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# Senior Marketing Designer at Fortell

- **Company:** Fortell
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fortell/0c81f545-ad41-4f50-9391-6a3fed1f168d

## Job description

At Fortell, we’re building a better hearing aid–one that helps people hear clearly, even in the noisiest places. As our Marketing Designer, you will own the visual identity and brand expression that attracts patients, earns their trust, and turns them into lifelong advocates. This role is one of the most influential at the company: your work will shape every surface a patient sees and touches across the entire journey from first brand impression through daily product use.

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, you will help set the brand design strategy, establish and evolve our visual language, and execute world-class creative across all consumer touchpoints. This is a highly strategic player-coach role–you are both the guardian of Fortell’s brand and a hands-on craft leader producing beautiful, conversion-driving design.

Your mission: Create a brand that is emotionally magnetic, clinically credible, and so delightful to interact with that people are proud to show and share it.

## WHAT YOU’LL OWN

You are accountable for the look and feel of the Fortell experience across:

Brand Design System

- Continue to refine brand identity, color, typography, iconography, imagery
- Systems that scale across channels and teams

Marketing & Growth

- Website design + ongoing optimization
- Email and lifecycle campaigns
- Organic social + paid advertising materials
- Print collateral and direct mail
- Out-of-home and clinic acquisition campaigns

In-Clinic Experience

- Environmental branding and signage
- Point-of-care materials and printed guides

## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

- A distinctive brand that commands attention and establishes credibility
- Marketing design that drives funnel performance → higher awareness, stronger conversion, increased referrals
- Consistent, premium expression across all markets and channels
- A brand people proudly recommend and evangelize

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Evolve Fortell’s visual brand strategy and expressions
- Translate positioning, insights, and performance data into compelling design
- Drive concepting, creative direction, and execution for marketing campaigns
- Oversee and manage external creative partners, agencies, and freelancers, as needed
- Review and quality-control all consumer-facing creative before launch
- Advocate for design excellence rooted in accessibility and empathy

## WHO YOU ARE

- A multi-disciplinary brand designer with taste, rigor, and curiosity
- Experience leading brand identity, digital, and physical design for a consumer product or premium brand
- Obsessively detail-oriented and able to move quickly without sacrificing craft
- Skilled at simplifying complexity into clear, beautiful visual narratives
- Collaborative and low-ego with a knack for building trust across cross-functional teams
- Motivated by mission: helping people experience life more fully through better hearing

## WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

We get one shot at a first impression. Our brand design determines:

- Whether someone stops scrolling
- Whether they believe our promise is worth their time
- Whether they feel proud to wear our product every day
- Whether they tell someone else about how Fortell changed their life

Design is how people experience our product and you will define it.

#LI-Hybrid

## About Fortell

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fortell builds AI-powered hearing aids that use custom silicon and advanced signal processing to clarify speech in noisy environments, helping people understand more of what they hear.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by prominent venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Matthew de Jonge (CEO), Andrew Casper (CTO), Igor (last name not publicly available), Cole (last name not publicly available)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Medical device manufacturing (hearing aids), artificial intelligence, healthtech
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals with hearing loss, especially those who struggle with speech comprehension in noise; also works with audiologists and clinics
- **Mission statement**: "To restore effortless connection through better hearing."

## Products & Services
- **Fortell AI Hearing Aids**: A hardware + software product featuring custom AI chips that separate speech from background noise in real time. The device is fitted and programmed through Fortell’s own audiology clinics (first clinic at 530 Park Ave, New York, NY). The product is marketed as a medical device and is available only after a personalized hearing evaluation and fitting by an audiologist.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not disclosed; backed by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners, Optum Ventures, Lux Capital, Vast Ventures, Good Friends, Positive Sum, Stonecroft, and Atreides Management.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners (lead investors); advisors include Dr. Barbara Weinstein (Professor of Audiology, NYU), Dr. Kevin Franck (former Chair, Hearing Loss Association of America), Dr. Matt Fitzgerald (Stanford), Dr. Jan Blustein (NYU School of Medicine).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 52 employees (LinkedIn) with +1.6% monthly headcount growth
  - 15 active job postings (as of mid-2025), with a 200% monthly increase and 1400% quarterly increase in postings
  - First clinic in New York City; planning to expand to multiple major U.S. cities (e.g., Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Bay Area; Boston; Greenwich, CT)
  - Clinical trials show 50x more words understood vs. leading AI hearing aid in challenging noise; 95% of participants preferred Fortell over 5 top-spec competitors

## Competitive Advantages
- **Custom AI silicon**: Proprietary chips designed specifically for real-time speech separation, not just amplification.
- **Clinical validation**: Randomized controlled trials overseen by external academics demonstrating significant improvement in speech comprehension.
- **Integrated clinic model**: Direct-to-consumer fitting and support through owned audiology clinics, ensuring proper tuning and customer satisfaction.
- **Strong investor syndicate**: Backing from top-tier VCs (Thrive, Founders Fund, Valor) provides credibility and resources.

## Strategic Focus
- **Clinic expansion**: Opening new clinics across the U.S. to increase accessibility.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering (firmware, DSP, AI, hardware), audiology, quality, supply chain, and operations.
- **Product refinement**: Continuous improvement of AI algorithms and hardware based on real-world feedback and clinical data.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as fast-moving, intentional, and mission-driven. Emphasis on cutting-edge science, human-centered design, and improving lives at scale.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid roles available (e.g., Firmware Engineer listed as hybrid on Built In). Office located in New York City with free lunch.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive salary and stock options; top-notch healthcare for employee and family; free lunch; generous paid time off; 401(k) plan; parental leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on custom silicon, AI/ML, DSP, and hardware in a startup environment with strong scientific backing. Team includes pioneers from Google, Butterfly Network, Mount Sinai, and other top organizations.

## Sources
1. [Fortell.com – Homepage](https://www.fortell.com/)
2. [Fortell.com – About Us](https://www.fortell.com/about-us)
3. [Fortell.com – Careers](https://www.fortell.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Fortell Research Inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortell-research)
5. [Built In – Fortell Research Inc Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/fortell-research-inc/jobs)

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