Founding Brand Designer

At Render, we're dedicated to building a powerful and user-friendly cloud that simplifies hosting for every developer and team. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from simple static sites to complex multi-service architectures. By offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their associated complexity and maintenance challenges, we enable our users to concentrate on product development instead of managing servers.

Our team is a diverse and talented group addressing universal challenges of software development. We prioritize rapid iteration while maintaining a strong focus on user experience, craft, and reliability. This commitment drives us to improve continually. Our organic, product-led growth has attracted over 2 million developers, with 100,000+ new developers signing up every month. Our customers trust Render for our reliable and scalable cloud with enterprise-grade capabilities, fully managed datastores, and advanced security and compliance features.

In January 2025, we reached a significant milestone by raising $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M. This investment enables us to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, while catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

Applying to Render:

We're seeking candidates with high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the role:

Render is looking for our first Brand Designer. We have a product developers love (and love talking about). This is evident in our organic, product-led growth to more than 2 million developers on the platform and significant self-serve revenue.

By joining us at an early stage, you will shape our visual identity and create engaging web experiences that communicate our story. You'll collaborate with marketing, product, engineering, and executive teams to maintain design consistency and elevate our brand presence.

You will:

• Work directly with our CEO and leadership team to shape go-to-market at Render.

• Communicate what problems we're solving and why it matters.

• Own and evolve our visual identity system (color palette, typography, illustration style, etc.).

• Design and maintain our marketing website, documentation website, landing pages, and conversion-focused experiences.

• Create polished visual assets for product launches, digital marketing, social media, and events.

• Build and maintain our design system to ensure consistency.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 5+ years of experience in brand design and web design roles

• A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual storytelling, craft, and attention to detail

• Deep understanding of modern web design principles, responsive design, and design systems

• Proficiency with design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools

• Solid understanding of web development fundamentals and design implementation best practices

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions

• Experience working closely with leadership and cross-functional teams

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience designing for developer-focused products or technical audiences

• Knowledge of motion design and interaction design principles

• Familiarity with front-end development or the ability to implement simple design changes

• Understanding of accessibility standards

Benefits

Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $116,000 and $195,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.

• The opportunity is eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.

• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.

• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs are available as well.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, 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.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

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