At Airplane, we’re building better infrastructure for internal tools. We believe that every company will become a software company, and behind the scenes these businesses are powered by humans and an ever-growing collection of tools. We provide building blocks for engineering teams to rapidly develop best-in-class tools.

We’re a small team; we have offices in SF and NYC and favor asynchronous collaboration. We move fast, build high quality systems, and don’t take ourselves too seriously. 😊

About the role

We’re hiring the third product designer to join the design team at Airplane. As an early member of a small design team, the scope of this role will flex the entire Airplane product ecosystem, and will play a critical role in defining the product design direction of Airplane. At Airplane, we put engineers and designers directly on business problems, and you’ll be working with a small team on end-to-end product design, roadmapping and delivery. Expect your nature of design work to be "full-stack" - you’re comfortable doing whatever it takes to build a stellar product, from conceptualizing to shipping to scaling it.

Some design themes you can expect to work on:

• Up-leveling the developer experience and tools — developer being the persona that builds with Airplane. This can manifest in the form of novel developer tools and interfaces that supercharge specific workflows, software abstractions that enable new ways of building, or platform capabilities that unlock new functional building blocks.

• Designing for operator excellence — operator being the persona that uses the internal tools built via Airplane. This entails defining what operator excellence means, and designing the core "operating system" and the future standards of how work gets done in business software.

• Figuring out what the next big thing is for Airplane ✨

What we’re looking for:

• Passion for computational tools and rethinking how software is built

• Obsession with craft and excitement to sweat the design details

• Desire to work with a small team and build 0 to 1

• 4+ years experience in Product Design roles (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Interesting and challenging problems to solve

• Experienced founding team to learn from

• Competitive salary and equity

• Generous budget for laptop, monitors, and other office equipment

• Remote work, hybrid optional

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401k plan with matching

• Unlimited vacation policy

Our Commitment to Diversity

At Airplane, we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do this because we know the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Airplane does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We encourage candidates of underrepresented backgrounds to apply.