We didn't start out as the largest design team in crypto, but as a small agency with a goal: to prove it's possible to build great products while treating our people with genuine care and respect.
Founded in 2019 by Phil Hedayatnia and Min Kim, Airfoil began as a small fintech-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 70+ creatives, across offices in San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, Seoul, and remotely from 16+ countries around the world have tackled 90+ projects used by millions today across the cryptoeconomy - from wallets, to DEXs, to DAO tools and some of the first music and gaming NFT platforms.
Our core beliefs
We believe web3 can do tremendous good - but it's up to us to ensure that happens.
Web3 can nudge companies to cooperate rather than compete, grant workers greater ownership, and help artists make a living. But it can also drive the over-financialization of everyday life. As participants in the beginning of a new industry, it's our responsibility to set it in a positive direction.
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.
