The opportunity
Render's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes. As we grow into the place to deploy AI-native apps and agents, our brand needs to match the…
What you'll do
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. You'll hold the hard line between production-grade credibility and the developer warmth that built Render.
Set and uphold the creative vision across surfaces. From the marketing site: to events (our developer conference, internal gatherings, and DevRel moments), social, brand, and product touchpoints, and the systems that make expression repeatable: visual identity, motion, illustration, voice, and tone. You'll define what great looks like and ensure everything we ship clears that bar.
Lead and grow the brand design team. You'll manage, mentor, and develop a: founding team of senior brand designers, and shape the team's structure as Render scales.
Build brand as a system, not a series of one-offs. You'll 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. You'll shape how we prioritize and: deliver creative work, maintaining a high-quality bar amid fast launch velocity and competing demands.
Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering leadership on how the: brand shows up. These are in the company's biggest moments: launches, events, fundraising, and the next generation of Render's product surfaces.
What they're looking for
- + 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. You've led: designers, given direct and actionable feedback, and built the kind of team culture where strong people do their best work. You see growing people as core to the job, not overhead.
- Strategic range. A portfolio that shows sharp brand thinking and the judgment: to set a vision. You can go deep on the work when it matters.
- Exceptional craft and taste. A high bar for visual execution across digital,: identity systems, and brand experience. You know when something hasn't cleared it yet.
