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We are building the platform that lets them do that, and optimize every conversation along the way.\nPhonely builds conversational voice AI agents for high volume phone workflows. Our customers use us to qualify leads, book appointments, route calls, and resolve real customer conversations in production. We are growing fast, and how we look has not kept pace with what we have built.\nAbout the Role\nVoice AI is the hardest category to make visible. What we sell is a conversation on a phone call, with nothing to screenshot. The category has settled for the same gradient and the same waveform. Whoever solves that sets its visual standard, and that is this job.\nYou are our first design hire, and you will own how Phonely looks everywhere: site, product, campaigns, sales and stage. You are not starting from a blank page and you are not inheriting a finished one: there is a logo set, a website direction in flight, and a standard for our published work. Your first call is what survives. Your first deliverable is the system that makes the answer repeatable.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn the identity: one direction, and the rules that hold it across every surface.\n\nBuild the design system: tokens, components and the templates that let the team stay on-brand without you in the room.\n\nBring the product onto the system: the app today runs more than one logo, palette and button style. You set the standard and work with the frontend engineers until every customer-facing screen matches it.\n\nMake the invisible legible: turn call flows, funnels and agent behavior into visuals a buyer understands at a glance.\n\nShip the marketing site: landing, comparison and vertical pages, built live, forms wired and tested.\n\nCarry the launches: campaign systems, product marketing collateral, competitive material, customer stories and conference presence. The first customer story is written and waiting on you.\n\nSet the standard for executive communication: the formats the founders take to customers, investors and the stage.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n5+ years designing brand systems and the marketing surfaces built on them, with a portfolio that shows range and a point of view.\n\nA brand system you wrote the rules for, not only a logo you drew. We will ask to see the document.\n\nCommand of typography, layout, hierarchy and color, across web, presentation and print.\n\nYou ship to production, not to a handoff. 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