AI Creative Lead at Nextiva | Scottsdale, AZ

Nextiva

AI Creative Lead

Scottsdale, AZ (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive AI-first creative leadership and scalable brand work, owning both team leadership and process invention to produce high-quality marketing assets at volume.

Lead the creative team to design and deliver high-quality marketing assets across landing pages, ads, email, and video.
Must-have: Proven creative leadership with hands-on work in marketing or brand and experience using AI tools like Cursor and Claude.
Standout: Build scalable, AI-driven workflows that multiply output without growing headcount while expanding the brand system.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Design and produce high-quality creative across marketing. Execute on landing pages, campaign creative, digital ads, email, video, and brand moments. Stay close to the work. Concept it, review it, and push it until it meets the bar..
Build AI-first creative workflows. Redesign how creative gets produced — from ideation through final delivery. Use AI for concepting, copywriting, and creative exploration. Use AI to build and ship pages, assets, and tools. Automate the repetitive production work — ad variations, asset resizing, template-based builds — so the team spends its time on creative decisions, not mechanical ones.
Manage and develop the creative team. Run the team day-to-day with a strong player-coach approach. Manage and assign work, unblock people, and keep projects on track. Onboard the team to AI-native tools and processes. Set the expectation that AI-generated work is the starting point, not the finish line and show them what it looks like to refine it to a high standard.
Define what great AI-assisted creative looks like. Document workflows, prompts, and patterns that produce consistently strong results. Share them across the team and the broader marketing org. Raise the bar for everyone, not just your direct reports.
Steward and expand the brand. We've recently launched a new brand identity. You'll be responsible for maintaining it, enforcing consistency as it rolls out across more surfaces, and expanding the system with considered, tasteful additions as needs arise. New templates, new asset types, new channels — all should feel like they belong to the same brand.
Connect creative output to business results. Partner with growth, demand gen, and product marketing to ensure creative work drives awareness, engagement, and pipeline. Use performance data to refine direction. Balance speed and experimentation with intentional quality.
Scale creative output without scaling the team. Create repeatable, AI-driven processes for producing brand-consistent creative at volume. The goal is to multiply what a small team can deliver — more campaigns, more channels, more variations — without adding headcount. Define review standards, asset templates, and production workflows that make this possible.

Requirements

Proven creative leadership in a marketing, brand, or agency environment — you've led teams and stayed hands-on in the work
Strong design taste and visual judgment — you know what great looks like and you push until you get there
Fluency in Cursor and Claude as primary creative tools — you use them daily to build, not just brainstorm
Experience producing marketing creative: landing pages, digital ads, campaign assets, brand design, video
A portfolio of functioning projects you've built with AI tools — not static mockups or visual comps. We want to see working landing pages, live tools, shipped creative, or interactive prototypes. Show us what you've made that actually runs.
Comfort working in code — you don't need to be an engineer, but you can build and ship a working page in Cursor without one
A builder mindset — you improve systems and processes, not just individual deliverables
Clear communication and the ability to take creative direction from senior leadership and translate it into team execution
Comfort moving fast, iterating in the open, and treating feedback as fuel

Preferred

Experience working within an established brand system — maintaining consistency, extending it thoughtfully, and knowing when to push boundaries vs. hold the line
Familiarity with design systems, tokens, or component libraries
Background in B2B SaaS, tech, or high-growth environments
Experience evaluating and adopting new creative technology for a team
Interest in motion design, video production, or interactive storytelling

Benefits

Health: Multiple health plan options to suit your needs, including medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine coverage
Insurance: Life, disability, and supplemental indemnity plans
⚖️ Work-Life Balance: Flexible Time Off for salaried employees, PTO for hourly employees, Paid Sick Time, Paid Parental Bonding Leave, and holiday pay
Financial Security: 401(k) with company match, Health Savings Accounts with company contributions, Dependent Care FSA
‍ Wellness: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and comprehensive wellness initiatives
Growth: Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement

Nextiva

4.1 Glassdoor

Build amazing customer experiences with Nextiva’s AI-powered platform.Nextiva powers 100,000+ businesses and billions of interactions annually with its customer experience platform. From one AI-powered conversation hub, Nextiva transforms how businesses engage with their customers. The company’s commitment to Amazing Service® and a customer-focused approach has been its cornerstone. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nextiva secured $200M from Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its initial funding round, valuing the company at $2.7B in late 2021.

Founded in 2008

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

1.6K employees (95 in marketing)

www.nextiva.com

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