Creative Director / Head of Design

- 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.

- Keep us honest: kill the marketing BS before it ships, including ours.

- 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.

This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for taste, craft, and commercial instinct, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.

We don't mean taste as an abstraction. We mean a track record of shipping things that are genuinely excellent, and a strong point of view on why they're good. Excellence can't be learned passively; we want to see the work and hear the reasoning behind it.

Great creative leaders have a point of view on where the brand should go, not just how to execute what's in front of them. We want someone who can 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. That conviction is what makes a brand coherent over time.

Strategy without execution is just theory. The best creative leaders we've seen can go from a brand direction conversation with a founder to opening Figma and making it real themselves. We need both, and we need them in the same person.

Developer tools are different. Positioning that works for a consumer app or a sales-led B2B product falls flat with engineers, who are quick to spot anything that doesn't ring true. We want someone who understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a skeptical developer deciding whether to trust a tool.

The best design, like the best systems, is simple. We have a bias toward doing fewer things and doing them really well, and we want a creative leader who shares it: someone who can make a hard idea feel obvious and a complex surface feel intentional.