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# Graphic Designer at Shade.inc

- **Company:** Shade.inc
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $95k–$135k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shade-inc/a15e7d67-90d6-4ebc-8999-676a78319cad

## Job description

Location In-Person, NYC (Noho Office)

## Compensation

Salary $95,000-$135,000k + equity

What’s Shade? Shade is scaling fast. In 18 months, we've built the combined technology of FrameIO (acquired by Adobe for $1.275B) and LucidLink ($40M ARR), layered with proprietary AI for visual search and video labeling. We process thousands of hours of video per day, powering end-to-end workflows for major customers across post-production, creative agencies, sports, and internal media teams—including Salesforce, Grüns, HelloFresh, Related, Deloitte, and Motorola. We're growing 150% QoQ with 120% NRR. Backed by Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary, and Bling.

## What's next

We're building the platform creative teams actually need. We're not here to generate AI slop—we're eliminating the tedious parts of creative work: waiting for downloads, manually tagging files, sorting archives, license verification. Because we operate at the file system level, we're positioned as critical infrastructure for how creative teams store, access, and leverage their media. That foundation unlocks endless possibility. Takeaway We're laying the tracks as we drive the train. You’re getting in on the ground floor of the next Cursor or Figma.

## What we’re looking for

An experienced graphic designer to join full-time as our 3rd design hire, working closely with founding designer Karina and CEO Brandon. What this looks like:

- You’ve scaled brand designs before: 2-3 years of experience, preferably at a scaling startup (Series A and beyond), you know how to work and maintain a consistent brand image and are unafraiad to work across any surface: booth designs, digital, coffee cups (yes this was an ask), merch, motion graphics
- Static and Animated Experience: Has worked with Adobe Suite in After Effects, Jitter, Flutter, Rive, can do static designs but also motion graphics for animations, lower-thirds. Comfortable making product mockups in Photoshop We want to see your work - Animation, data visualization, illustration, editorial, packaging, or anything else that shows your range.
- Framer & Figma expert: fluent in variables, auto-layout, responsive design, prototyping, and component library management. You’ve worked with Framer, CMS management and image and SVG optimizations
- High ownership: you’re happy being the first and last set of eyes on a feature buildout
- Engineer-friendly: you want to work with our engineers, understand our tech stack, and are experienced in design-developer handoff. You defend your designs but are mindful of implementation cost.
- High empathy: you’re highly motivated and selfishly invested in solving creative friction, you understand our end user and when you don’t, you learn to
- Meticulous but pragmatic: you’re prone to memorize HEX codes and can distinguish Geist from Inter by eye but **are willing to sacrifice perfection for speed and product
- Shipped work across mediums: We’re looking for real, shipped graphics / items with live links—ideally spanning web, desktop, and mobile. Concept work is great, but we also want to experience the actual end-to-end UX.
- Show us how you organize your work in Figma: share a screenshot or prototype of your flow structure, theme organization, or token naming. It doesn’t need to be perfect—don’t let an “imperfect” portfolio keep you from sending examples.

Perks! You are more than “shareholder value.” We build our team around personal investment and ambition, so we offer benefits like:

- Office snacks, free lunch, comp-ed dinners
- Full health insurance (w. dental & vision), 401k with % match
- Unlimited PTO
- Lifetime gym membership
- Commuter cards for subway/bus —> we work in-person
- ^^ You’ll want to work in-person! We are fun! Our office is cool!

And, of course, these are in addition to salary and equity. At Shade, you are the “shareholder.”

Bonus Points “You don’t know what you don’t know” — CEO Brandon We view team growth as an opportunity for skill capture. These aren’t “mission critical,” but they will put your application over the edge:

- Product experience and design system work
- Comfortable working with engineers and engineering handoff
- Token management
- Desire to work on brand messaging, visual strategy, more conceptual aspects of design

## About Shade.inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Shade provides an AI-powered intelligent cloud platform and cloud NAS that serves as a single source of truth for creative teams to store, stream, review, and automatically tag media assets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; latest round $14M Series Unknown in April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (734 Broadway, Floor 4)
- **Founded**: 2022 (per LinkedIn) or 2024 (per BuiltIn) — conflicting reports; LinkedIn states 2022, BuiltIn 2024
- **Founders**: Brandon Fan (CEO/Cofounder) and Emerson Dove (Cofounder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Desktop Computing Software Products / Creative Workflow & Media Asset Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – media teams, post-production houses, sports media, film & TV production, creative agencies, real estate, construction, houses of worship, and global brands
- **Mission**: "Build the file system for creative teams" (per LinkedIn company description)

## Products & Services
- **Shade Platform (AI Cloud NAS)**: A unified cloud file system that replaces fragmented tools (Dropbox, Frame.io, etc.) with intelligent file streaming, native review & approval, automated metadata tagging (facial recognition, scene description, shot type), and AI-powered vector search. Includes end-to-end data migration services and enterprise-grade compliance (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, TPN, GDPR). Employs a cloud NAS architecture that syncs local edits without waiting for downloads.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $24.2M (three rounds: $6M seed in 2022, $4.2M seed in 2024, $14M venture round in April 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Construct Capital (led 2026 round), Bling Capital, and other unnamed investors
- **Growth Signals**: Winner of 2026 NAB Product of the Year; headcount grew 131.2% YoY (from 12 to 27 employees); website monthly visits grew >1,275% year-over-year; active job postings increased 500% month-over-month (6 open roles as of mid-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, TPN, GDPR compliant – critical for film/TV and healthcare workflows
- **AI-First Asset Management**: Built-in facial recognition, automatic metadata tagging, and natural-language search (finds assets by transcript, scene description, or even jersey numbers)
- **AI Privacy Guarantee**: Customer data is never used for training AI models – a key differentiator for IP-sensitive creative teams
- **Unified Platform**: Combines storage, collaboration, review/approval, and archival in one tool, replacing multi-vendor workflows

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build AI-native features (facial recognition, intelligent metadata, transcription) and enterprise integrations (plug-ins for Adobe, DaVinci Resolve, etc.)
- **Enterprise Go-to-Market**: Targeting mid-market and enterprise media organizations, especially studios, sports teams, and large creative agencies
- **Hybrid Work Enablement**: Emphasizing remote team collaboration with real-time local streaming and multi-site sync

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Built by creatives, for creatives – the company describes itself as "a creative-first file system." Small, fast-growing team (27 people) with a startup vibe.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – offices in New York City (HQ, 734 Broadway) and Ann Arbor, MI. Employees work a mix of remote and on-site.
- **Engineering Focus**: Active hiring for AI Search Engineer, Founding Frontend Engineer, and Junior Software Engineer – strong emphasis on AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and UX for creative professionals.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but rapid growth and recent funding suggest strong runway; involvement in cutting-edge AI for media.

## Sources
1. [shade.inc](https://shade.inc/) – company website, product features, compliance, awards
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shade-inc) – headcount, hybrid policy, year founded (2024), office locations
3. [linkedin.com/company/shadeinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shadeinc) – employee count, growth %, funding details, founders, locations, recent departures
4. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/shade-inc) – executive rosters, org structure
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/shade-inc](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shade-inc) – current open positions

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