[Hiring] Staff Brand Designer @Render

Role Description

Render's mission is simple: eliminate the tedious work of building software by providing a cloud platform that just works.

We're evolving from the go-to platform for solo developers into the backbone for fast-scaling teams. Our brand has to evolve with us. Developers already love Render for how it feels to use; now the brand needs to carry that same clarity and confidence everywhere else: on our site, in our campaigns, on a conference floor, and in every launch we put into the world.

As Staff Brand Designer, you'll set the creative direction for how Render looks, sounds, and shows up. You'll take ideas from a blank page to a shipped campaign, build the visual system that holds it all together, and raise the craft bar for everyone who touches the brand. This is a senior IC role with real scope: you'll own work end to end, shape brand strategy alongside marketing leadership, and lead by example through the quality of what you make.

What makes this work hard and interesting:

• Developers are a famously skeptical audience.
• Great brand work has to earn attention from people who don't want to be sold to.
• Ideas with real substance, design with genuine craft, and a voice that respects how engineers think.

You'll join a design team that takes its craft seriously, with weekly critiques and deep collaboration with marketing, product, and engineering. You'll thrive here if you love building ideas from scratch, can move between big concepts and pixel-level detail in the same day, and want your work to define how a generation of developers sees Render.

What You'll Do

• Set the creative direction for Render's brand.
• Define and evolve how Render looks and feels across every touchpoint: website, launches, social, ads, swag, events, and beyond.
• Lead concept development from blank page to big idea.
• Own campaigns end to end.
• Bring the brand to life in physical space.
• Push graphic design craft to its highest level.
• Build and steward the brand system.
• Art direct and collaborate with outside partners.
• Raise the bar across the team.
• Partner across the company.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of brand and graphic design experience, including time leading creative direction for a brand, campaign, or major launch.
• World-class graphic design craft.
• A track record of concept development.
• Campaign experience across channels.
• Event and physical brand experience.
• Brand systems thinking.
• A genuine interest in developer culture.
• Strong creative judgment and the ability to prioritize.
• Clear, persuasive communication.

Nice-to-Haves

• Animation and motion design.
• Interactive design and experiences.
• Comfort near code.
• Experience at a developer tools, infrastructure, or technical company.
• Illustration or 3D skills that expand what the brand can do in-house.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted design.
• Writing, talks, or side projects that show your craft and point of view.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.