Visual Designer

About Elayne

$3 trillion in wealth is transferred to the next generation each year, yet the process remains inefficient. Families often spend hundreds of hours, tens of thousands of dollars, and years to complete the transfer. Elayne aims to automate this process, providing software that simplifies the transition from one generation to the next.

We are backed by Y Combinator and Accel, and thousands of families already use Elayne to navigate one of the most challenging periods in their lives. As a company, we focus on creating a seamless experience for our users, from initial forms to final account transfers.

The Role

Elayne is hiring a Visual Designer to bring our product and brand to life across various visual touchpoints. This is a hands-on design role for a creative generalist who wants to shape the visual identity of a new category of family, legal, and financial software.

• Define how a new category should look, move, and feel across all static and dynamic content.
• Work across product visuals, website design, motion, marketing materials, print collateral, social assets, decks, and customer-facing education.
• Partner closely with the Lead Product Designer on in-product visuals, motion, and interactions.

What You’ll Build

• A product visual layer that feels clear and trustworthy: Design overlays, cards, empty states, onboarding graphics, icons, illustrations, diagrams, loading states, confirmation moments, and lightweight animations.
• Motion and storytelling that bring the product to life: Create short animations, product walkthroughs, web interactions, social clips, and storyboards that make complex workflows easier to grasp.
• A web presence that explains the product simply: Design website and landing page visuals that help families, partners, and customers quickly understand what Elayne does and why it matters.
• A library of materials the company can use every day: Design flyers, postcards, one-pagers, pitch deck visuals, customer PDFs, email graphics, social assets, event materials, and reusable templates so the team can move faster without redesigning from scratch.

Location and Expectations

This is a full-time role based in New York City. We are a small, high-trust team working in a complex, personal, and important category. We move quickly, communicate directly, and hold a high bar for the experience we deliver. The best work here comes from being close to the details, and we expect this person to use AI as leverage to explore directions faster and improve their work.

What You’ll Bring

• 2–5+ years of experience in brand, visual, web, motion, or digital design.
• A strong portfolio showing work across web, brand, marketing, and product-adjacent design.
• Excellent Figma skills and comfort moving quickly from rough concept to finished asset.
• Strong fundamentals in typography, layout, hierarchy, color, composition, and visual storytelling.
• Comfort designing marketing and print materials, from one-pagers and decks to event collateral.
• A strong attention to detail and the ability to keep work consistent across many surfaces.

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Familiarity with motion and graphics tools like After Effects, Jitter, Lottie, Rive, Illustrator, Photoshop, or Premiere.
• Experience with animation and video: product walkthroughs, short-form social clips, web interactions, or lightweight animated assets.
• Comfort designing for web experiences in Framer or Webflow.
• The ability to sketch, storyboard, or prototype ideas quickly before turning them into polished assets.
• Using AI as leverage, already using creative and productivity tools to move faster and improve their work.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $90k to $120k annually, plus equity. This range represents a good-faith estimate for this position at the time of posting. Final compensation will depend on your experience, portfolio, scope, and fit for the role.

Equal Opportunity

Elayne is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants based on ability, experience, and potential, and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law.