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title: 'Motion Designer at SkyPilot'
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# Motion Designer at SkyPilot

- **Company:** SkyPilot
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot/am9icG9zdDpd6ek3Ban7UiN952RVAkAO

## Job description

## About SkyPilot

[SkyPilot](https://skypilot.ai/) accelerates the world's most ambitious AI teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute across clusters into one optimized, highly available and easy-to-use pool: a single AI supercomputer.

SkyPilot (10k+ GitHub stars, 18M+ downloads) manages the GPU fleets of 100s of companies, from Fortune 500s to top AI-natives like Abridge, Applied Compute, Mistral, Unconventional AI, H Company, and Nubank, with usage growing exponentially. Born in the UC Berkeley lab behind Spark and Databricks, our growing team includes top-tier talent from Databricks, Google, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, and Cornell. To date, SkyPilot has raised over $20M in seed funding from top investors (incl. Lux, Coatue, Amplify) and operators (incl. Ali Ghodsi, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Aaron Levie).

## The role

Motion is how SkyPilot tells its product story. As our first Motion Designer, you'll define what that looks like — the timing, the feel, the visual language — across product films, launches, campaigns, events and social, from kinetic type to demos of the product itself.

We look for someone who loves the fun challenge of capturing the attention of a technical audience. The people who run the world's most ambitious AI infrastructure don't want to be marketed to. The work has to earn their attention on craft and content.

You'll own motion end to end and set the standard for how our brand moves.

## What you'll do

- Define SkyPilot's product motion language. The principles, the reusable assets, and the pipeline that makes it easy to produce against.
- Own motion across product, social, and events. While the focus is on product motion, you will have the opportunity to build content for other areas.
- Bring our launches and events to life. Launch films, conference loops, keynote and demo support, and the short-form cuts that come off each one.
- Partner with engineering, product, and marketing to build memorable visuals that communicate complex ideas clearly.

## What we're looking for

- 4+ years of experience producing technical product motion videos; ideally at startups between Seed and Series C stage targeting developer audiences. Years matter less than what you can show us — if you've been doing this for two years and the work is exceptional, apply.
- Experience producing motion videos targeting X, LinkedIn, websites, Instagram, etc.
- A portfolio that sets a high bar for motion, visual design, and craft.
- You own motion assets end-to-end: from concept through storyboard, design and production.
- Taste, and the ability to explain it. You can tell engineers and marketers when a piece is working when it is not.
- Strong attention to details (almost to a paranoid degree) in the motion you produce.
- Comfort with ownership and ambiguity, focus on craft, and the ambition to build a motion brand from scratch inside a fast-moving team.

## What we offer

- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Company 401(k) plan.
- The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership.
- A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley.
- Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work.

Location: San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.

## About SkyPilot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SkyPilot provides a unified AI compute platform that turns fragmented GPU clusters across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and on-premises resources into a single, manageable “AI supercomputer.”
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $20M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (company launched from stealth in July 2026; technology originated from UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab)
- **Founders**: Zongheng Yang (CEO), Zhanghao Wu, Romil Bhardwaj, alongside Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and networking pioneer Scott Shenker (both Berkeley professors)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / cloud computing orchestration
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI teams – including research labs, foundation model builders, healthcare, financial services, and large enterprises – that need to manage large-scale GPU fleets across multiple providers.
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Turn fragmented compute into one AI supercomputer” so that AI teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **[SkyPilot Platform (Managed)](https://skypilot.ai)**: A managed control plane that abstracts heterogeneous compute (Kubernetes, Slurm, VMs, hyperscalers, neoclouds) into a single pool. Supports interactive development, pre‑training at scale, sandboxes for RL/agents, multi‑cluster serving, and production workloads. Includes GPU health monitoring, auto‑remediation, HA, quota management, SSO, RBAC, and SOC 2 compliance. Customers have seen up to 20x performance improvements over the open‑source version.
- **[SkyPilot Open Source](https://skypilot.ai)**: Free, community‑driven project with 14M+ downloads and 280+ contributors. Used by hundreds of organizations to unify compute across 20+ clouds. Provides CLI, intelligent scheduler, GPU monitoring, and multi‑cluster support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (seed round)
- **Key Metric (Private)**: **Total Funding** – $20M seed (July 2026)
- **Notable Investors & Partners**:
  - Lead: Lux Capital
  - Participants: Amplify Partners, Coatue Management, Foundation Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund
  - Angel operators: Ali Ghodsi (Databricks), Jeff Dean (Google), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Tristan Handy (dbt Labs)
  - Cloud partners: Nebius, CoreWeave, Lambda, AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SageMaker Hyperpod)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 14M+ open‑source downloads (6M in last 3 months)
  - GPU hours consumed grew 35% MoM (6x in last 6 months)
  - Top deployments: 1,000+ nodes and 10,000+ GPUs
  - 280+ open‑source contributors
  - Adopted by Nubank, Abridge, Applied Compute, H Company, Archer, Hippocratic AI

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified abstraction** across 20+ clouds and any accelerator – customers are not locked into a single provider.
- **AI‑native scheduling** (topology‑aware, priority queueing, GPU sharing, preemption) that maximizes fleet utilization.
- **Proactive GPU health checks** with auto‑remediation – reduces downtime in large training runs.
- **Enterprise‑grade security** (BYOC, BYOK, private VPCs, air‑gapped, SOC 2) combined with the agility of an open‑source ecosystem.
- **World‑class founding team** – includes a Databricks co‑founder and UC Berkeley systems researchers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product development** – continue building out the managed platform (already 20x faster than OSS).
- **Engineering expansion** – actively hiring in engineering and go‑to‑market roles.
- **Go‑to‑market growth** – opening platform access to select new customers; scaling sales.
- **Open‑source ecosystem** – deepen contributions and community engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting‑edge mission**: Building the foundational infrastructure for the AI industry alongside top hyperscalers and neoclouds.
- **Strong team**: Founded by renowned systems researchers and backed by elite investors and AI leaders.
- **Traction & growth**: Explosive adoption (6x growth in GPU hours) and a clear product‑market fit with frontier AI teams.
- **Autonomy & impact**: Small, fast‑moving startup where engineers can directly shape a control plane used by thousands of GPUs.
- **Work policy** – not publicly specified, but typical for a stealth‑stage startup; likely offers flexibility. The team is headquartered in San Francisco.
- **Careers**: Open roles in Engineering and GTM (see [SkyPilot on Gem](https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot)).

## Sources
1. [skypilot.ai (homepage)](https://skypilot.ai)
2. [skypilot.ai (about)](https://skypilot.ai/about)
3. [skypilot.ai (funding announcement blog)](https://skypilot.ai/blog/skypilot-the-company)
4. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/)
5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skypilot-launches-with-20m-to-accelerate-custom-intelligence-for-frontier-ai-teams-302830808.html)

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