Head of Brand Experience

Shadow Phantom turns security blind spots into owned fixes across cloud and hybrid environments. It detects what's actually exposed, assigns ownership, enables safe remediation, and keeps proof by default.

The Head of Brand Experience will lead creative strategy, storytelling, and brand development for Shadow Phantom, a cybersecurity company, to build an iconic global brand identity. This remote role involves elevating the company's visual and emotional impact through video production, social media narratives, and collaborative design efforts.

Job Description

Head of Brand Experience

Overview

Creative Leadership Brand & Experience Equity-Based (Pre-Seed) Remote

About Shadow Phantom

Shadow Phantom is redefining cybersecurity through AI-native, zero-trust protection that detects and automatically remediates misconfigurations, exposed assets, access drift and leaked credentials across cloud, code and infrastructure. Our brand already carries momentum, we’ve built a strong identity, a dark-neon visual language, a cohesive narrative for investors and a growing digital presence that’s attracting attention from both security leaders and creative professionals. Now, we’re ready to scale our storytelling globally and make Shadow Phantom a category-defining brand.

Current Foundation

• Established name, visual direction and positioning pillars focused on trust and innovation
• Live public website, investor deck suite and early social presence across LinkedIn and X
• Core brand system: typography, logo, color palette and visual identity library
• Increasing traction through early content, motion design, storytelling and ecosystem visibility

The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Brand Experience to elevate Shadow Phantom’s creative and emotional impact, shaping how the world experiences our story, our technology and our mission.

Mission

• Transform Shadow Phantom from a high-potential cybersecurity company into an iconic movement that inspires trust, intelligence and invisible protection
• Strengthen the external brand (awareness, credibility, emotional connection) and internal brand (alignment, purpose, shared voice)

What You Will Do

• Lead the creative strategy across video, design, storytelling and brand experience
• Create cinematic, emotionally powerful videos that bring our vision and technology to life
• Drive social storytelling across LinkedIn, YouTube and emerging channels to grow awareness
• Evolve and scale our brand system (motion, typography, color, tone, sound)
• Translate complex product ideas into simple, inspiring narratives alongside engineering and product teams
• Design launch moments and marketing campaigns that make each release an event
• Build a repeatable storytelling engine for social, founder content and community engagement
• Measure engagement, sentiment and reach to continuously refine direction
• Represent Shadow Phantom in major design, startup and creative competitions

Success Looks Like

• A world-class brand identity and experience that clearly differentiates us from Wiz, Orca Security and Aqua Security
• Cohesive storytelling across the website, campaigns and investor materials that resonate emotionally and professionally
• Tangible growth in social presence, engagement and brand authority
• A unified internal culture where every team member embodies the brand’s voice and values

What You Bring

• Proven experience in brand storytelling, creative direction or experience design (preferably in tech, AI or cybersecurity)
• Expertise in video production, motion graphics or visual storytelling
• Deep understanding of social media narratives and growth mechanics (LinkedIn, YouTube, X)
• Strong aesthetic judgment with a cinematic eye for pacing, composition and emotion
• Collaborative mindset with founders and engineers; thrives in a creative, high-energy team
• Proficiency in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, CapCut, Runway, Pika or similar tools

Ways of Working & Resources

• Lean but impactful setup with existing assets, design system and media library
• Post-funding budget for premium design, video and web collaborations
• Smart scaling strategy: freelancers first, then a focused creative team

Why Join

• Shape the visual and emotional identity of a fast-emerging cybersecurity brand
• Build on strong foundations and take us from promising to unforgettable
• Real ownership: equity pre-funding, salary post-funding
• Global reach, remote-first collaboration and creative freedom

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive project su