Creative Director

About the role

We are seeking a Creative Director to lead the brand evolution of Render, a cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The role involves setting the creative vision, holding the quality bar, and guiding the brand through a period of rapid growth.

Responsibilities

• Own Render's brand strategy and positioning
• Partner with the Head of Design, product marketing, and executive stakeholders to lock positioning, brand attributes, and messaging architecture
• Define what great looks like and ensure everything we ship clears that bar
• Lead and grow the brand design team
• Drive the brand toward documented, reusable systems — guidelines, a versioned asset library, a maturing marketing design system — and keep brand and product design in sync as both evolve
• Bring order to how our brand work ships
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering leadership on how the brand shows up in company's biggest moments

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as an Art Director or Creative Director, ideally in developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or another technical, credibility-driven category
• Proven experience managing and developing creative talent
• Strategic range
• Exceptional craft and taste
• Fluency in brand-as-system
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills
• Credibility with a technical audience
• A leadership style built on trust and clarity

Qualifications

• Experience evolving a brand through a stage change, developer-first to enterprise-ready, without losing the original audience
• A point of view on what AI-native products mean for brand and design, including how a brand shows up to agents, not only people
• Experience leading brand and creative for events and conferences
• Hands-on or design-engineering literacy: comfort near code, motion, or prototyping
• Track record of creative side projects, talks, or writing that demonstrate your craft and point of view

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Visual design and branding
• Collaboration and leadership
• Technical understanding

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders
• Continuous learning benefits & related support

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD