turbopuffer is looking for our first-in-role designer. Design is already central to who we are. We’re an infrastructure company that takes the work seriously, but not ourselves too seriously. Your job is to carry that mix of hardcore and whimsical through every surface we ship, making turbopuffer unmistakable everywhere we show up.
You’ll report to the CEO and work across brand, web, product, and marketing. You might specialize in one of those areas and want to stretch into the others. You might be the rare person who already moves between all of them.
what you’ll do:
own design across our most important surfaces: product, web, blog, IRL, campaigns, etc.
partner with GTM and growth to make sure 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 down to blur the lines between ideas, design, and final ship
technical fluency – your idea of design review is 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 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
tpuf 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
Skills Required
- Crafting usable, polished designs
- Range in brand, product, web, or marketing
- Ability to work across various design disciplines
- Technical fluency with Tailwind CSS
- Independence in shipping projects
What We Do
turbopuffer is a serverless search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage. It is designed to make large amounts of data searchable for AI applications, offering high scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency by separating compute and storage. It serves as a critical infrastructure layer for companies needing to retrieve context for AI models, handling billions of documents with low latency.
