Designer - Turbopuffer

Turbopuffer is seeking its first-in-role Designer to lead design efforts. Design is central to our identity as an infrastructure company that balances serious work with a whimsical approach. You will embody this mix across all surfaces we ship, making Turbopuffer unmistakable.

Reporting to the CEO, you will work across product, brand, web, and marketing. We welcome specialists looking to broaden their scope or individuals already proficient across all these areas.

What You'll Do

• Own design across our most important surfaces: product, web, blog, IRL, campaigns, etc.
• Work closely with our product engineers to build and evolve how our customers interact with Turbopuffer.
• Partner with GTM and growth teams to ensure every customer, candidate, and community-facing surface meets the Turbopuffer craft bar.
• Evolve our visual identity without sanding off what makes it Turbopuffer.

Must Have

• Craft: Your work is useful, polished, and specific.
• Range: You have a clear spike in brand, product, web, marketing, or design engineering, and enough curiosity to cross the others.
• Scrappy: You are willing to blur the lines between ideas, design, and final ship.
• Technical Fluency: Your idea of design review involves tweaking Tailwind classes.
• Independent: You can get things shipped, even if it means jumping in with Claude Code.

Nice to Have

• You understand developer product branding.
• You have worked across brand and product at a small, fast-moving company.
• You've led people or teams and worked directly with founders.
• You know the sweet spot between hardcore and whimsical.

You Might Not Be a Fit If

• You think one-off marketing assets are beneath you.
• You have never touched Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• You prefer handing off mocks to getting things into production.

Turbopuffer Values

Turbopuffer is hardcore & whimsical. We value:

• Overstep > Understep
• Show > Tell
• Complexity is earned
• Showing up as part of our customer’s team
• Making stuff easy to react to