Work that has to earn its keep.
Align is eight people between Ho Chi Minh City and the US East Coast, building branding, websites, SEO and GEO for clients in twenty-odd industries. Small enough that what you make goes out with your name on it, and nobody is three layers away from the client.
How we work
Eight people, four practices, one room.
- A small team, so the work is not handed down a chain. You talk to the client, you make the thing, you watch how it performs after launch.
- English is the common language. Meetings, documentation and the day to day writing all happen in it, because half the clients are not in Vietnam.
- Four practices under one roof: branding, UX/UI websites, SEO and GEO. Nobody spends a whole year in one lane, and the developers sit close enough to the designers to argue with them.
- Work gets measured after it ships. A launch is the middle of the job, not the end of it, and the numbers come back whether we like them or not.
- Clients across time zones, which means some overlap with other mornings and a real effort not to turn that into your whole evening.
What we look for
Taste you can explain, and work you finished.
- Taste you can explain. We will ask why, and “it looks better” is the beginning of an answer rather than the end of one.
- Finishing. A clever idea at ninety percent is worth less to us than a plain one that shipped and held up.
- Writing. Most of this job is explaining a decision to somebody who was not in the room when it was made.
- Curiosity about the part you are not paid for: designers who read the markup, developers who notice the kerning, writers who read the analytics.
Open roles
What we are hiring for.
Nothing is open right now. We still read everything that arrives and keep what is good on file, so a letter sent today is not wasted on a month with no vacancy.
How to apply
Write to business@align.vn.
- Put the role in the subject line, or “Open application” if nothing above fits what you do.
- Send three to five things you made, with a paragraph on each: what the problem was, what you decided, what happened afterwards. That paragraph tells us more than the portfolio does.
- A CV is fine and it is the least interesting part of the email. Student and internship applications are read the same way as the rest.
- If the work is under NDA, describe it. We would rather read an honest account of something we cannot see than a tidy case study of something that was never hard.