Published: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:51:05 GMT
Position: Creative Lead at Warp
Company Overview:
Warp is a revolutionary startup that is modernizing the command line for developers and teams. Our cloud-backed terminal is intuitive, collaborative, and intelligent, providing a seamless and efficient experience for developers. We are on a mission to build a generational company known for high quality developer products that are loved by users, rather than just tolerated.
Job Description:
As the Creative Lead at Warp, you will be responsible for spearheading our creative strategy and execution across all channels. This includes brand campaigns, product launches, and more. We are looking for a visionary and hands-on leader who can shape our 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 also being an individual contributor. You will work closely with the growth, product, and leadership teams to ensure that every creative output reflects our brand values and drives impact.
Responsibilities:
– Define and evolve the visual and narrative identity of the brand, ensuring consistency and cohesion across all campaigns and channels
– Manage the creative deliverables across web design, video production, motion graphics, illustration, iconography, and other assets
– Work closely with the growth team to create awareness campaigns through social media, paid digital, web, email, events, in-app, influencer collaborations, and stunts/activations
– Utilize data to inform and evaluate creative performance
– Recruit and develop a small team of designers, writers, videographers, editors, and freelancers
– Provide constructive feedback and guidance to team members
– Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align creative strategies with business objectives
– Stay ahead of industry trends and bring innovative ideas to every project
– Elevate 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
– Exceptional design and storytelling skills, with a strong portfolio
– Experience creating high-impact campaigns across multiple channels
– 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
– 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
– Experience coding
Compensation:
At Warp, we believe in transparency when it comes to compensation. Total compensation for this role consists of two parts: a competitive base salary and meaningful equity. The budgeted compensation amount for this role is targeted at $180,000-$230,000. All employees also receive equity in the company, which is a meaningful stock option grant with a four-year vesting period and one-year cliff. Final total compensation will be determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise.
Benefits:
– Competitive Salary & Meaningful Equity
– Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
– Flexible remote-first culture, with optional WeWork in SF and an office space in NYC for in-person collaboration
– 20 days of Paid Time Off
– 12 US Holidays
– 16 weeks of paid Parental Leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents
– Twice-a-year company retreats
– Monthly gym stipend
– 401(k)
– Pre-Tax FSA Health Savings Plan
– Complimentary OneMedical membership
Company Culture:
At Warp, we value honesty, humility, and pragmatism. Our core product principle is focusing on the user, and we are committed to understanding our users deeply. We believe that our team will be the best if it includes developers and designers from a wide range of backgrounds. Our early team comes from top companies like Google, Dropbox, Gem, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We are looking for passionate individuals to join us and help bring Warp to the world.
We are backed by a great group of venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Neo, and Box Group. We are also supported by a network of passionate angels, including Dylan Field (Co-Founder and CEO, Figma), Elad Gil (early investor in Airbnb, Pinterest, Stripe, and Square), Jeff Weiner (Executive Chairman and Ex-CEO, LinkedIn), Marc Benioff (Founder and CEO, Salesforce), and Sam Altman (Co-Founder & CEO, OpenAI).
The Product:
Our latest demo showcases some of our current features, but this is just the beginning. Our plan is to build out a set of experiences in the terminal that don’t exist today, such as collaboration, environment sharing, rich data types, and more.
The Opportunity:
The terminal is one of the few tools used by every developer every day, making it an ideal gateway to improving all sorts of developer activities. We believe there is an opportunity to build a unicorn-sized business by improving the command-line. Our strategy is bottom-up developer adoption, followed by driving revenue through enterprise sales and distribution partnerships.
To start, our goal is to become the everyday terminal of choice for individual users. We have built a closed-source server that implements all of the cloud-enabled features. These features will invite users to share their work with others, driving growth and encouraging collaboration. We will also focus on building a community and an ecosystem of terminal plugins and apps, creating network effects.
As we penetrate more teams, we will offer an enterprise plan with features focused on privacy, security, and environment management. These larger enterprise plans will be the ultimate driver of revenue, along with potential distribution deals for companies that see CLI integrations as a way to reach new customers.
About Warp:
Warp is a company run by product-first builders, with a core product for all developers. We are committed to understanding our users deeply and building the best product and business possible. If you’re interested in learning more about our company values and engineering team culture, please take a look at our internal How We Work guide. Apply link
