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title: 'Brand Designer at Co–Star'
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# Brand Designer at Co–Star

- **Company:** Co–Star
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar/jobs/6126693004

## Job description

## About Co-Star

Someone downloads Co–Star every 5 seconds.

In the five years since we launched, 25% of young people 18-25 in the US have downloaded the app. [Big Sean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAl8qGIrcSI&t=203s) has rapped about us, Ariana Grande & [Kevin Durant](https://www.12up.com/posts/kevin-durant-posts-cryptic-instagram-story-amid-free-agency-and-injury-rumors-01dcsry062kv) post screenshots to their IGs, and we’ve been [App of the Day](https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1458814851) twice. We’ve been featured in the New York Times three times, this year on the cover of [NYT Style](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html). We have a global following, in 193 countries – missing just North Korea and Eritrea.

We don't pay for marketing – we designed the app to go viral, and it did.

Astrology has been popular for 4,000 years.

Astrology is a tool for speaking about yourself, about who you are, what you’re experiencing, and how you relate to other people – in other words, a language for the things that really matter. It’s a structured system, based on the physical locations of the planets in the sky, developed over millennia 4,000 years of practice.

Everyone has memories of reading a horoscope in the newspaper. You know your sign the same way you know the name of the street you grew up on. [An average of 43% of Americans have believed in astrology since the 1970s.](https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20207/data#supplemental-tables)

We’re merging the resonance of the humanities with the precision of technology.

Co-Star uses real-time NASA data and AI to bring this practice to the modern age. Every day, Co–Star generates millions of hyper-personalized horoscopes – a scale never previously possible. Every word of it is based on each person’s unique astrology: where the stars physically were when they were born and where those same stars are now. Co–Star combines the art of ancient practice with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, creating the first synthetic text to be called “wildly beautiful.”

We’re a small, experienced team.

Co-Star is a team of 30, with experience in big tech (Amazon, Google, Snapchat), entertainment (Frank Ocean, Adult Swim), and academia (Harvard, Stanford, NYU, Columbia).

## About the brand designer role

We're looking for a talented visual designer to shape how Co-Star shows up outside of the app, in the broader world. We are looking for someone with a fresh, opinionated, and high-quality design foundation who can create work that feels distinct, not what’s now but what’s next.

You'll partner closely with the leadership on campaigns and visual storytelling across earned and owned channels. This is a freelance engagement with potential for a long-term partnership as the work (and team) grows.

## What you'll do

- Design campaign visuals: ads, social, launches — from concept through finished assets
- Bring editorial design sensibility to our owned channels: email/welcome series, blog, campaign imagery
- Develop visual systems that are expressive rather than corporate
- Partner with marketing on what earned and owned should look and feel like
- Collaborate async with a small, fast-moving team

You might be a fit if

- You're a senior IC — roughly 5–8 years in — with a portfolio of expressive, culturally fluent graphic design: editorial, campaigns, identities across print and digital
- Typography and composition are your first language
- You can direct as well as execute: you've shaped campaigns, not just produced assets for them
- You're plugged into visual culture across art, fashion, publishing, music, and the internet
- You work well remotely and independently

## Nice to have

- Editorial/publication experience (print or digital magazines)
- Motion or illustration
- You already make things with generative tools

Logistics

- Freelance/contract, part-time to start, with room to grow
- Fully remote, anywhere. No travel required (though you're always welcome in NYC)

To apply

Send your portfolio. We care about taste, range, and point of view.

## About Co–Star

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Co–Star is a hyper-personalized astrology app that uses NASA data and AI to generate real-time horoscopes, birth charts, and social compatibility tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (raised $21M in total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Astrology, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking
- **Target customers**: B2C; primarily Millennial and Gen Z consumers interested in astrology, self-reflection, and social connection
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We’re hacking tech, culture, and consciousness to build new practices for self-reflection and deep connection." [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Co–Star App**: A hyper-personalized, social astrology app available on iOS. It uses NASA data to generate full birth charts and real-time horoscopes based on the complete positions of the planets, moon, and houses—not just the sun sign. Features include daily horoscopes, compatibility analysis with friends, and social features like top friends for the day and asynchronous messaging. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/)
- **Email Horoscopes**: Users can sign up to receive daily horoscopes via email. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/)
- **Natal Chart Tool**: Provides in-depth personality analysis based on the day, time, and place of birth, created in partnership with professional astrologers and AI. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/natal-chart)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $21,000,000 raised from investors behind companies like Twitter, Discord, Snap, and Glossier. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by investors from companies like Glossier, Twitter, Discord, and Snap. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar) & [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
- **Growth Signals**: Five years after launch, someone downloads Co–Star every 5 seconds. The app has been referenced by celebrities like Big Sean, Ariana Grande, and Kevin Durant. It has been Apple's "App of the Day" twice. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Uses NASA data and proprietary technology to generate accurate, real-time horoscopes based on the full birth chart (not just the sun sign), differentiating it from generic magazine horoscopes. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/)
- **AI + Human Insight**: Combines state-of-the-art AI models like GPT-3 with insights from staff poets and professional astrologers to create "hyper-personalized" synthetic text. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
- **Strong Brand & Cultural Relevance**: Has built a distinctive, often-described-as brutally honest tone. The app is deeply integrated into pop culture, with high-profile celebrity endorsements and viral social sharing. [vanityfair.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
- **Network Effects**: Social features (friend compatibility, messaging) create a sticky ecosystem that encourages daily engagement and organic growth.

## Strategic Focus
- **Building the Social Layer**: The company is actively building out social features like "top friends for the day," asynchronous messaging, and groups, developed in tandem with practicing group therapists to foster deeper connections. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar)
- **Scaling Reliability**: Focused on increasing app reliability as the user base grows. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar)
- **Developing New Models for Relationships**: Aiming to use technology and astrology to create new ways for humans to relate to themselves and each other. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Describes itself as "thoughtful, open and tight-knit." The culture emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and cross-functional collaboration—writers work directly with AI models, and designers collaborate with therapists. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: While based in NYC, the company is open to hiring remote candidates. However, many roles listed on Built In are described as "In-Office," suggesting a hybrid or in-person preference for some positions. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/co-star-0)
- **Notable Perks**:
  - Fully covered $0 deductible healthcare (including therapy, vision, and dental)
  - 401(k) with 5% matching
  - Unlimited vacation + a 2-week company-wide recharge at the end of each year
  - 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
  - Equipment budget
  - In-house astrologer readings for all new employees [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar)
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers give presentations on communities they've been a part of. The company offers a $5,000 referral bonus for engineers, product managers, and data scientists. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
- **Hypothesis-Driven Experimentation**: The team uses data to inform decisions, ships MVPs fast, A/B tests everything, and interviews users to validate hypotheses. [costarastrology.com](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)

## Sources
1. [costarastrology.com - About Page](https://www.costarastrology.com/about/)
2. [costarastrology.com - Jobs Page](https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs)
3. [costarastrology.com - Homepage](https://www.costarastrology.com/)
4. [costarastrology.com - Natal Chart](https://www.costarastrology.com/natal-chart)
5. [greenhouse.io - Co–Star Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/costar)
6. [builtin.com - Co-Star Profile](https://builtin.com/company/co-star-0)

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