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# Visual Designer - San Francisco/ Los Angeles at Plaud

- **Company:** [Plaud](https://feeny.ai/companies/plaud)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plaud/077bef7d-5159-49cc-a15f-b8f81bb3884f

## Job description

About Plaud Inc.

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/, X https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/plaudai, Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/?viewAsMember=true, and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI

## Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

## What you will do

- This role will help showcase how our products and brand are visualized and communicated across digital and real-world touchpoints
- Creative Workflow: Create sophisticated, high-impact marketing assets across campaign key visuals and media: website, email, social media, events, ad and digital media channels
- Visual Narratives: Create compelling visual narratives that convey brand story and complex product features in accessible ways
- Cross-department collaboration: Partner with product, marketing, and sales teams to develop campaigns that drive branding, awareness, and conversion
- Optimization: Track and analyze brand design effectiveness and optimize designs based on feedback to continuously improve brand visibility and credibility
- Trend and technologies: Stay current on design trends and technologies to continuously innovate our visual approach

## Qualifications

- Have 4 to 5 years of experience managing iconic design for brands, gained at a creative agency known for excellence in craft and close collaboration with design teams, or in-house at a modern technology company with a compelling mix of products
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Design, Visual Communication, Art, Brand Management, or a related field. You are a visionary designer with a strong opinion
- Proficient in Figma, Adobe Suite required, with basic knowledge of animation in Aftx
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, able to work with marketing, product, and management teams to ensure timely and high-quality design delivery
- Are highly hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in fast-moving, high-visibility environments. Ability to present and sell in your design thinking
- Firm grasp of brand identity, visual systems, templated design workflow
- Advanced conceptual (visual verbal) thinking, with a strong portfolio to present
- Ability to leverage AI to empower creative workflows

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in creative design for software platforms
- 2D motion design: Independently create 2D motion design in Afx, delivering artful design techniques and aesthetics as animations that clarify software features and functionality.
- Experience in digital media advertising, with a focus on presenting software functionalities creatively and using animation
- Quick grasp of new technologies and flexibility to adapt as needed

## What we offer

- Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
- Competitive Compensation: $110K-$155K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
- Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
- Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
- New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
- Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
- Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
- Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks. Commuter Benefits.

Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics..

## About Plaud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plaud builds an AI-powered hardware and software note-taking platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations to help professionals stay present and productive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or in standard search results

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered productivity software and consumer hardware
- Target customers: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers, medical practitioners) and B2B (teams and enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Amplify human intelligence" – building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

## Products & Services
- **Plaud Note (Hardware)**: An AI note-taking device that records conversations and uses AI to generate transcripts, summaries, action items, and key points. Award-winning hardware design.
- **Plaud App (Software)**: Companion app for transcription (112 languages), AI-powered summaries ("Plaud Intelligence"), search ("Ask Plaud"), and export/sharing/integration. Available on mobile and web.
- **Plaud Cloud**: Encrypted private cloud sync for cross-device access, with user-controlled data storage (on-device or cloud).
- **Subscription Plans**: Free tier (1,200 mins/mo transcription), Pro Plan ($99.99/year), Unlimited Plan ($239.99/year – unlimited transcription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023 (as of mid-2026); used in over 170 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. Featured in major media outlets (unspecified on site).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid user growth to 2M+ in ~3 years; expansion from a single product to a suite with multiple subscription tiers; global office presence (San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, Beijing); compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 – signaling enterprise readiness and expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Software Integration**: A dedicated hardware device for note-taking (unlike pure software competitors like Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai), enabling frictionless, ambient capture.
- **Privacy-First Architecture**: Data is never sold or used to train AI models; encryption in transit and at rest; user controls what syncs; multiple global security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO).
- **Multilingual & Multimodal**: Transcribes in 112 languages and supports multimodal input (voice, potentially more).
- **Strong Mission & Brand**: Positioned as "World's No.1 AI Note-taking Brand" with a clear philosophy around "Conversation as Intelligence."

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the user base**: Targeting 50 million professionals by 2030.
- **Enterprise & Healthcare Expansion**: HIPAA compliance and healthcare-specific messaging ("complete charts instantly") indicate a push into medical and enterprise verticals.
- **Global Office Build-out**: Establishing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across US, Asia, and Europe.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond transcription to become an "intelligence infrastructure" that captures, extracts, and utilizes all forms of human communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company's philosophy ("Amplify Human Intelligence") is central to its culture, and employees are likely working on a product that directly impacts how millions of professionals work.
- **Growth Stage**: Rapidly scaling from 2M to a target of 50M users, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing – suggests a distributed, cross-cultural work environment.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Working on the frontier of AI (LLMs, speech recognition, hardware-software integration) with a "Pursue SOTA" (State of the Art) value.
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Listed values include "Human First," "Act from first principles," "Dare to change," "Use AI to its fullest," and "Let others thrive."
- **Perks**: One-year warranty on hardware, lifetime customer support, and a focus on data security (ISO/SOC/HIPAA compliance) indicates a mature engineering and operations culture.

## Sources
1. [Plaud.ai - Homepage](https://www.plaud.ai/)
2. [Plaud.ai - About Us](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/about-us)
3. [Plaud.ai - Our Story](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/our-story)
4. [Plaud - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud)

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