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title: 'Design Director at Nen Creative'
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# Design Director at Nen Creative

- **Company:** Nen Creative
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nen-creative/592976fd-2bc4-48a2-92d7-64c9cc7be866

## Job description

## About Nen Creative

Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth. Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more. We're growing quickly and looking for ambitious people who want to help build the company alongside us.

## About the Role

We're looking for a Design Director to lead our brand and design practice. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can set a high creative bar, lead and develop a multidisciplinary design team, and build strong relationships with clients. You'll oversee creative quality across brand, web, and launch work from early concepts through final delivery. You'll work closely with our Brand Project Manager to keep projects moving effectively, while serving as the senior creative partner in key client conversations. You'll also play an important role in new business — helping shape creative approaches, lead pitches and presentations, and show prospective clients what great work with Nen can look like. We're looking for someone who can take meaningful ownership of the practice: improving the work, developing the team, strengthening how we operate, and helping us build the next chapter of Nen's brand offering.

## What You'll Do

Creative Leadership: Own the creative quality of our brand and design work across identity, web, and launch projects. Set the direction, push the work, and make sure everything that leaves the studio meets a high bar. Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary design team, helping designers grow their craft, thinking, presentation skills, and ability to work independently. Client Leadership: Serve as the senior creative partner on key engagements. Lead important reviews and presentations, build trust with founders and senior stakeholders, and help navigate creative feedback and difficult decisions. New Business: Participate in discovery, shape creative approaches, and lead or support pitches and presentations. Help us communicate Nen's point of view and win the kinds of projects we want to be doing. Process & Practice Building: Work closely with project management and leadership to improve critiques, QA, creative workflows, case studies, and how the brand practice operates as we grow.

## What We're Looking For

- 5–8 years of experience in brand, design, or creative roles, ideally within a strong branding or creative agency environment.
- Exceptional design judgment and craft. You know what great looks like, can push work beyond the obvious, and are willing to challenge conventions to create something distinctive.
- Extremely strong with clients. You're confident presenting to founders and senior stakeholders, can articulate and defend creative decisions, manage feedback, and build trust quickly.
- High ownership and reliability. You do whatever it takes to get important work over the line, stay calm under pressure, and don't need someone chasing you to make things happen. This is not a role for someone looking for a strictly 9–5 mindset.
- Able to move fluidly between direction and execution. You can think at the highest level about the idea, strategy, and creative system, but you're also willing to get into the details and help make the work better when needed.
- Driven to raise the bar. You want to build better work, better processes, and a better team — not simply maintain what already exists.

## Why Join Us

- Help shape the next stage of a fast-growing independent creative studio.
- Take meaningful ownership over the quality and direction of our brand practice.
- Work directly with ambitious founders and some of the most exciting companies in technology.
- Have real influence over how we work, what we make, and the kind of studio we become.
- Remote-friendly environment.
- Healthcare coverage.
- Paid time off and company holidays.

## About Nen Creative

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A design studio that partners with early-stage tech companies to build brands, products, and stories through strategy, design, and video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Jason Zhu (Co-Founder, Partner) and Michael Zhu (Managing Partner, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design services (brand identity, product design, video production) for technology startups
- **Target customers**: B2B – early-stage startups, venture capital firms, and tech companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We build brands, products, and stories that move bold ideas forward.” (About page)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Brand Identity & Strategy**: Logo design, brand guidelines, deck design, collateral, iconography, art direction, illustration.
- **Website Design & Development**: Full web design and development (likely using Webflow), interactive prototypes, design systems.
- **Product (UI/UX) Design**: User research, UX architecture, interface design, interactive prototyping for digital products.
- **Video Production**: Launch videos, testimonial videos, scripted content, product videos, animation, motion design, cinematography.
- **Pitch Deck Design**: Specialized decks for fundraising, built to help startups tell their story to investors.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 16 employees (as of mid-2024) with 68.8% year-over-year growth (+11 people)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, LA-Tech Week, Wildr, Mantis VC (from LinkedIn)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 32 active job postings (monthly job postings up +88.2%, quarterly up +113.3%)
  - LinkedIn followers: 3,724 (+162.1% year-over-year)
  - Monthly website traffic: 6,381 visits (+64.0% monthly growth)
  - Expanding presence: New York City headquarters with job postings in San Francisco and Jersey City

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-service capability**: Offers brand, product, and video under one roof – a rare combination for a small studio.
- **Startup empathy**: Founders and team have backgrounds in building and scaling products, so they understand the pace and constraints of early-stage companies.
- **Speed and precision**: Described as “disciplined, fast, and precise” – moving like a startup while crafting like a studio.
- **Strong client roster**: Already working with top-tier VC firms and high-growth startups, signaling trust and quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the team across multiple disciplines (design, motion, production, account management, strategy) to meet growing demand from tech clients.
- **Direction for growth**: Likely expanding into new geographies (San Francisco, Jersey City) and deepening capabilities in video and motion design.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Creative, startup-like environment that values discipline and craft. The studio’s name is inspired by *Hunter × Hunter*, reflecting a focus on mastery and energy. The team is young and growing fast.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Many roles are listed as “In-Office or Remote” – offering flexibility. The company has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Jersey City (Built In listings).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
  - Opportunity to work on high-impact projects for top VC-backed startups.  
  - Roles span design, motion, production, strategy, and operations – variety of creative paths.  
  - Active hiring with 32 open positions, indicating strong growth and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nencreative.com (Homepage)](https://www.nencreative.com/)
2. [nencreative.com/about](https://www.nencreative.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn - Nen Creative](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nencreative)
4. [Built In - Nen Creative Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/nen-creative/jobs)

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