Founding Designer

About Aspect

Intelligent media storage for creative teams.

Tech

The core of Aspect is a virtual filesystem that mounts S3 cloud storage as a native hard drive. An editor in New York opens a 200GB project and it streams in real-time, with no syncing and no downloading, while a colorist in London edits the same file and sees changes propagate instantly. Making this work means solving hard problems: tiered caching (memory, local server, cloud) so a video scrub hits warm storage instead of stalling on a round trip, concurrent writes from multiple machines without corruption, recovering from mid-upload network drops without re-sending gigabytes, and offline work that syncs cleanly on reconnect. Around that we're building: * A **multimodal understanding pipeline** that breaks media into searchable, structured data, including scene boundaries, transcription, visual and text embeddings, and LLM-extracted metadata, with dependency-orchestrated processing stages, and more modalities and agentic "deep research" queries on the way. * A **Postgres-native backend** where the database is also the job queue, vector search engine, permission system, and coordination layer, deliberately simple in dependencies and deep in how it uses them. * A **React frontend + SDK** shared across web and desktop clients, with SDKs published to npm and PyPI and integrations like a Premiere Pro panel coming next.

The role

Aspect is looking for a full-time Founding Designer to bring our brand to life across our website, social channels, product launches, and events.Aspect is a platform for media teams to store, organize, and manage video assets. Learn more at [aspect.inc](https://aspect.inc).Our brand is already well defined. We’re looking for someone with strong creative taste who can learn the product and brand quickly, bring fresh ideas, and turn them into thoughtful, polished work. This is a hands-on role focused on brand, marketing, and content design. You’ll work directly with the founders to help Aspect reach creative and post-production teams.## What you’ll work on- Design and create social content and campaigns.- Develop creative assets for product and feature launches.- Create visuals and help write content for our blog and website.- Bring customer stories to life.- Design materials for events, dinners, and other activations.- Research interesting campaigns, visual references, and ideas from other brands.- Help distribute content and keep our brand consistent across channels.## What we’re looking for- Strong creative taste and an eye for typography, layout, color, and imagery.- Hands-on experience with Figma, Photoshop, and Midjourney.- Strong writing skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly.- An interest in technology, media, and branding.- Someone who can take an idea from inspiration to execution and work comfortably within an established brand.- Experience taking a product, brand, or channel from 0 to 1, ideally at an early-stage startup or high-growth company.- Highly experimental and self-directed, with the ability to move fast, take ownership, and work through ambiguity.- Strong instincts for distribution across social, creators, community, and events.## Details- Work remotely or from our Midtown Manhattan office.- Full time.- Paid.- Starting November.- Lunch and dinner covered.## How to applyApply through Y Combinator. Your application must include a link to one or more Pinterest boards featuring moods, designs, and aesthetics that inspire you. We want to see your taste and what catches your eye.