Visual Designer (0-3 Years)
HSR Layout, Bengaluru
We're looking for a designer with real taste to own how Ambitio looks and feels, and to use AI to make great design happen faster than anyone thought possible.
About Ambitio
Ambitio is India's first AI-powered global admissions platform. We help students get into their dream universities by combining personalized AI guidance with mentorship from alumni of those schools.
We're founded by IIT BHU alumni who went through the admissions grind themselves. 100,000+ students have used Ambitio, with admits to Stanford, Oxford, NYU, Cornell, Columbia and more. We're backed by BLinC Invest, First Cheque and We Founder Circle.
The role
You'll own Ambitio's visual and brand language. That means deciding how we look across every touchpoint, from a social post to a hiring banner to a product screen, and making sure it all feels like one brand.
You'll work with every team: product designers, motion designers, marketing, HR and the founders.
This is a creative role first. We want you spending your time on ideas: new campaigns, new visuals, new ways for Ambitio to show up. The grunt work (resizing, reformatting, the fifteenth version of the same banner) gets handled with AI, which is why knowing your way around AI tools is a must.
What you'll do
Shape the brand. Define and evolve Ambitio's visual system: type, color, illustration style, imagery and layout rules, so everything we put out looks like it came from one place.
Design across the company. Social posts and ads, campaign creatives, HR and hiring banners, event visuals, presentations, and website and landing page graphics.
Build AI-powered creative workflows. Set up templates and pipelines with tools like Claude, image generation models and automation, so repeatable work like HR banners and social ads gets made fast and stays on brand.
Work with product and motion. Partner with product designers on UI visuals, icons and illustrations, and with motion designers on assets and visual direction.
Bring ideas, not just execution. Pitch concepts, try new formats, and push our visual quality higher every month.
What we're looking for
Taste. You can explain why something looks good, and your work proves it.
Strong fundamentals. Typography, color, layout, composition and hierarchy come naturally to you.
Fluency with AI tools. You use Claude or ChatGPT, image generation tools (Midjourney, Firefly, Ideogram, Krea or similar) daily, and you're curious about building workflows, not just writing prompts.
Comfort in Figma and Adobe. Figma for most work, Photoshop and Illustrator when needed.
A portfolio with a point of view. A few pieces that are clearly yours matter more than a long list of client work.
Ownership. You take a vague ask, figure out what's needed, and ship it.
Big plus
You're an illustrator or artist. Drawing, painting, digital illustration, 3D, or any personal art practice. This is the one we care about most.
UI skills. You can design screens, components and product visuals in Figma.
Motion. After Effects, Rive, Jitter or similar.
You've automated design work before. Figma plugins, templates, n8n or Zapier, or a bit of scripting.
What we offer
Creative freedom. Room to experiment, try new styles and build things with us, not just fill in templates.
Real impact. Your work goes live fast and reaches 100,000+ students.
Every AI tool you need. We'll cover the subscriptions.
Growth as a designer. Work alongside product and motion designers, with direct feedback from our design lead and founders.
Competitive compensation based on your skill and experience.
Before you apply
The form is short on purpose. We'd rather see your best work and a few honest answers than long essays.
Use AI as much as you like in your design work. For the written answers, we want to hear from you, not a chatbot.
Kindly mention N/A if you are a fresher or someone with just internship experience.
Links to your 2 or 3 strongest pieces. For each, tell us in a line or two what the brief was and what your part was.
Something you made because you wanted to, not because someone asked: art, an illustration, a personal project, an experiment. Link it and tell us what sparked it.
Tell us what each one gets right. Be specific: "clean and minimal" doesn't count.
Films, music, fashion, architecture, games, anything.
Tell us which tools you use, and walk us through one thing you made or one process you sped up with them. Links or screenshots welcome.
Share links if you do. Skip this if not.
Spend some time going through Ambitio (our website, Instagram and LinkedIn). Then make a Pinterest board of the vibe you think Ambitio's ads, social media posts and future banners could have. Pull inspiration from anywhere. Share the public link, and in 3 or 4 lines, explain the vibe you're going for.
Tell us who you are, what you love making, and what design means to you. No need to be polished, we just want to meet you.
Anything the form didn't ask that you think we should see.