Principal Designer
Apply NowCompany: Neros Technologies
Location: El Segundo, CA 90245
Description:
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
Qualifications
Why Join Us
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