Designer

The role

The Designer will own the visual identity of Menlo across the website, communications, and brand assets. This role involves shaping the brand system and designing marketing pages, social assets, and technical collateral.

What you will do

• Own the visual design of menlo.ai and its surfaces including marketing, launch, careers, and shop pages
• Work with engineering to ship designs to production
• Design communications assets including social posts, announcement art, research graphics, and video thumbnails
• Design event and IRL collateral
• Build and maintain the Menlo brand system including typography, color, and reusable components
• Keep Menlo and Asimov visually consistent across website, docs, community channels, and partner materials
• Design decks, one-pagers, and collateral for sales, partnerships, and hiring
• Design for the build in public motion across Discord, the forum, streams, and community moments
• Turn rough ideas into finished work quickly

Required qualifications

• Strong portfolio spanning brand, web, and communications design
• Real range from setting up brand systems to designing marketing sites and social assets
• Comfort owning brand at an early company
• Fluency in Figma
• Sharp eye for layout, type, and detail
• Web design sensibility including responsive thinking and collaboration with engineers
• Taste for a technical, developer-facing aesthetic
• Self-direction and speed with a bias for shipping
• Intellectual curiosity and excitement to use AI as a collaborator

Nice to have

• Front-end skills such as HTML, CSS, Tailwind, or React and Next.js
• Motion design or video editing
• Illustration or 3D skills, such as Blender
• Photography or art direction
• Experience at a hardware, robotics, developer tools, or open source brand

About the company

Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it.