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title: 'Brand & Marketing Designer at Element451'
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# Brand & Marketing Designer at Element451

- **Company:** Element451
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/element451/5a7f61e6-46db-4145-a9f9-cdd575f1af5f

## Job description

## ABOUT ELEMENT451

At Element451, we're building the AI platform that moves every student forward. Our platform takes action across the entire student journey, from prospect to success, so colleges and universities can deliver better enrollment and student outcomes. We have two product lines, Element AI CRM and the Bolt Agent Platform, and a team of 120+ people around the globe. We're backed by a $175M investment from PSG to scale our mission.

## THE ROLE

As our Brand & Marketing Designer, you'll own how Element451 looks and feels everywhere our brand shows up. You'll steward our brand design system, bring our AI story to life through clear and memorable visuals, and give every team the tools to stay on brand. You'll be a creative partner to marketing, product, sales, and leadership, and you'll direct the outside partners who extend our team. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for a designer who cares as much about systems as craft.

## WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Brand & Identity

- Own and evolve the Element451 brand design system, and set the quality bar for everything external-facing
- Build templates, tools, and AI skills that help teams across the company create on-brand work on their own
- Partner with our product team to create a visual product hierarchy that carries across all of our assets

Web & Digital

- Own the design of our website, social channels, email, and other digital properties
- Serve as the in-house design partner to our web development agency
- Design landing pages and paid creative for campaigns, gated content, and product launches

Product Marketing & Sales Enablement

- Partner with product marketing to bring launches to life through product visuals, launch creative, and feature pages
- Turn complex AI and product concepts into clear diagrams, product shots, and visual stories
- Own the visual design of our sales deck and sales collateral

Events

- Own the visual identity of Engage, our flagship conference, and the events under the Engage umbrella
- Design booth environments, print, and swag for industry conferences

Video & Motion

- -Build and maintain a motion design system that keeps our brand consistent in every video
- Create motion graphics, animated product screens, and short-form social video
- Partner with video production teams on graphics packages from concept through final cut

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

Required

- 5 to 10 years of brand or marketing design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or technology
- A portfolio that shows range, craft, and systems thinking
- Experience building brand systems and templates that scale across channels and teams
- Experience contributing to a rebrand or brand refresh
- Ability to turn complex technical ideas into clear visuals
- Hands-on motion design and short-form video editing skills
- Experience working with developers or web agencies to ship polished pages. You don't need to code.
- Experience managing outside creative partners
- Comfort with AI-assisted design workflows, and good judgment about where AI helps and where it doesn't
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities without lowering the bar
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders at every level

## Nice to Have

- Higher education experience
- Experience with HubSpot and common CMS platforms
- Experience with Notion
- Lottie, Jitter, or Rive for lightweight animation
- [Frame.io](http://Frame.io) or similar video review tools

## TOOLS YOU'LL USE

- Design: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva
- Motion and video: After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Presentations: PowerPoint and Google Slides
- AI: design tools such as Claude, Adobe Firefly, or Midjourney

## HOW WE MEASURE SUCCESS

- Element451 looks cohesive and premium at every touchpoint
- Teams across the company create on-brand work on their own, using the systems you build
- Production moves faster as reusable systems replace one-off design
- Our AI story is easier to understand through clear visuals and motion

## YOUR PORTFOLIO

We care about how you think as much as what you make. Please include examples of:

- A brand or identity system you built or extended, and the thinking behind it
- B2B marketing work across web, campaigns, sales materials, and software
- Complex ideas made clear through diagrams, product visuals, or motion
- Motion graphics or short-form video
- Templates or guidelines that helped non-designers create on-brand work
- How a project moved from brief to delivery, and the results it drove where you can share them

## BENEFITS

- Medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) with 4% employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Home office stipend

## About Element451

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Element451 provides an AI-native CRM and AI agent platform purpose-built for higher education to help institutions manage the full student lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth Equity funded)
- **Headquarters**: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Higher Education Technology (EdTech), AI-powered CRM, Student Engagement
- Target customers: B2B; colleges and universities (including large public universities, community college systems, and private institutions)
- Mission or purpose statement: To put AI to work for higher education, helping institutions engage students, reduce staff burden, and drive outcomes at every stage of the student lifecycle.

## Products & Services
- **Element (AI-Native CRM)**: A full-lifecycle CRM that connects data, workflows, and AI agents across every team and every stage of the student journey — from marketing and admissions to enrollment, student success, and continuing education & workforce development.
- **Bolt (AI Agent Engine)**: A platform deploying specialized AI agents across the student lifecycle. Agents work inside existing institutional systems to handle tasks like 24/7 prospect engagement, application reading and scoring, fraud detection, transcript evaluation, student risk monitoring, and proactive outreach. Specialized agents exist for Marketing, Admissions, Student Success, and CE & Workforce.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised of $184.75M (latest round: Growth Equity, $175M raised ~2 years ago)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include PSG, Cultivation Capital, Blueprint Equity, London Venture Partners, Cofounders Capital, and 3 others. Key strategic partner: Encoura (announced June 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted by 350+ higher education institutions (including Columbia University, Louisiana State University, Tulane University, the North Carolina Community College System, and the University System of Georgia). Surpassed 60 million AI-powered student journeys. Reported doubled Q1 growth in 2026 and expanded executive team to support next phase of AI innovation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Platform**: Unlike bolt-on “wraparound” agent solutions, Element451’s platform is built from the ground up with AI agents embedded in its core data and workflow engine.
- **Full Lifecycle Coverage**: Covers the entire student journey from first inquiry to graduation and beyond (including continuing education), offering a unified platform rather than point solutions.
- **Specialized Agents**: Bolt deploys agents purpose-built for specific workflows (marketing, admissions, student success) that work inside existing institutional tech stacks.
- **Proven Scale**: Supports over 60 million student journeys across 350+ institutions, demonstrating enterprise-grade reliability.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include expanding AI agent capabilities across the student lifecycle, deepening strategic partnerships (e.g., with Encoura), and driving growth through AI innovation in higher education. The company is focused on addressing the “inflection point” in higher ed: declining enrollment, rising student expectations for AI-powered experiences, and staff burnout.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company describes itself as a group of “passionate builders, educators, visionaries, and problem solvers” who believe AI is one of the most important human inventions.
- **Impact**: Employees work on technology that directly addresses critical challenges in higher education — enrollment decline, staff workload reduction, and student success.
- **Growth Stage**: As a well-funded private company (over $184M raised) with doubled Q1 growth, Element451 is in a high-growth phase, offering potential for career advancement.
- **Work Arrangement**: Not explicitly stated, but the company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC (1 Glenwood, Floor 5). Open positions include Account Executive and Enablement Lead (per LinkedIn).
- **Notable**: The company encourages passionate candidates to submit resumes to jobs@element451.com even if no current opening matches.

## Sources
1. [element451.com](https://element451.com/)
2. [element451.com/about-us](https://element451.com/about-us)
3. [element451.com/careers](https://element451.com/careers)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/element451)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/element451)

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