The haus
The people who will actually be on your call.
Small bench. Long tenure.
No account layer, no junior handoff, no rotating cast. The people below are the people who do the work, and they are the people you will be speaking to in month nine.
The HAUS XXIV team is a senior practitioner bench covering brand strategy, design, engineering, and marketing. Every engagement is staffed by the people who scoped it, and the same practitioners stay on the account after launch rather than handing it to a support tier.
01 / How this room works
Ten people who have done this before.
Most studios sell you the founders and staff you with whoever is free. We do not have that gap to hide, because the bench is small enough that the person who scoped your engagement is the person building it.
It also means we turn work down. A studio this size can only hold a certain number of engagements at the standard we have set, and the honest version of that is saying no rather than quietly stretching.
02 / The bench
Senior hands, on every engagement.
David Keyes
Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Positioning, creative direction, and the final call on the work
Started in design at sixteen and has not stopped since. Runs the strategy engagements himself and holds the line on the bold idea when the room gets nervous.
Name Pending
Director of Brand Strategy
Research, positioning, and messaging architecture
PLACEHOLDER. Two sentences on what this person owns and the thing they are unreasonable about. Written in the collective voice, never in first person.
Name Pending
Design Director
Identity systems and the interface layer where brand meets product
PLACEHOLDER. Two sentences on what this person owns and the thing they are unreasonable about.
Name Pending
Engineering Lead
Platform architecture, performance, and what happens after launch
PLACEHOLDER. Two sentences on what this person owns and the thing they are unreasonable about.
Name Pending
Director of Growth
Search authority, content, and paid media held to what it returns
PLACEHOLDER. Two sentences on what this person owns and the thing they are unreasonable about.
Name Pending
Producer
Scope, schedule, and the reason nothing arrives as a surprise
PLACEHOLDER. Two sentences on what this person owns and the thing they are unreasonable about.
04 / The rest of the bench
Dogs of HAUS.
They hold no billable hours and attend every meeting. We are told this is normal for the role.
Name Pending
Head of Morale
PLACEHOLDER. One line. Something true and slightly undignified.
Belongs to David
Name Pending
Director of Interruptions
PLACEHOLDER. One line. Attends every call, contributes to none.
Belongs to the studio
Name Pending
Quality Assurance
PLACEHOLDER. One line. Tests every chair before it is approved for use.
Belongs to the studio
Name Pending
Chief of Security
PLACEHOLDER. One line. Barks at the postal service, sleeps through everything else.
Belongs to the studio
05 / Joining
We hire rarely, and slowly.
There is no open call. When a seat opens it is posted, and it stays open until the right person turns up rather than until the quarter ends. If that sounds like the kind of place you have been looking for, introduce yourself.
Now you know who is building it.
Tell us what you are working on. You will hear back from one of the people on this page, not from a form.