--- title: 'AI Designer at Recraft' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-designer-recraft-remote-m0w40p41qsrz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # AI Designer at Recraft - **Company:** Recraft - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft/64655615-7a15-4e41-bd92-d2c91201b7a8 ## Job description ## ABOUT US Founded in the US in 2022 and now based in London, UK, Recraft is an AI tool for professional designers, illustrators, and marketers, setting a new standard for excellence in image generation. We designed a tool that lets creators quickly generate and iterate original images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics with AI. Over 3 million users across 190+ countries have produced hundreds of millions of images using Recraft, and we're just getting started. Join a universe of professional opportunities, develop and support large-scale projects, and shape the future of creativity. We are committed to making Recraft an essential, daily tool for every designer and setting the industry standard. Our mission is to ensure that creators can fully control their creative process with AI, providing them with innovative tools to turn ideas into reality. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI, we want you on board! ## ABOUT THE ROLE You’ll work at the intersection of design and machine learning, applying our model to real creative scenarios to uncover where it works, where it fails, and how it can improve. We’re looking for practicing designers who work from real briefs, references, and constraints — not artificial prompt experiments. Your taste, judgment, and ability to define quality will directly shape how the model evolves. ## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Apply generative models to real-world design scenarios, including editorial illustration, marketing visuals, product imagery, brand assets, and early-stage concept ideation - Evaluate generated outputs to identify quality gaps, edge cases, and opportunities for improvement, documenting findings clearly and constructively - Compare and rank generated images using defined criteria such as composition, visual quality, consistency, and usability within product or marketing contexts - Source and curate image sets from permitted and licensed sources that reflect contemporary visual trends and broadly recognized style categories - Develop realistic use-case scenarios with clear objectives, constraints, and desired outcomes to guide model evaluation and iteration ## QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of professional experience as a designer, illustrator, art director, or visual creative - A portfolio with recent and relevant work - Strong visual taste and aesthetic judgment - Experience working with real design briefs and constraints - Ability to clearly explain why one visual solution is better than another - Comfort using experimental tools and providing structured feedback - Hands-on experience with AI image tools (and ideally chat-based AI) ## NICE TO HAVE - Background in branding, marketing, editorial, product design, or illustration - Agency or studio experience across multiple brands - Freelance experience across diverse projects - Interest in AI, generative models, or creative tooling ## WHAT WE OFFER - Full-time contract with flexible hours around core team availability - A front-row seat at the intersection of professional design and cutting-edge AI — you'll shape how the model evolves, not just test it - Direct impact: your taste and judgment will influence a product used by 3M+ designers worldwide - A small, focused team that moves fast and takes craft seriously - Competitive rate ## About Recraft ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Recraft builds a premium AI image generation and editing platform designed specifically for professional designers, marketers, and teams to create brand-consistent, high-quality visuals. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom (also has offices in San Francisco, California, United States) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Anna Veronika Dorogush (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Graphic Design / AI Image Generation - **Target customers**: B2B (professional designers, illustrators, marketers, creative teams at enterprises such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Salesforce) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To ensure that creators can have full control over their creative process with AI, providing them with innovative tools to turn ideas into reality.” (Source: [recraft.ai/about](https://www.recraft.ai/about)) ## Products & Services - **Recraft V3 (AI Image Generator)**: Core foundation model for generating high-quality images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics. Excels at prompt understanding, text rendering, and consistent brand style without training. - **Vector Generator**: Generates complex, editable vector graphics—a unique capability in the image generation market. - **Mockup Generator**: Creates product mockups with precise control over layout and elements. - **Image Upscaler / Background Remover / AI Eraser / Image Vectorizer**: Standard editing tools integrated into the platform. - **Infinite Canvas with Real-Time Collaboration**: Allows teams to work together on design projects. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding is **$42M** (Series A: $12M in Jan 2024 led by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman; Series B: $30M in May 2025 led by Accel with participation from Khosla Ventures and Madrona). - **Key Metric**: - Annual Revenue: **$9M** (estimated by LinkedIn) OR **$5M ARR** (stated by TechCrunch as recently passed). - Users: **5M+** (LinkedIn) or **4M** (TechCrunch); **350M+** images generated (early 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Khosla Ventures, Madrona, Nat Friedman. Trusted by designers at Ogilvy, HubSpot, Netflix, Asana, Airbus, Amazon, NVIDIA, Salesforce. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee headcount: 44 (up 34.1% YoY). - Traffic: ~1.8M monthly visits (bounce rate 0.4%, 3.7 pages/visit). - LinkedIn followers: 8,738 (+87.6% yearly growth). - First AI image generation company to earn AIUC certification (AI image certification). ## Competitive Advantages - **Own Foundation Models**: Recraft builds its own models from scratch (not wrappers), competing directly with Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, and Black Forest Labs. - **Brand Consistency**: Can generate images that maintain exact brand styles (logos, colors, fonts) without fine-tuning or extra editing—critical for graphic design workflows. - **Vector & Typography Mastery**: Unique ability to generate editable vector art and place text of any size/length precisely, solving a pain point for designers. - **Benchmark Leadership**: Its model (codename “red_panda”, later known as V3) topped the Artificial Analysis benchmark, beating DALL-E and Midjourney. - **Founding Team Expertise**: Founder and CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush led ML teams at Yandex (Russian Google competitor); team includes top talent from Yandex, Miro, Huawei, and other tech companies. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to make Recraft an essential daily tool for every professional designer. - Push the frontier of generative AI for graphic design, with emphasis on full creative control, structured output, and production-ready visuals. - Expand reach to larger enterprises and deepen integrations with existing design workflows (Canva-competitive positioning). - Maintain model-first approach to stay ahead in quality and capabilities. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Mission**: “Model-first company” building foundational AI; strong emphasis on engineering excellence and mission-critical work. Founder Anna Veronika Dorogush (solo female CEO) brings a unique background (professional model turned ML engineer) and values focused effort over grinding. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence in London (HQ) and San Francisco. The team is small (44 people) with a flat structure—heavy focus on technical roles (20% technical, 9% research). Talent sources include Yandex, Miro, Adobe, and Meta. - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but early-stage growth mode suggests hands-on impact, ownership, and exposure to cutting-edge AI. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong research and engineering backbone (5 researchers, 11 technical staff); opportunity to work on novel image generation models from scratch. ## Sources 1. [recraft.ai/about](https://www.recraft.ai/about) 2. [recraft.ai](https://www.recraft.ai/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/recraftai](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/recraftai) 4. [techcrunch.com – “A stealth AI model beat DALL-E and Midjourney…”](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/a-stealth-ai-model-beat-dall-e-and-midjourney-on-a-popular-benchmark-its-creator-just-landed-30m/) 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/recraft) ## Other roles at Recraft - [User Acquisition Manager (Performance)](https://feeny.ai/job/user-acquisition-manager-performance-recraft-remote-16gx9nwcn76n) - [Performance Creative Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/performance-creative-designer-recraft-remote-e2jshswqygqz) - [Account Executive, API — Mid-Market & Enterprise](https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-api-mid-market-enterprise-recraft-london-me56zzt298eq) — London, United Kingdom - [Senior / Staff ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-ml-engineer-recraft-london-2jb91wg9mpnf) — London, United Kingdom - [AI Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-designer-raspberry-ai-united-states-dymw5k5c0qe2) — United States