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title: 'Senior Designer, Brand at Runlayer'
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# Senior Designer, Brand at Runlayer

- **Company:** Runlayer
- **Location:** New York, NY / United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer/20c5c775-fb11-47ea-a97e-465cfc6ab13d

## Job description

## About Runlayer

AI is transforming how every company operates, but most enterprises are stuck. They want to move fast with AI Agents, tools, and workflows, but they can't do it safely. We're fixing that.

Our team built AI Actions for OpenAI, shipped Zapier Agents to millions of users, and launched the first remote MCP server with Anthropic. We helped establish the protocol, and now we're building the platform enterprises need to actually put AI to work.

Runlayer is one platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents: purpose-built security, fine-grained governance, and complete observability so organizations can go all-in on AI across the entire company without the risk. We just raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, with participation from Khosla Ventures, bringing our total raised to $42M. Already trusted by Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, dbt Labs, and Decagon.

## About the Role

This role is Runlayer’s first brand designer and will partner closely with marketing and product design to help define how Runlayer shows up across all our web and in-person surfaces. This role is for a designer who is comfortable owning decisions, setting a high bar, and building a brand with intention while keeping the pace that a startup demands. You’ll be responsible for defining, shaping, and launching the Runlayer brand as a system. You’ll be collaborating with the design and marketing teams while delivering impact across the entire company. This role reports to the VP of Marketing and has the opportunity to build our Brand Design function at Runlayer.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead brand execution for Runlayer across marketing, web, events, sales, balancing foundational system work with high-visibility brand moments.
- Own and lead the end-to-end brand redesign across the organization, including identifying and selecting an outside agency partner where appropriate
- Design sales enablement materials like decks, one-pagers, and templates.
- Design marketing materials like OG cards, webpages, social posts, trade show booth design, and swag.
- Build generative AI brand tools, templates and standards that increase the speed and quality of brand work across the company.
- Partner closely with product design to create a cohesive relationship between brand and product, and helping to raise the craft bar across both.
- Hire a production designer or similar role, and contractors, as needed to support execution

## What We’re Looking For

- Someone with a strong creative POV and a track record of defining or meaningfully evolving a brand.
- Someone comfortable operating as a team of one in design, while being closely embedded in a collaborative marketing team.
- Someone who brings strong opinions loosely held, is open to feedback, and who has the judgment to know when to move fast and when to sweat the details.
- Someone who enjoys working across web, campaigns, print, events, decks, and motion, and want your work to show up everywhere.
- Interest in building custom AI tooling to scale brand work.
- Proficiency in a range of design and presentation tools, from Figma and Paper to Google Slides.
- Comfort managing multiple projects and deadlines.
- Strong collaboration and written communication skills.
- The ability to translate a complex technical infrastructure product into clear, compelling visual stories that resonate far beyond a technical audience.

## What We Offer

We provide a competitive package designed to attract and retain top talent who can work effectively with enterprise customers.

- Competitive salary and equity — compensation that reflects your expertise and customer-facing responsibilities.
- Paid time off — paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
- Professional development — budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success.
- Top-tier equipment — your choice of laptop and accessories to create your ideal work environment.
- Health benefits — comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Customer interaction opportunities — work directly with innovative companies and see the immediate impact of your work.

Not quite the right fit? Reach out to careers@runlayer.com with details about your experience and interests.

## About Runlayer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Runlayer provides an AI control plane that enables enterprises to securely govern, deploy, and monitor AI agents and tools across their organization.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Andrew Berman (CEO), Tal Peretz, Vitor Balocco

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI Security & Governance / AI Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (engineering, security, IT, operations, and business teams)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Give every employee the golden path to use agents, then watch adoption multiply. AI enablement, security, and control in one platform.

## Products & Services
- **Runlayer Agents**: On-demand agents running on Runlayer infrastructure. Employees can create agents for recurring work while platform owners keep approved tools, scoped credentials, policy, and audit in place.
- **Runlayer Catalog**: Reusable skills and plugins teams can publish and share with agents, giving AI capabilities an owner, approval state, dependency context, and usage history.
- **MCP Gateway**: Approved MCP (Model Context Protocol) access across AI clients and third-party agents, routing requests through identity, policy, and audit controls.
- **Runlayer Watch**: Shadow AI discovery and response tool that finds unmanaged MCPs, skills, plugins, and client configs.
- **Runlayer Guard**: Execution-time security checks for AI tool use, inspecting risky tool behavior before sensitive actions continue.
- **Agent IAM & Governance**: Actor-aware access control for AI usage, evaluating who is acting, which client or agent is involved, and what conditions apply.
- **ROI & Observability**: Adoption metrics, decisions, findings, and audit history showing what teams use and where access is blocked.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $41M ($11M Seed in November 2025, $30M Series A in June 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Felicis (lead), Khosla Ventures (lead). Backed by the best minds in AI & security, including the Head of Security from Cursor.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Raised $30M Series A in June 2026 from Felicis & Khosla Ventures
  - Named to "Rising in Cyber 2026"
  - Named the default for AI-native teams like Instacart, Gusto, Lemonade, dbt Labs, and AngelList
  - Headcount of 24 employees with +11.5% monthly growth
  - Operating in 5 countries (US, Poland, Israel, Spain, Canada)
  - Founding team has raised over $200M cumulatively and built AI at scale (Zapier MCP, Zapier Agents)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team expertise**: Co-founders built and launched Zapier MCP (Zapier's fastest growing product) and Zapier Agents, used by millions. They have firsthand experience solving the exact problem Runlayer addresses.
- **Comprehensive platform**: Unlike a simple MCP gateway, Runlayer adds catalog, identity controls, reusable capabilities, observability, and agent workflows — making governed agent work practical across the entire company.
- **Enterprise-ready**: Supports SSO/SCIM, self-hosted deployment, MDM rollout, and a sophisticated policy model that maps access to users, groups, roles, attributes, agent accounts, clients, tools, resources, and runtime conditions.
- **18,000+ pre-built MCPs**: Start with a massive library of MCPs for common enterprise tools, plus the ability to add internal MCPs.
- **Shadow AI discovery**: Unique capability to surface unmanaged AI usage from agents, MCPs, skills, plugins, and client configs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to meet enterprise demand, expanding the agent runtime and catalog, deepening security and governance capabilities, and growing the go-to-market team.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the default AI control plane for enterprises rolling out AI agents across engineering, security, IT, operations, and business teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include "Shipping," "Built this before," and leveraging AI internally. The team is described as "AI experts" who have built AI at scale. Emphasis on practical, real-world problem solving.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid/Remote roles available. Offices in NYC and San Francisco. Some roles are specifically NYC or SF-based.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
  - Founding team with deep AI expertise (Zapier, Nanit, Vowel)
  - Working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure and security problems
  - Small, high-impact team (24 employees) with significant funding ($41M)
  - Open roles across Engineering (Security, SRE, Platform, Identity, Product), Product (Design, Engineering), and GTM (Field Engineering, Demand Gen, Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Marketing, Enablement, Creative Director, Account Executive, Developer Relations)
  - Talent sourced from top companies: Zapier (6 employees), EQ Fitness, Rilla, Taboola, Nanit, Oso, Intel, GLG, C3 AI, Permit.io

## Sources
1. [runlayer.com](https://www.runlayer.com/)
2. [runlayer.com/about](https://www.runlayer.com/about)
3. [runlayer.com/platform](https://www.runlayer.com/platform)
4. [linkedin.com/company/runlayer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/runlayer)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/runlayer)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer)

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