About Castelion

Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We’re designing, building, and testing next generation long range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge and deter future conflicts.

Graphic Designer & Marketing Specialist

As a Graphic Designer & Marketing Specialist, you will own creative projects that advance Castelion’s marketing objectives. As a member of a small team, you will work closely with the marketing manager to produce high-quality branded content, both visual and physical.

This role will ask you to wear many hats: one day you may assist shooting photo/video of a rocket launch, the next you may be designing a company brand guide. Although video editing and graphic design are our biggest departmental needs, a willingness to learn new skills quickly while continually improving one’s craft is the most important ask in this role. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, a unique creative vision, and the willingness to learn some basic aerospace concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, business leaders, and company executives to produce compelling content for the company.
• Design print and web marketing collateral, including 3D renders, merch, memorabilia, websites, pitch decks, etc.
• Help the creative team shoot, edit and publish high-quality, compelling content of engine tests, rocket launches, manufacturing activities, and events.
• Assist with the maintenance of the company website.
• Help organize/coordinate events, including trade shows, networking and recruiting events.

Basic Qualifications

• The ability to juggle multiple projects at various stages of development, while delivering on deadline.
• The ability to learn quickly, grasp technical concepts, and a desire to lead creative projects.
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or another applicable creative field, OR 4+ years relevant experience in a design role
• A strong online portfolio
• Expertise in the following Adobe programs: Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign
• Experience in Wordpress

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in any of the following programs a plus: Figma, Affinity Designer, Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, Siemens NX, AutoCAD
• Experience in the aerospace industry a plus
• Photo & video production experience a plus

Additional Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time for marketing events, test campaigns, and program execution.

All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment as Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medial, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers three weeks of paid time off per year.

Leadership Qualities

Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.

High Commitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion’s mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company’s technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.

Clear Communicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.

ITAR Requirements:

· To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.