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# Creative Director / Head of Design at Convex

- **Company:** Convex
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/cbeb022f-7277-4fdc-8a97-0359ba347b81

## Job description

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:](https://convex.dev/about-us) 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.

What Excites Us:

- 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 Convex's office in SF.

Ideal Characteristics 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.

Do they have taste, with receipts? 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.

Do they think strategically about brand? 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.

Can they execute and dream? 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.

Do they get developers? 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.

Do they value simplicity? 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.

Do they bring energy to the room? Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.

*The salary range for this full-time position is > $250,000 + equity + benefits

## About Convex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Convex provides a reactive backend-as-a-service platform that combines a database, server functions, and real-time sync, enabling web developers to build full-stack applications without complex backend engineering.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jamie Turner (CEO) and James Cowling (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), Cloud Infrastructure, Database, Web Development Platform
- **Target customers**: Web developers and engineering teams building full-stack applications (B2B, developer tools)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet and who gets to build it. We aim to empower web developers to build fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without complex backend engineering or database administration." [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **[Convex Platform]**: A reactive backend platform that provides an ACID-compliant database, real-time data sync, server functions, cron jobs, file storage, vector search, and built-in authentication — all expressed in pure TypeScript. It integrates with major frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, React Native, Vue, Svelte, Remix, etc.) and is designed to work seamlessly with AI coding tools. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$79.6M** across multiple rounds. Key rounds include a $3.5M Seed (2021), a $26M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital (2022), and a subsequent $24M Series A extension (2025). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev) | [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Neo, Jamstack Innovation Fund [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount has grown **64% year-over-year** to approximately 31 employees. The company has active job postings across engineering and product roles, with a **100% quarterly increase** in job listings. Talent is sourced from top tech companies including Dropbox (6 hires), Google (2), Figma, and Plaid. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Reactive architecture**: Unlike traditional BaaS platforms, Convex provides automatic, granular real-time sync between database state and the frontend, eliminating the need for state management libraries and cache invalidation.
- **Developer experience**: The entire backend is written in TypeScript, making it highly accessible to frontend developers and enabling AI coding tools to generate high-quality backend code with exceptional accuracy.
- **Strong consistency with ACID compliance**: Offers transactional guarantees that many competing real-time databases do not, making it suitable for complex, data-critical applications.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Both founders are former Senior Engineering Directors/Principal Engineers at Dropbox, with deep expertise in exabyte-scale storage, distributed systems, and global database infrastructure. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-powered development**: Convex is doubling down on AI integration, positioning its TypeScript-native platform as the ideal backend for AI agents and AI-generated code. The company has a dedicated Head of AI (Seth Raphael) and is actively hiring for AI engineering roles. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/)
- **Ecosystem expansion**: Building a component ecosystem where developers can install pre-built backend modules via `npm i`, reducing the need to build common backend features from scratch.
- **Scaling the team**: With 6 open roles as of June 2026, Convex is focused on growing its engineering, product, and AI teams to accelerate product development and market reach. [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Convex emphasizes a mission-driven, high-trust environment. Core values include "Be Worthy of Trust," "Give a Shit," "Make Work Human," "Do it for the Why," and "Drive Forward Progress." The team is described as "small (but growing!)," "close-knit, welcoming," and "genuinely passionate." [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model — three days in the office (San Francisco) for collaboration and connection, with up to two days remote for focused work. Candidates must be able to commute to the San Francisco office. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Office**: A "nice office full of plants and natural light" located at 444 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity, 401k retirement plan, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance (premiums covered for employees and dependents), flexible paid vacation with 10+ observed holidays, commuter benefits subsidy, and quarterly team off-sites. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Engineering culture**: High-impact roles on a small team with deep technical challenges (distributed systems, databases, real-time infrastructure). The team includes engineers from Dropbox, Google, Figma, and Plaid, offering a strong mentorship environment. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)

## Sources
1. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/) — Official product page
2. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us) — About Us page (mission, team, history)
3. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) — Careers page (culture, benefits, values, work policy)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev) — LinkedIn company page (funding, headcount, talent sources, locations)
5. [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex) — Third-party job tracker (funding stage, open roles)

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