Founded in 2019 by Phil Hedayatnia and Min Kim, Airfoil began as a small founder-focused design agency in San Francisco. Frustrated by experiences at startups that put productivity over people, Phil and Min wanted to do something different: help startups succeed while ensuring the creatives behind each product launch do too.
Our team of 40+ creatives, across offices in San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, Seoul, and remotely from 16+ countries around the world have tackled 400+ projects used by millions today, including:
・Top blockchains, like Solana, NEAR, Avalanche, Sui, and more
・Over 15% of the top 100 most used apps in crypto, including Helius, Uniswap, DRiP, Turnkey, Pump.fun, Thena, and more
・Several of the top AI compute exchanges, including SF Compute, Compute.exchange, and Silicon Data
・Generative AI leaders and research teams, including Menlo AI, Hedra, VAPI, Exa, Reducto, and more
What's different, though, is that teams tend to stay with us for a while. 1/4 of our clients are long-term, meaning working with us in some capacity longer than a year. Most of our work is ongoing and retainer-based, enabling designers at Airfoil to deeply integrate with the teams they work with, rather than quickly turning around a rebrand and handing off work to an in-house team.
Working here means you can make your mark on what's next, while being part of a global community of designers who'll have your back along the way, supporting your growth. Most of us have been with Airfoil for 3+ years, and many of our senior designers reached their roles while at Airfoil; this is a place with opportunity for advancement over time.
Our core beliefs
We believe companies are communities, and should care about their people.
We see empathy as a superpower, and work hard to cultivate a company culture of collaboration > competition. We have a flatter hierarchy than most companies of our kind, where everyone knows one another on a first name basis and where critical feedback of leadership is allowed and encouraged.
We believe in assessing your skills, not your brand name.
Phil previously founded a company devoted to giving underrepresented talent a chance, so we took that to heart from day 1: hiring designers and engineers globally using paid take-home assessments rather than resumés.
We're remote friendly - because it's the fairest way to build the best team possible.
Though we'd love to welcome you to one of our hubs in Canada, Singapore, or Korea, as talent is globally distributed, we should be too.
