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GRAPHIC DESIGNER (STARLINK)
As a Graphic Designer on the Starlink design team, you’ll own the complete customer packaging experience, crafting everything from the box and external-facing visuals to the unboxing journey and clear installation instructions. You’ll play a key role in building on Starlink’s brand story externally, creating compelling visuals that support retail, marketing, and direct customer touchpoints while delivering an on-brand experiences.
This role demands a sharp eye for detail, flawless execution, and the creativity to transform complex technology into intuitive, visually engaging communications that resonate with users worldwide.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Sketch, storyboard, and ideate impactful concepts for physical packaging, print collateral, and user-facing graphics
- Translate cutting-edge technology into simple, intuitive instructions and clear visual communications
- Design and implement regulatory, legal, compliance graphics to meet product requirements with precision
- Support A/B testing for the unboxing experience and installation guides, rapidly iterating based on feedback
- Strengthen and elevate Starlink’s customer-facing brand identity through compelling visuals, storytelling, and cohesive design execution
- Deliver flawless production-ready assets for high-volume printing, working efficiently with vendors to ensure quality and on-time delivery
- Outstanding verbal and visual communication skills, able to clearly articulate and present complex design concepts to engineers, and leadership
- Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly integrated team environment with daily cross-functional collaboration
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, marketing, communications, art, web design, or advertising
- 1+ years of professional design experience in illustration, graphic design, or print production
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- 2+ years of professional graphic design experience, ideally within a creative agency or consumer tech environment focused on digital products and packaging
- Mastery of industry-standard 2D tools including Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma
- Experience with 3D visualization tools such as Blender, KeyShot, or equivalent
- Strong expertise in layout, color theory, typography, and visual systems to art-direct and produce compelling digital and physical assets
- Proven experience preparing production-ready files, understanding printer specifications, and successfully managing external print vendors
- Skilled at creating clean 2D assets, iconography, motion graphics, animation, and dynamic interactions that enhance user experience
- Advanced capabilities in image optimization, retouching, manipulation, and precise color correction
- Deep knowledge of digital production standards to deliver pixel-perfect, on-brand assets for both web/apps and high-volume physical print
- Exceptional visual and conceptual skills with the ability to solve complex problems and develop fresh, innovative design solutions
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong visual portfolio is mandatory for consideration
- This is not a remote or hybrid position and will require relocation if not already local to the Austin, TX area
- Position occasionally requires the ability to work extended hours, weekends and offsite when needed
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, marketing, communications, art, web design, or advertising
- 1+ years of professional design experience in illustration, graphic design, or print production
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with on-site clinics and health resources at major sites. This breadth of coverage is presented as a strong element of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Major locations feature on-site amenities such as fitness facilities, food/coffee, clinics, and other conveniences. These lifestyle perks enhance day-to-day value alongside cash and equity.
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What We Do
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
