Creative Director

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.
• Set and uphold the creative vision across surfaces including the marketing site, events, social, brand, and product touchpoints. Define visual identity, motion, illustration, voice, and tone.
• Lead and grow the brand design team: manage, mentor, and develop a founding team of senior brand designers; shape the team's structure as Render scales.
• Build brand as a system with documented, reusable guidelines, a versioned asset library, and a maturing marketing design system. Keep brand and product design in sync.
• Bring order to how brand work ships: prioritize and deliver creative work while maintaining a high-quality bar amid fast launch velocity.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering leadership on brand expression during major moments like launches, events, fundraising, and product surfaces.

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: leading designers, giving direct feedback, and building team culture.
• Strategic range with a portfolio showing sharp brand thinking and vision-setting ability.
• 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 coherence as the company grows.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills: co-own positioning with product marketing, collaborate with product design, and advocate for brand in leadership.
• Credibility with a technical audience: understand (or eager to learn) what credibility looks like to developers and technical buyers.
• Leadership style built on trust and clarity: raise the bar by growing senior people and shaping direction collaboratively.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.
• 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 craft and point of view.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $250,000 - $344,000 (from ATS data).
• 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; 99% employer-paid dental and vision.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Home office stipends for remote employees.
• Continuous learning benefits.