Creative Director

Rune•Mountain View, CA

1d•$120,000 - $165,000•Onsite

About The Position

Every solar and wind power plant is a latent data center. Rune connects power to the compute that needs it. Solar plants generate electricity the grid can't take: clipped by inverters, curtailed by operators, gone before it ever reaches a meter. Meanwhile, AI needs more power than new construction can deliver in time. Rune is building the fastest path to gigawatts of compute. Our product, RELIC, plugs directly into clean energy assets to deliver AI inference compute - no grid connection, no construction, and deployment in weeks. It's a radically simpler model: compute that comes online faster, costs a fraction of a traditional AI data center, and scales as fast as we can manufacture it. We're backed by Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Activate Capital, Committed Capital, Timeless Partners, and Logos Fund.

Requirements

5+ years spanning industrial design and brand or marketing leadership, with a portfolio of shipped physical products.
Formal industrial design training; fluent in 3D/CAD, materials, and manufacturing processes, and able to hold design intent in engineering trade-off conversations.
Has built a brand around hardware: took a physical product from design language through launch and demand generation.
Excellent marketer with demonstrated commercial results - campaigns, launches, and content that created measurable demand.
Range across mediums: identity systems, web, film and photo direction, spatial design, and document design.

Responsibilities

Own the industrial design language of the RELIC and carry it coherently across product generations. A RELIC in a solar field should read as Rune at a glance.
Work directly with engineering and manufacturing so design intent aligns with DFM, cost targets, and the realities of outdoor, utility-scale sites.
Build and maintain Rune's brand system, including identity, typography, color, photo and film direction, and publish the guidelines, templates, and asset library the whole company works from.
Design the document layer: pitch decks, data sheets, one-pagers, investor materials, and customer deliverables, partnering with our documentation function on content.
Own the website: structure, design, and copy standards, kept current as products and sites launch.
Partner with our press/PR agency to build the story and announcement calendar, write and review briefs and releases, prep spokespeople, and host press at deployments.
Support marketing end to end: positioning, narrative, website, content, launches, film and photography, events, and press.
Design Rune's physical environments (headquarters, manufacturing floor, and sites) to the same standard as the product.
Direct agencies, photographers, and fabricators to bring the vision to the field.