HackerTrail Hiring! Full Time Designer in - Ricebowl

• Own the visual design of Menlo's web surfaces, including marketing and launch pages, careers content, shop experiences, and other company-facing pages.
• Work closely with engineering to take web designs through to production.
• Create communications assets for launches, including social content, announcement artwork, research graphics, video thumbnails, event materials, and physical collateral.
• Build and maintain a consistent brand system covering typography, visual language, reusable components, and templates.
• Keep Menlo and Asimov visually consistent across the website, documentation, community channels, and partner-facing materials.
• Design decks, one-pagers, and supporting collateral for partnerships, sales, hiring, and company communications.
• Help shape the visual side of Menlo's build-in-public approach across community spaces, streams, forums, and other channels.
• Turn rough ideas into polished work quickly, including when timelines are tied to launches or announcements.

What They Are Looking For

• Experience moving from brand systems and visual identity through to marketing websites and campaign or social assets.
• Confidence owning and evolving a brand in an early-stage or fast-moving environment.
• Strong Figma skills with excellent judgment around layout, typography, hierarchy, and visual detail.
• Solid web design fundamentals, including responsive thinking and effective collaboration or handoff with engineers.
• A clean, confident design sensibility suited to technical and developer-facing audiences.
• Strong self-direction, speed, and a bias toward shipping polished work.

• HTML, CSS, Tailwind, React, or Next.js knowledge sufficient to implement or contribute directly to web experiences.
• Motion design or video editing.
• Illustration, 3D design, or Blender experience, particularly for robotics or hardware-related work.
• Photography or art direction.
• Previous design work for hardware, robotics, developer tools, open-source projects, or technical products.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity participation.
• Equipment stipend to support an effective working setup.
• Travel opportunities connected to the work.
• Dedicated learning and skills development budget.
• Generous leave and parental leave.
• Support for software subscriptions and AI infrastructure or credits.
• Budget for language and presentation skills development.

Required

Nice to have