Creative Director / Head of Design

Convex is the backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents. Our mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime. The Team: Convex has assembled a team that has built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world and scaled companies to millions in revenue and thousands of employees. We’re a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations. The Role: We have a real point of view and an obsession with craft. So far, this comes through mostly in our product. We need someone to own the creative identity of Convex and define what that looks and feels like. Our customers are developers, who can spot inauthenticity instantly. The brand has to be distinct, thoughtful, a little playful, and honest. The kind of thing a skeptical engineer trusts on sight. The scope is broad. Brand, product design, marketing, events, the website: everything a developer encounters. The challenge isn't just doing the work, it's deciding what matters most. Convex is moving fast and there's more to own than any one person can cover, so the best person for this role is someone with the strategic judgment to prioritize ruthlessly and the conviction to hold a creative vision across a wide surface area. This is a build-it-yourself role before it's a manage-it role. You'll be doing the work yourself, in Figma and in the codebase, working directly with the founders on brand and product. As we grow you'll hire a small, excellent group around you to scale your vision. What You'll Do:

• 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.

• 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