Visual Designer

The role: Music hands a designer unusually rich material: sound, notation, practice, performance, the relationship between a teacher and a student. You'll decide how all of it looks and feels, everywhere Tonic appears: the app, the web, the brand, the campaigns, the moments partners put their names next to. This is a senior role with founding-team scope. You'll set the visual bar and build the system that holds it, make the calls that become the company's taste, and work directly with the founders. The category is weeks old and its visual language is unclaimed. You claim it. Shape the productOwn new surfaces end to end, from the practice tools students live in to the page a shared lesson lands on (which is also where many people meet Tonic first) Solve the central design problem: a lesson is an hour of sound and feeling, and you decide what it looks like when it becomes an object on a screen Build the brandCarry one identity across the site, campaigns, and artist and institution moments, and keep it whole under pressure Art-direct the assets teachers and collaborators put their reputations next to Set the systemGrow a design system that makes each new surface cheaper to build and impossible to make ugly Raise the bar for everyone: critique, standards, and the taste calls nobody else can make The first six monthsCore product surfaces share one coherent visual language A design system in place that makes new surfaces faster to build Brand consistent across the site, campaigns, and partner moments Leading visual decisions across the company: critique, standards, direction Who thrives here 5+ years designing digital products, with a portfolio showing range at shipping speed: product UI and brand, sketch to screen Has set visual direction somewhere real and held it as the company grew Systems thinking; stronger taste. Comfortable being the bar Uses modern AI tools as a force multiplier without letting them flatten the work

Bonus: you play an instrument, or wish you still did The teamWe're a lean team of experienced engineers, music experts, and lifelong learners, with a track record of building products loved by billions of people around the world. Proud alumni of Google, YouTube, Disney, Twitter, and of Princeton, Penn, Carnegie Mellon. We work together with an uncanny efficiency. We play together with a whole lot of joy.