Conveo

Confident decisions in days with AI-led interviews.

Design Lead

London / Antwerp / Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Operations
Experience
5+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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About the role

What we are building at Conveo

Conveo 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.

What problem are we solving, and why is this an important problem to solve

The current/traditional research methods companies rely on are slow, expensive, and superficial. Running great research also requires expertise, which is a blocker to many companies. That directly affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them.

The team you will join

You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people. We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives. Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.

How we operate

  • We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve. That means we humbly go the extra mile every time.

  • We work hard, and we have fun.

  • To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.

The Role

You will own how marketing design works at Conveo. You design the templates, set the standards, approve assets, and run the day-to-day. You support our Creative Director in defining our visual brand, and then turn that into a system the rest of the company can use.

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.

This is a role for someone who's built before. You've designed templates that the rest of the company actually adopted. You've used AI to ship at volume without dropping the bar. You've worked with opinionated founders and fast paced teams. And you've held the standard without losing the relationships. You have taste, and you have spine.

If you want to be the person who turns Conveo's brand into a real, scalable system, this is the role.

Your Mission

1. Build the design system foundations

  • Establish the scalable design system across Figma, decks, and web (components, templates, tokens, guidelines)

  • Shape brand strategy alongside our Creative Director, founders, and agency, and then translate it into how design works day-to-day

  • Make it easy for the whole company to stay on-brand without Design becoming a bottleneck

2. Own recurring design output

  • Ship a wide variety of assets, including sales decks, investor decks, ad creative, website pages, social images, event collateral, and merch

  • Produce data visualizations, infographics, product mockups, and long-form content imagery (for whitepapers, guides, one-pagers, reports)

  • Continuously raise the quality bar on the assets we ship most often

  • Create templates, AI skills, and processes to allow team members to self-serve more and make Design scalable

3. Run design ops and triage

  • Be the first stop for all incoming design requests across the company

  • Scope, prioritize, and route work across resources, including internal designers, agencies, and freelancers

  • Manage feedback loops, deadlines, and stakeholder communication so projects ship cleanly

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of design experience with strong B2B / SaaS exposure and a portfolio that proves both volume and craft

  • Demonstrable track record of building scalable design systems, templates, AI workflows, and reusable components that other teams actually adopted

  • Excellent presentation design skills across sales decks and investor decks

  • Experience working across a wide range of design assets

  • Brings structure and rigor to creative work. You ship on time, communicate proactively, and don't let chaos compound.

  • Strong collaborator who is a true partner to opinionated founders, fellow creatives, and demanding GTM partners.

  • Comfortable using AI tools to ship faster without dropping the quality bar.

  • Prior experience at a Series A/B startup scaling design from scratch.

  • Prior experience in a product led company bringing product interfaces to life in marketing materials.

What success looks like

After 6-12 months:

  • Recurring assets ship on time, on brand, and at higher quality, with less rework

  • A scalable design system is in place across Figma, Claude, decks, and web, and the wider team is actively using it

  • Design ops runs smoothly: requests are triaged within 24 hours and Marketing, Sales, and Product trust the Design function to deliver

  • Design becomes a strategic advantage at Conveo because the engine works, not because of one-off heroics

Why join us

At Conveo, you'll join a team that genuinely enjoys working and spending time together. We care about building real relationships, not just great products. That's why we run quarterly team off-sites where we disconnect, reset, and have fun. Our next one is in Portugal this July.

  • Own a high-impact role at a hyper-growth, YC-backed AI company scaling from $4M to $50M

  • Direct access to founders and senior leadership

  • Work with world-class enterprise clients (Unilever, Google, P&G, Orange, and more)

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity (stock options) with real upside

  • Hybrid working model with offices in London, Antwerp, and New York

  • A culture built on taste, speed, ownership, and ambition

About Conveo

Our story so far:

Founded in 2024 as a better way to conduct qualitative interviews, Conveo quickly gained traction after going through the Summer 24 Y Combinator batch where we saw significant interest from Consumer Goods companies. After raising our $5.3m seed round, we executed closely with our customers to build the best qualitative market research platform centered around AI-moderated interviews. Since then we’ve expanded our scope, grown our team, and Today, we're seeing incredibly strong adoption and usage across Insights, marketing, innovation, and strategy teams in industries like: Consumer goods, Retail, Pharma, technology, and consumer services.

Background

  • We help companies understand their customers, giving us virtually unlimited market potential. The market research industry is valued at approximately $100B, with qualitative solutions representing a $30B opportunity. With AI enablement, this market is expanding rapidly. This is an infinite horizon problem.
  • Experienced team. Our head of research was the founder of a market research company with 600+ employees, our CEO previously co-founded a $75m ARR startup as CTO. Our commercial and operational teams bring their operational excellence from McKinsey, while our sales leadership includes former VPs from Ipsos.
  • We believe in forging deep collaborations with our customers. In just 15 months, we've landed deals with some of the world's largest companies that are quickly expanding their work with us, including Unilever, P&G, AB InBev, Nestlé, Google and many others. We are seeing many brands switch to us from our competitors. We’re a growing team passionate about solving real-world challenges in customer research, enabling companies to make user-informed decisions. We're looking for driven senior engineers who love working on complex systems, care about solving problems for users, and are excited to shape the future of AI-driven customer insights.
Conveo
Founded:2024
Batch:S24
Team Size:75
Status:
Active
Location:Antwerp, Belgium
Founders
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Founder
Hendrik Van Hove
Hendrik Van Hove
Founder