Creative Director / Head of Design

Convex • San Francisco, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Convex is seeking a Creative Director / Head of Design to own the creative identity of the company. This role is responsible for defining the look and feel of the brand across all touchpoints, including brand, product design, marketing, events, and the website. The ideal candidate will have a strong point of view on craft, a deep understanding of the developer audience, and the ability to set strategic creative direction while also executing hands-on. This is a build-it-yourself role before it's a manage-it role, with the opportunity to hire and lead a small, world-class creative team as the company grows. The focus is on creating a distinct, thoughtful, playful, and honest brand that resonates with skeptical engineers.

Requirements

• A portfolio with range: brand systems and product design, not just one or the other.
• Taste that's calibrated for a technical, skeptical audience and a track record to prove it.
• The ability to set direction and also open the file and do the work.
• The judgment to prioritize across a broad surface area and hold a creative vision while doing it.
• Experience building or leading a small creative team.
• Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
• High demand for taste, craft, and commercial instinct.
• A track record of shipping things that are genuinely excellent, and a strong point of view on why they're good.
• Ability to look at Convex and form a clear opinion about what it should stand for visually, how it should evolve, and what it should never be.
• Ability to go from a brand direction conversation with a founder to opening Figma and making it real themselves.
• Understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a skeptical developer deciding whether to trust a tool.
• Bias toward doing fewer things and doing them really well.
• Ability to make a hard idea feel obvious and a complex surface feel intentional.
• Constructive, positive, and excited about making things better.

Responsibilities

• Set the creative strategy for how Convex shows up across brand and product, and make the calls on what to prioritize.
• Own the Convex brand and identity across every touch point.
• Do the work yourself now (alongside our existing team of creative freelancers), and build a small, world-class creative team later.
• Set and hold the bar for taste across everything.
• Keep us honest: kill the marketing BS before it ships, including ours.
• Make a bunch of cool stuff.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed