Design Director

About This Role

We’re looking for a Design Director to become the visual force multiplier for Storyline, and leader of our internal creative systems.

This role sits at the intersection of:

• Design
• Storytelling
• Brand systems
• Executive communications
• AI-assisted creative workflows

You’ll work directly with our C-suite to shape how Storyline presents itself—to investors, prospects, partners, and the market.

Some days that means building a world-class pitch deck.

Other days it means creating demo assets for a client episode, defining a scalable Canva system, refining social templates in Figma, or using AI tools to generate and iterate creative concepts.

This is not a pure marketing role and not a traditional agency creative role. You’ll create systems that allow great design to happen repeatedly.

What You’ll Do

Executive Storytelling

• Design investor decks, executive presentations, and sales materials
• Build visual narratives that make complex ideas easy to understand
• Create reusable presentation frameworks and visual systems using PowerPoint and Canva

Creative Systems

• Build and maintain scalable template systems across Figma and Canva
• Define asset libraries, style guides, and design standards
• Create social and marketing systems that scale

Demo & Asset Production

• Create icons, graphics, imagery, and visual treatments
• Source and refine assets for Storyline demo episodes
• Collaborate on concept development and visual storytelling*

AI-Assisted Design

• Use Claude and adjacent AI tools as part of daily creative workflows
• Develop repeatable processes for asset generation and refinement
• Help shape how AI becomes part of Storyline’s design operation

Motion & Media (Preferred)

• Create lightweight motion graphics and video polish
• Work in After Effects or equivalent tools
• Support content creation where movement improves communication

What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)###

**Storyline’s decks and presentations feel world-class and instantly recognizable

• Figma and Canva systems reduce repeated design work
• Demo episode quality materially improves
• Visual identity becomes more consistent across channels
• AI-assisted workflows meaningfully compress creative turnaround time

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 5+ years in visual design, brand systems, creative operations, or equivalent
• Exceptional presentation design skills (PowerPoint and Canva)
• Strong command of Figma

Strong Signals

• Motion graphics / After Effects
• Video editing
• AI-assisted creative workflows
• Experience at startups or high-growth companies
• Illustration or icon systems
• Portfolio demonstrating both craft and systems thinking

Who You Are

• You have excellent taste and know how to explain your decisions
• You move quickly without lowering standards
• You think in systems, not individual files
• You’re excited by AI as a creative multiplier
• You enjoy turning ambiguity into clarity

Compensation & Details ###

• Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Remote-friendly, with preference for candidates near Los Angeles or Chicago for periodic in-person collaboration
• Small, highly technical team where decisions happen fast and impact is immediate

About Storyline

Storyline is an AI startup with institutional backing, building a new way to deliver data through video.
We generate dynamic, personalized video experiences powered by AI—but our output isn’t just an MP4. We combine SVG, motion graphics, avatars, narration, and data visualization into experiences that look and feel like broadcast-quality video, built entirely from code, media assets, and JSON.

This is a fundamentally different way of creating video—one that’s dynamic, programmable, and personalized at scale.
We’re bringing this patent-pending technology to financial services first (already working with major institutions), and then far beyond.

We’re a small team building something genuinely new. There’s no playbook for what we’re doing—and that’s the point.