Design Lead

About SkyPilot

[SkyPilot](https://skypilot.ai/) accelerates the world's most ambitious AI teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute across clusters into one optimized, highly available and easy-to-use pool: a single AI supercomputer.

SkyPilot (10k+ GitHub stars, 18M+ downloads) manages the GPU fleets of 100s of companies, from Fortune 500s to top AI-natives like Abridge, Applied Compute, Mistral, Unconventional AI, H Company, and Nubank, with usage growing exponentially. Born in the UC Berkeley lab behind Spark and Databricks, our growing team includes top-tier talent from Databricks, Google, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, and Cornell. To date, SkyPilot has raised over $20M in seed funding from top investors (incl. Lux, Coatue, Amplify) and operators (incl. Ali Ghodsi, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Aaron Levie).

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The role

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.

What you'll do

• 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.

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What we're looking for

• 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.

What we offer

• 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.
• Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work.

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