Lightcone is hiring! We build beautiful things for truth-seeking and world-saving.

We are hiring for three different positions: a senior designer, a campus manager, and a core team generalist. This is the first time in almost two years where we are actively hiring and trying to grow our team!

Senior Designer

When we are at our best, I think we produce world-class design. AI 2027 was I think a great design achievement, so is much of LessWrong.com itself. I also think on a product and business level, making things beautiful and intuitive and well-crafted is crucial. I like some of Patrick Collison's thinking on this:

If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world's just uglier than it needs to be… One can do things well or poorly, and beauty is not a rivalrous good.

My intuition is that more of Stripe's success than one would think is downstream of the [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) Senior Designer

(03:15) Campus Operations Co-Lead

(04:51) Core-team generalist

(07:44) Some more thoughts on working at Lightcone

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First published:
January 16th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wowc8jfvyrsp4a6uk/lightcone-is-hiring-a-generalist-a-designer-and-a-campus

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“Lightcone is hiring a generalist, a designer, and a campus operations co-lead” by habryka

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