Lead Designer

Amca is building airplanes for the 21st century, starting by designing new hardware that flies on today’s planes. Aviation was once humanity’s boldest ambition, but the industry hasn’t successfully built a new commercial plane in 40 years. We believe this truth is inextricably linked to modern aviation’s uninspired aesthetics, and that good, original design immerses people—employees, customers, partners—in a believable vision for the future, which the industry has been missing for decades. This is why for us, design is not a luxury or afterthought. It is a core input to all of the work we do, from M&A to sales and recruiting.

Overview

As our Lead Designer, you will be responsible for continually bringing our aesthetic vision to life across every imaginable medium, using and building on a new brand system currently under development with our friends at Day Job.

Responsibilities

While the work is ever-changing, you’ll help us with things like:

• Conceptualizing and designing maximalist posters that capture the Amca ethos for display in our multiple offices and factories

• Designing poster-like slide decks for customers with a degree of personalization that almost feels unbelievable

• Creating merch for our brands that captures the essence of their respective cultures, which have been built over many decades

• Creating custom marketing collateral for each of our flagship brands: physical brochures, physical objects, packing materials

• Creating original trade show booths that stand out in a sea of grey polyester cloth
  

You’re probably a good fit for this role if:

• You are an excellent graphic designer (as a baseline)

• You feel like more designers need to play with the medium in which they express their ideas, rather than constraining themselves to just one

• You believe you cannot separate aesthetics from function

• You know what MSCHF is and they inspire you

• You see design as the art of shaping experience in totality, rather than simply creating visual assets

• You’re comfortable with campaign conceptualization, not just design itself

• You’re comfortable operationalizing your ideas (sourcing suppliers, external partners) when they require additional help

• You can work with time pressure, and make thoughtful trade-offs to meet external deadlines
  

You get bonus points if:

• You can spin up webpages yourself without the help of a web developer, whether because you can code yourself or because you’re good at using AI/low-code tools

• You can design 3D physical objects in AutoCAD
  

This role is in-person in our new, Charlap Hyman & Herrero designed office and factory in El Segundo, in the heart of Southern California’s aviation industry.

Come help us breathe new life into an industry that used to represent humanity’s boldest ambitions. We need your help!

For a little more on this role, see here.

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