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Brand Designer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Singapore
Experience
3 years
Job description
Designs Ahrefs' offline brand presence, including conference stands, event materials, and printed publications, from concept through print-ready production. The role sits with marketing and events teams and involves direct work with printers and production contractors.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Singapore
What you'll do
- Develop the concept and visual layout for conference booths, from the first idea to a design a contractor can build
- Design event materials: banners, backdrops, wall panels, signage, registration desks, and everything else that makes an event space look like Ahrefs
- Design and lay out brochures, booklets, catalogs, books, magazines and other multi-page pieces
- Develop visual concepts and adapt the brand identity so it works on a 6-metre wall and a business card alike
- Prepare print-ready files and work directly with printing companies and contractors until it's made right
- Manage several projects at once, usually a stand, a booklet and a batch of signage at the same time
What we're looking for
- Fluent in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, and comfortable in Figma
- Knows print production properly: prepress, bleed and colour, paper and materials, and what a printer needs
- Has designed for events or exhibitions, and multi-page publications, and can show it
- Sweats the details and owns the final result
- Works independently and keeps several projects moving without someone chasing them
- Uses AI tools in daily work, for technical tasks and to speed up workflow
- Portfolio required, showing conference and exhibition stand design, event branding and visual materials, and brochures, catalogs, books and other multi-page publications
Nice to have
- Blender or other 3D visualisation software (not required; clear 2D layouts and mockups are fine)
Benefits
- Bootstrapped and profitable for fifteen years, with no investors and no board
- Real ownership without micromanaging
- Small, low-ego team
- Work seen by thousands of people at every event
How to get hired
- 1Portfolio review
- 2Short paid test assignment: design one leaflet or one visual concept for a conference stand
- 3Interviews with the team
Apply
About Ahrefs
Ahrefs helps marketers get their brands found online, in search, in AI answers and on social. The company has been bootstrapped and profitable for fifteen years, with no investors and no board.
Key facts
- Bootstrapped and profitable for fifteen years
- No investors and no board
- Hosts conferences and events such as Ahrefs Evolve
- Does not engage with agencies or third-party recruitment providers for the roles it hires for
What they value
- Honesty
- Results
- Simple solutions over complicated ones
- Real ownership