
  • Proven ability to translate creative strategy into technical workflows
  • Comfort operating in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment with fluctuating production demands and the ability to adapt quickly to shifting campaign priorities.

Skills

  • Candidate Requirements

Compensation

  • The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $105,000, with the final offer based on a combination of factors, including education, relevant experience, skills, prior training, internal equity, and local geographic market data.

Company info

  • Team Empowerment
  • Growth Mindset
  • Inclusion Always
  • Fierce Distinction
  • Highwire is a strategic marketing communications agency at the intersection of innovation and industry.
  • At Highwire, we believe that storytelling fuels transformation.
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