Creative Director

Render

36d • $250,000 - $344,000

About The Position

Render is seeking a Creative Director to lead the evolution of its brand as the company transitions to becoming a leading platform for AI-native applications. This senior leadership role requires a 'player/coach' who can set the creative vision, maintain high quality standards, and contribute directly to the work. The Creative Director will guide a founding brand team through a critical phase of brand development, ensuring the brand aligns with the company's growth and target audience, from solo developers to enterprises. The role emphasizes driving impact through craft and clarity, providing strategic direction, and elevating creative standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as an Art Director or Creative Director, preferably in developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or a similar technical, credibility-driven category.
• Proven experience managing and developing creative talent, including leading designers, providing direct feedback, and fostering a strong team culture.
• Demonstrated strategic range with a portfolio showcasing sharp brand thinking and vision-setting capabilities.
• Exceptional craft and taste with a high bar for visual execution across digital, identity systems, and brand experience.
• Fluency in brand-as-system, understanding design systems, guidelines, and maintaining brand coherence.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, including co-owning positioning with product marketing and collaborating with product design.
• Credibility with a technical audience, understanding what resonates with developers and technical buyers.
• A leadership style built on trust and clarity, focused on growing senior talent and shaping direction collaboratively.

Nice To Haves

• Experience evolving a brand from developer-first to enterprise-ready without alienating the original audience.
• A point of view on AI-native products and their impact on brand and design, including how brands appear to agents.
• Experience leading brand and creative for events and conferences.
• Hands-on or design-engineering literacy, with comfort around code, motion, or prototyping.
• A track record of creative side projects, talks, or writing that demonstrate craft and point of view.

Responsibilities

• Own Render's brand strategy and positioning, partnering with the Head of Design, product marketing, and executive stakeholders.
• Set and uphold the creative vision across all surfaces, including the marketing site, events, social media, brand, product touchpoints, visual identity, motion, illustration, voice, and tone.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a founding team of senior brand designers, and shape the team's structure for future growth.
• Build the brand as a documented, reusable system, including guidelines, an asset library, and a maturing marketing design system, ensuring brand and product design remain synchronized.
• Shape the prioritization and delivery of creative work, maintaining high quality amidst fast launch velocity and competing demands.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering leadership on brand representation during key company moments like launches, events, and fundraising.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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