Principal Designer

We're hiring our first designer to lead the creation of compelling, high-impact visual assets across our brand and product ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of marketing, industrial design, and storytelling — and will shape how the world sees and experiences Neros, both digitally and physically.

You’ll own the full visual identity of the company: designing marketing materials, web content, campaign assets, and product renders, while also supporting industrial design efforts that bring our physical systems and ethos to life. This is a high-leverage, foundational role for someone who thrives in a startup environment and wants to leave a creative mark on a company with national impact.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Neros visual brand across digital, print, and physical media
• Design and maintain website assets, including landing pages, product visuals, and UI/UX elements in collaboration with engineering and marketing
• Create high-fidelity renders and animations of physical systems for use in marketing, fundraising, and customer engagements
• Develop marketing collateral such as pitch decks, one-pagers, brochures, and trade show assets
• Contribute to the industrial design of our aerial systems — including CMF (color, material, finish), form factor considerations, and brand integration
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to visualize prototypes and future concepts
• Build and manage a design toolkit, asset library, and guidelines to scale creative output across the company

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in graphic, brand, or industrial design roles, ideally at a startup or design-driven hardware company
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of design across digital and physical platforms
• Deep understanding of brand systems and storytelling through visual design
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools, including:
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects)
  • Figma or equivalent for UI/UX and web design
  • 3D rendering and modeling tools such as KeyShot, Blender, Cinema 4D, Rhino, or SolidWorks Visualize
  • Familiarity with CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, etc.) is a plus
• Experience designing for hardware products — understanding how visual identity carries into physical systems
• Exceptional attention to detail, visual polish, and creative thinking
• Comfortable working independently and setting design direction in a fast-paced, unstructured environment
• Bonus: motion design, photography, or video editing skills

Why Join Us

• Be the founding designer at a fast-growing, mission-driven company
• Work on products that matter for national security and industrial resilience
• Collaborate with an elite team of engineers, operators, and builders
• Influence the design culture from day one — your work will define how the world sees Neros
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits