At Ando, we’re rebuilding messaging software for a human-agent collaborative era. It’s not enough for it to just “work” or be at parity with Slack. Ando needs to “feel” like it’s working alongside you - it needs to be fast, beautiful, helpful, and predictive. Ando needs to be good enough for our users to want to spend hours of their days in for their working lives, and convince their friends to do the same.

We’re looking for a founding brand designer - you’ll help shape our visual language and work closely alongside our founder to execute on our creative vision.

What we're doing at Ando

• Teams are already building agents and using them across Slack, email, and other tools. But these platforms weren't designed for human-AI collaboration. The answer isn't a better Slack though; we're rethinking communications from the ground up to support better collaboration between humans and agents.

About our brand & visual identity

• Architecture is a form of art people are compelled to experience simply by living in a city. Slack and team messaging are similarly inevitable surfaces in our daily digital lives. Our goal is to build a digital platform where people feel at ease spending much of their day.

• This company is named after Tadao Ando, a Japanese architect known for blending brutalism with light and glass. His work also captures a sense of peaceful silence (something we hope to achieve and use to differentiate from Slack), and his buildings often house Turrells, Kusamas, and more. All of this inspires the visual elements of our platform: minimal, unobtrusive product design that lets us focus on the layers on top, such as the rhythm of messaging, sounds, etc.

What you’ll do

• Touch everything from motion to interaction to sound design. It’s not just pixels here…

• Redesign and expand upon our existing brand materials, e.g. logotype, palette

• Create delight in details

• Pay attention to colors & typography

• Choose and liaison with third party contractors where needed, find world class sound, shader, & illustration talent

• Go from generative, wide-ranging conversations with our founder to deep reference gathering, to execution

• Help drive the core narratives of our company and our users

• Work closely with our product designers

• Use Ando every day

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio - show instead of tell

• High degree of curiosity with new tooling, e.g. Claude Code, Paper, Unicorn, etc

• Bonus points for being an enthusiastic reference-gathering machine