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title: 'Brand Designer at Clerk'
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# Brand Designer at Clerk

- **Company:** Clerk
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clerk/22d74851-1657-4dc6-9a44-b81900131486

## Job description

## About Clerk

Clerk is on a mission to solve the user identity layer once and for all. We are a globally distributed team dedicated to providing best-in-class developer infrastructure to build the next generation of AI software. Today, we provide developers with full-stack React components and hooks like [](https://clerk.dev/components/sign-up), [](https://clerk.dev/components/sign-in), [](https://clerk.dev/components/user-profile), [useUser](https://clerk.com/docs/references/react/use-user), and [useOrganization](https://clerk.com/docs/references/react/use-organization). These APIs allow developers to build hard-to-get-right infrastructure for user identity, organization management and billing flows. We believe that [a component is worth a thousand APIs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=enUuBY3HXh4).

## What you will do

You’ll join Visual Designers, UI Engineers, and fellow Product Designers on the Clerk Design team to own and uplevel the Clerk brand. You’ll optimize for customer delight, flexibility, and ease-of-use within a complicated, technical domain. We will expect you to:

- Uplevel the Clerk brand. Lead creative direction and design to personally ship brand assets including brand identity, .com, product launches and more
- Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team. You’ll work with UI engineers, animators, product designers and more to create an elevated brand identity.
- Bring innovative approaches to brand design. Use new approaches to bring digital experiences to life and create scalable tools that increase high quality brand output
- Not settle for less than pixel-perfection. You’ll work with a world-class UI Engineering team to bring your Figma frames to life. You set the bar for quality.
- Elevate our design culture. You’ll support and expand the Clerk Design visual language, asset library, brand design system, and design processes.

## Who you are

You’re a Senior(+) level Brand Designer or Visual Designer with experience working in deverloper tools, AI or infra related brands. You love your craft. You push UI Engineers to build experiences they’re unsure if they’re capable of (and you expect them to do the same for you).

- You’re in the Americas. The Clerk Design team is spread across the globe; Product Design currently spans UTC+1 to UTC+5:30. You live in a location that is ±3 hours within U.S. Mountain Time (MDT, UTC−06:00).
- You have technical fluency. You have a deep understanding of designing interactive software on the web. You don’t need to author production-ready front-end code, but it’s a big plus if you can.
- You work iteratively. Your process embodies a “ship and iterate” mentality. You value the quick pace of a growing startup like Clerk.
- You own your time. You’re a self-starter who would rather find a tough problem to solve instead of waiting for a new task. To be successful at Clerk, you need to make the most of the autonomy you’re given.

## Benefits

- Competitive Salary – We want you to know that we value the skills and experience you bring to the table. We go out of our way to make sure that you feel fairly compensated.
- Equity Ownership – At Clerk, we believe in shared success. That's why we offer a stock option plan so that everyone can benefit from the growth and prosperity of the company.
- Health Coverage – We care about your well-being. That's why we offer top-tier health insurance to ensure that your health needs are fully met.
- Work Gear - Set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice. At Clerk, we want to ensure that you have everything you need to perform at your best.
- Flexible Vacation Policy – We believe in work-life balance and trust you to take the time you need. Although we recommend 25 days per year, our vacation policy is unlimited. This is in addition to observing national holidays specific to your country of residence.
- Diverse and Inclusive Team – Join our exceptional, diverse, and globally distributed team at Clerk. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best in building impactful products and tools for the modern web.

## About Clerk

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clerk provides a complete user management and authentication platform for modern applications, offering embeddable UIs, APIs, and admin dashboards.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; raised $105M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Colin Sidoti

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Developer Tools / Authentication & User Management / SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, product teams, and startups building web and mobile applications (SMBs to enterprises)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Solve user management once and for all" – providing a complete, extendable user object that handles authentication, billing, organizations, and more.

## Products & Services
- **Clerk Authentication**: Full-stack authentication with support for MFA, social sign-on, magic links, email/SMS, passwordless, API keys, bot detection, and session management. Type: SaaS/API
- **Clerk B2B Authentication**: Multi-tenant auth with custom roles, auto-join, invitations, and organization management for SaaS applications. Type: SaaS/API
- **Clerk Platform**: Embeddable user management for platforms, allowing customers to provision Clerk apps, white-label sign-in, and manage sessions. Type: SaaS/API
- **Clerk Billing**: Subscription billing integrated with user management, enabling plan definition, subscription gating, and unified user-subscription data. Type: SaaS/API
- **Clerk Components**: Drop-in UI components for authentication, profile management, organization management, and billing. Type: UI library (React, Next.js, etc.)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $105M (latest Series C); 15,000+ companies served; team of ~100 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, CRV, Madrona, s28 Capital, Georgian, Anthropic, and individual investors including Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Calvin French-Owen (Segment), Max Stoiber, Andrew Miklas, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $50M Series C in 2024 (approx. 1 year ago); expanding from authentication into billing and platform features; trusted by fast-growing startups and enterprises.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines authentication, user management, billing, and multi-tenancy in one integrated solution, reducing integration complexity.
- **Developer experience**: Pixel-perfect UI components, framework-specific SDKs (Next.js, React, Expo, etc.), and a focus on “obsessive attention to detail.”
- **Extensibility**: The User object is designed to be extended with third-party services (billing, email, background checks), creating a long-term platform moat.
- **Strong investor backing**: Backed by top-tier VCs with expertise in developer tools (a16z, CRV, Madrona) and strategic investors from successful dev-tool companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand beyond authentication**: Grow into a full user management platform by adding billing, email, and other extensions to the User object.
- **Platform play**: Enable customers to build their own multi-tenant auth and user management for the apps their customers build.
- **Global team growth**: Hiring Staff+ engineers across the stack to support product expansion and scale.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, fully-remote team with global talent; emphasis on ownership and growth; described as a place where “everyone has the freedom to take ownership.”
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Fully remote team; headquarters in San Francisco but distributed across the world.
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive salary, equity stock option plan, top-tier health insurance (US-based employees), work equipment budget, flexible/unlimited vacation policy, and an inclusive environment.
- **Engineering culture**: Tight-knit, product-minded team working on infrastructure-scale problems (auth, billing, multi-tenancy); opportunities to make significant impact in a fast-growing company.

## Sources
1. [clerk.com](https://clerk.com/) – Company homepage
2. [clerk.com/company](https://clerk.com/company) – Company info page
3. [clerk.com/careers](https://clerk.com/careers) – Careers page with team size, funding, benefits
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/clerkdev) – CB Insights company profile

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