Associate Director, Creative

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$175K/yr – $220K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own Notability\'s brand and creative direction, lead strategy, agency management, and end-to-end campaign development across channels, while collaborating with design leadership to unify brand, marketing, and product expression.

  • Own day-to-day agency relationship and briefs
  • Direct campaigns from concept to delivery with a focus on scalable brand systems

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand & Creative Strategy
  • Define and evolve Notability's creative direction: visual identity, tone, and expression across marketing channels.
  • Translate business and campaign goals into clear creative concepts, and ensure consistency across every brand-facing touchpoint.
  • Ensure the brand identity system scales across future channels, campaigns, and media.
  • Partner closely with the Director of Design to keep brand, marketing, and product expression unified, jointly shaping the visual language they share.
  • Agency Management
  • Own the day-to-day relationship with our external creative agency.
  • Write creative briefs that translate campaign goals and brand strategy into clear, actionable direction for the agency.
  • Direct the work, review and approve creative output, and manage priorities and sequencing. The agency produces; you set the bar and hold it.
  • Campaign Creative

Requirements

  • 6–8 years in brand, creative, or integrated marketing, with meaningful time in a consumer or DTC context
  • Proven track record managing external creative agencies: directing, reviewing, and holding a high craft bar across deliverables
  • Experienced brief writer. You can translate a business objective into a creative direction a team can actually execute against
  • Strong creative instincts with the ability to articulate rationale to non-designers and connect creative decisions to business outcomes
  • Fluency across brand identity, campaign creative, and social/content, with the judgment to keep them cohesive
  • Experience collaborating with paid performance teams and keeping up with evolving creative requirements across paid platforms
  • Experience in cross-functional leadership with design teams, including bringing a shared visual identity to life alongside a peer design leader
  • Comfortable operating without a fully established playbook. This function is still being built

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation that includes base salary, bonuses and profit sharing
  • Equity Awards in the form of Stock Options
  • Comprehensive healthcare fully covered for you and your family including medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible work and vacation schedules
  • 401k with matching contributions
  • Matching gifts to nonprofits
  • Lunch Stipend (When Working from HQ)
  • Public transit stipend
  • Home workstation reimbursement
  • ISP stipend
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Notability

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We build simple, powerful tools that help people work better, smarter. We’re building the next generation of tools designed not just to capture notes, but to fundamentally improve how people learn, think, and collaborate. Our app brings the natural expressiveness of paper into the digital age, empowering millions of students, educators, and professionals worldwide to organize their ideas, deepen their understanding, and achieve their goals. Our mission is simple: we help you learn.

Founded in 2008
San Francisco, California, USA
101 employees (15 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.6%
Direct
36.7%
Referral
5.2%
Social
1.4%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~101

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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