Design Team Manager (Permanent)

Turn Conveo’s design from scattered to systematic, and build the system that scales the brand from $4M to $50M. What we are building at ConveoConveo is the AI research platform enabling fast, affordable, and high-quality consumer / B2B research. Global brands like Unilever, Google, and Orange use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across marketing and product teams.Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.nTo keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.You will own how design works at Conveo. You design the system, set the standards, decide what ships, and run the day-to-day. Rob, our Creative Director, leads visual direction, and we have a brand agency coming in to do a brand refresh soon. We have a foundation of assets: decks, ads, social, website. We don’t have good templates or processes to scale those assets. Your job is to take what exists, keep what’s worth keeping, and build what we need to take all our assets to the next level.You’ve used AI to ship at volume without dropping the bar. If you want to be the person who turns Conveo’s brand into a real, scalable system, this is the role.Build the design system foundationsnnEstablish the scalable design system across Figma, decks, and web (components, templates, tokens, guidelines)n nnShape brand strategy alongside our Creative Director, founders, and agency, and then translate it into how design works day-to-dayn nnMake it easy for the whole company to stay on-brand without Design becoming a bottlenecknOwn recurring design outputnnShip a wide variety of assets, including sales decks, investor decks, ad creative, website pages, social images, event collateral, and merchn nnProduce data visualizations, infographics, product mockups, and long-form content imagery (for whitepapers, guides, one-pagers, reports)n nnContinuously raise the quality bar on the assets we ship most oftenn nnCreate templates, AI skills, and processes to allow team members to self-serve more and make Design scalablenRun design ops and triagennBe the first stop for all incoming design requests across the companyn nnScope, prioritize, and route work across resources, including internal designers, agencies, and freelancersn nnManage feedback loops, deadlines, and stakeholder communication so projects ship cleanlynn6+ years of design experience with strong B2B / SaaS exposure and a portfolio that proves both volume and craftn nnDemonstrable track record of building scalable design systems, templates, AI workflows, and reusable components that other teams actually adoptedn nnExcellent presentation design skills across sales decks and investor decksn nnExperience working across a wide range of design assetsn nnBrings structure and rigor to creative work. You ship on time, communicate proactively, and don’t let chaos compound.nStrong collaborator who is a true partner to opinionated founders, fellow creatives, and demanding GTM partners.nComfortable using AI tools to ship faster without dropping the quality bar.nPrior experience at a Series A/B startup scaling design from scratch.nRecurring assets ship on time, on brand, and at higher quality, with less reworkn nnA scalable design system is in place across Figma, Claude, decks, and web, and the wider team is actively using itn nnDesign ops runs smoothly: requests are triaged within 24 hours and Marketing, Sales, and Product trust the Design function to delivern nWe care about building real relationships, not just great products. nCompetitive compensation, including meaningful equity (stock options) with real upsiden n…