Responsibilities

• Product & Industrial Design - 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.
• Brand & Identity - 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.
• Marketing - 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..
• Environments & Team - 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.

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.