Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an in-house team of designers and video creatives.
• Set a strategic creative direction across campaigns, launches, events, digital, social, and executive communications.
• Provide artistic direction and guidance to team members to ensure consistency and alignment with brand standards.
• Raise the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the Elastic brand.
• Translate complex technical concepts into engaging creative for developers, practitioners, and enterprise buyers.
• Review and provide clear feedback on all creative materials to ensure they meet Elastic’s standards for quality, accuracy, and brand consistency.
• Build efficient creative processes that help the team move faster without sacrificing quality.
• Partner closely with marketing, product, executives, and agencies to deliver strategic creative.
• Champion experimentation, AI-powered workflows, and modern creative practices.
• Manage relationships with external creative agencies and media partners to ensure high-quality execution of deliverables

Requirements

• Experience leading in-house creative teams, ideally in B2B technology.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong brand thinking and execution.
• Deep understanding of technical audiences and enterprise marketing.
• Ability to balance creative innovation with operational discipline.
• Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to continuously evolve how creative work gets done.

Preferred

Benefits

• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings