Brand Designer

About Alfred

At Alfred, we're building a better way to experience where we live and work. Through technology, hospitality, and thoughtful service, we're creating more connected, convenient, and human-centered experiences.

We're a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team that values creativity, ownership, and the ability to turn great ideas into exceptional execution.

About the Role

We're looking for a creative, detail-oriented Brand Designer who knows how to turn information into compelling visual stories.

This is a hands-on, high-impact opportunity for someone who loves making presentations beautiful, polished, and persuasive. You'll support executive presentations, business development pitches, proposals, marketing materials, and brand assets while helping us maintain a consistent, high-quality visual identity.

You'll also help manage our creative request process, ensuring projects are prioritized, delivered on time, and aligned with our brand standards.

This is not a traditional graphic design role. The majority of your work will focus on presentations, with additional responsibilities across creative coordination, graphic design, and brand asset management.

All candidates will begin as contractors, with the potential to transition to full-time employment based on performance, business needs, and mutual fit.

How You'll Contribute to #OneTeam

Presentation & Deck Design (60%)

• Turn strategic content into executive presentations, pitches, proposals, and internal communications that emphasize key points, focus attention, and tell the brand’s story
• Transform complex, unstructured information and data into clear, compelling visual stories.
• Elevate existing presentations through thoughtful layouts and creative brand application typography, graphics, and visual storytelling, animation,
• Build reusable PowerPoint and Google Slides templates.
• Translate rough content, notes, and existing materials into polished, presentation-ready deliverables.
• Collaborate with executives and cross-functional teams on high-priority, deadline-driven projects.

Creative Request Management (20%)

• Manage incoming creative requests, including intake, stakeholder confirmation, prioritization, status updates, and delivery.
• Clarify project requirements, timelines, and expectations with stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external creative resources as needed.
• Maintain visibility into active projects and proactively communicate progress, blockers, and deadlines.
• Ensure creative requests are completed accurately, efficiently, and on time.

Graphic Design & Creative Production (10%)

• Design email graphics, social media content, presentation layouts, and visual elements for campaigns and pitches.
• Retouch imagery and build production-ready assets using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Canva, reformatting for web, print, and social.
• Produce original design concepts while keeping deliverables consistent with brand guidelines.
• Prepare and hand off files correctly for each output (color mode, resolution, bleed, export formats).

Brand Systems, Templates & Version Control (10%)

• Maintain and organize approved presentation templates, brand assets, and design resources.
• Ensure teams are using the most current brand materials.
• Establish clear file naming, version control, and asset management practices.
• Help improve creative workflows, templates, and design processes as the business grows.

What You'll Bring

• 2+ years of experience in digital design, preferably in agency or startup environments
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), with strong skills in Figma and Canva for collaborative and quick-turnaround designs
• Advanced knowledge of and proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Zoom, Canva, Iterable or a similar email automation platform, Instagram, and Lucidchart
• Have an eye for layout, color, typography, and photo art direction with a finger on the pulse of current design trends
• Hands-on experience creating and designing email marketing campaigns
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated problem solver who is self-managed to meet deadlines
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and close the loop, ensuring strong relationships and lines of communication
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational problem-solving skills, plus the ability to function within deadlines while working both independently and as part of a team
• Self-starter, motivated, and able to work with minimal oversight
• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment with flexibility in re-prioritizing tasks due to business demands
• Knowledge in HTML/CSS, UX/IU Design, Wireframes, After Effects, Sketch (not required but appreciated) 

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience supporting a company rebrand or implementing new brand standards.
• Experience developing executive, investor, or sales presentations.
• Experience building scalable presentation templates and brand libraries.
• Experience managing creative intake or project queues.
• Familiarity with real estate, property technology, hospitality, or professional services.
• Experience using AI-powered tools to accelerate creative production.

Why This Role Matters

Great ideas deserve great presentation.

Our teams are constantly developing new ideas, pitching opportunities, communicating strategy, and building relationships. Your work will help ensure those moments reflect the quality, creativity, and ambition of what we're building.

You'll have the opportunity to work closely with senior leaders, influence how our brand shows up, and build creative systems that help a growing business move faster without sacrificing quality.

Location, Availability & Compensation

This is a contract-to-full-time opportunity. All candidates will begin as contractors, with the potential to transition to full-time employment based on performance, business needs, and mutual agreement.

Location: New York City candidates are strongly preferred. For NYC-based contractors, the ability to collaborate in person at our office approximately two days per week is preferred. Remote candidates elsewhere in the United States will also be considered.

Availability: Candidates must be available for collaboration, meetings, and timely response to creative requests Monday through Friday, 9 AM–5 PM Eastern Time.

Contract Hourly Rates:

• New York City: $40–55/hour
• Outside New York City: $30–45/hour

Compensation within these ranges will depend on relevant experience, portfolio quality, skills, and geographic location.

Conversion to full-time employment is not guaranteed.

How to Apply

To be considered, your application must include:

• LinkedIn Profile: A link to your current LinkedIn profile.
• Design Portfolio: A link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work, particularly PowerPoint presentations, pitch decks, and branded marketing materials.

Applications missing either link will not be considered.

We're especially interested in seeing examples of how you've transformed complex information into clear, visually compelling presentations. Please highlight your presentation design experience in your portfolio.