[Hiring] Design Lead @SkyPilot

Role Description

We're looking for a Design Lead to own design at SkyPilot: the website, launches, social, decks, events, and the product. The role is brand-first and hands-on. You'll spend most of your time making the work — building the visual identity, designing and shipping the web presence, and figuring out how to make a deeply technical product legible to the engineers who use it. You'll also set the bar for design company-wide, product included, and hire as we grow.

We expect a strong background in brand design, and enough product judgment to review product work credibly.

• Own the brand: the visual identity and the system behind it, and every surface it shows up on — website, launches, campaigns, social, decks, docs, events, swag.
• Lead concept and execution: this is a making role. You'll design it, build it, and ship it — concept through production.
• Make the technical story visual: architecture diagrams, product explainers, launch illustrations. You get to define how a whole new category in AI infrastructure looks.
• Lead design across the company: set the bar, run critique, keep product and brand coherent, and hire as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in design, preferably for deeply technical products such as dev tools, AI or infrastructure.
• A portfolio with exceptional taste in craft, type and color.
• Deep brand and web craft, and the ability to build what you design using AI tooling where it helps.
• Strong product design judgment to critique product work credibly and lift its quality.
• Fluency with technical subject matter. You can learn how a system works and design something that explains it clearly.
• Opinions about craft and restraint, the ability to argue for them and take feedback well.
• You drive work to completion and raise the bar for the people around you.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership.
• A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley (lineage: Databricks, Anyscale).
• Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work.

Location

San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.