Creative Lead

The Role

As our Creative Lead, you’ll spearhead our creative strategy and execution across all channels, from brand campaigns to product launches. We’re looking for a visionary and hands-on leader to shape the brand’s voice and ensure that all brand, design, and messaging reflects our brand values and drives business impact. This role involves managing a small team while performing the duties of an individual contributor. You’ll collaborate closely with growth, product, and leadership to ensure every creative output reflects our brand values and drives impact. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in design and a proven track record of executing high impact creative and campaigns in a fast faced startup environment. Strong preference for experience leading creative efforts focused on developer audiences or technical products. We are a fast-paced startup and expect our creative team to operate with the same energy and agility

Responsibilities

• Shape the Brand Identity: Define and evolve the visual and narrative identity of the brand, ensuring consistency and cohesion across all campaigns and channels. You’ll manage the brand style guide, tone, and design. 

• Lead Creative Production: manage the creative deliverables across web design, video production, motion graphics, illustration, iconography and other assets ensuring high quality output and on time delivery. 

• Partner with growth: work closely with growth to create awareness campaigns including social, paid digital, web, email, events, in app, influencer collabs, and stunts and activations. 

• Data informed: build a data informed approach to creative utilizing data to inform and evaluate creative performance. 

• Build and Lead the Creative Team: Recruit and develop a small team of designers, writers, videographers, editors, and freelancers to deliver best-in-class creative that drives results. Provide constructive feedback and guidance to team members, make creative decisions quickly, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with growth, product, and leadership teams to align creative strategies with business objectives and ensure a seamless integration of creative assets.

• Push the Boundaries: Stay ahead of industry trends, bringing innovative, forward-thinking ideas to every project and elevating the brand’s creative output in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a creative role, with 3+ years leading creative at a startup or fast-paced environment

• Proven ability to manage the creative process end-to-end, from ideation to delivery.

• Exceptional design and storytelling skills, with a strong portfolio to match.

• Experience creating high-impact campaigns across multiple channels, including digital, social, and video.

• Comfort with ambiguity and an ability to move quickly while maintaining attention to detail.

• Strong leadership skills and a track record of mentoring and growing creative teams.

• A deep understanding of brand-building and how creative drives business outcomes.

• Strong preference for experience leading creative efforts focused on developer audiences or technical products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or related industries

• You have experience coding

Salary Transparency

Total compensation at Warp consists of two parts: 1) a competitive base salary, and most importantly, 2) meaningful equity.

When we find the right person, we try to put our best foot forward with an offer that excites you. We consider what you’d like to be paid, the skills and experience you bring, what similar jobs pay, and make sure there’s equal pay for equal work among those you’ll be working with. The budgeted compensation amount for this role is targeted at $180,000-$230,000.