PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess/MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all sizes.
PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher.
We're looking for a Brand Designer to help shape and evolve the visual identity of PlanetScale across all touchpoints. In this role, you'll be a key member of our Marketing team, translating complex technical concepts into compelling visual stories that resonate with developers and technical decision-makers. You'll craft everything from in-person event experiences to web graphics, merch designs, and creative website assets that make databases feel exciting.
What's the job to be done?Visual Brand Development
- Design web graphics including technical diagrams, illustrations, and interactive visual assets that simplify complex database concepts.
- Create compelling visual systems for campaigns, product launches, and marketing initiatives.
- Design for multiple formats and contexts: digital, print, experiential, and merchandise.
In-Person Experiences
- Design booth graphics, signage, and environmental branding for conferences, meetups, and community events.
- Collaborate with the events team to create memorable, on-brand experiences that stand out
- Design merch that developers actually want to wear and use.
- Create branded collateral including banners, posters, stickers, and promotional materials.
Website and Digital Assets
- Design creative website components and landing pages.
- Design data visualizations and technical diagrams that make complex information accessible.
- Create social media graphics, blog post imagery, and other digital marketing assets.
- Develop templates and design systems that enable the team to move quickly.
Brand Evolution
- Collaborate with marketing leadership to evolve and expand the PlanetScale brand identity.
- Explore new visual directions while maintaining brand coherence.
- Document design decisions and maintain brand guidelines.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating versatile design skills across digital, print, and experiential design.
- Deep understanding of design fundamentals: typography, color, composition, and visual hierarchy.
- You've figured out where AI actually helps in a design workflow and built process around it.
- Comfortable working in both brand and production modes. You can think big picture and execute in the details.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to both articulate design decisions and understand direction.
- Self-directed and able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines.
- Collaborative spirit with the ability to incorporate feedback while maintaining creative vision.
- Experience designing for technical or developer-focused brands.
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other design tools.
- Comfortable using AI to build a working first draft of a page rather than handing off a static mockup.
- Understanding of design systems and component-based thinking.
- Enthusiasm for learning about databases, infrastructure, and developer tools.
We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale—and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Brand Designer, you'll help shape how developers and engineering leaders perceive and interact with PlanetScale, translating the power of our platform into visual experiences that inspire and inform. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.
If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Total Compensation and Pay TransparencyAn employee's total compensation consists of base salary + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.
Base salary range: $170,000 - $220,000 USD
Skills Required
- Strong portfolio demonstrating versatile design skills across digital, print, and experiential design
- Deep understanding of typography, color, composition, and visual hierarchy
- Ability to use AI effectively within a design workflow
- Ability to work in both brand and production modes
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate design decisions and understand direction
- Self-directed ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
- Collaborative approach and ability to incorporate feedback while maintaining creative vision
- Experience designing for technical or developer-focused brands
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other design tools
- Comfort using AI to build an initial page draft rather than only delivering static mockups
- Understanding of design systems and component-based thinking
- Enthusiasm for learning about databases, infrastructure, and developer tools
What We Do
Our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed. PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases at companies like Slack, block, Etsy, intercom, Cursor, MyFitnessPal, and Barstool Sports. Our Offerings Vitess allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through explicit sharding — enabling a shared nothing architecture distributing data across thousands of nodes, all routed through a single database connection. PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5 per month and gives you a fully managed PostgreSQL cluster built for performance and reliability, offering first-class tooling without sacrificing developer experience. Available in AWS and GCP. High availability clusters deliver automatic failover across three availability zones. Neki is our next-generation Postgres sharding architecture inspired by everything we have learned building Vitess: a fresh design from first principles to bring massive scale and reliability to PostgreSQL workloads.
Why Work With Us
Our philosophy is to attract the best talent and to support them doing amazing things where they are the most comfortable and productive. We have a highly distributed, remote forward team with employees across the United States and the globe.
