Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior creative authority for the program, providing vision, direction, and quality oversight across all creative disciplines.
• Develop and enforce visual identity standards, ensuring consistency across digital, print, video, and experiential content.
• Provide hands-on creative direction for campaigns, graphics, animations, multimedia storytelling, and high-profile communication products.
• Guide the design and review of complex creative outputs including brand assets, multimedia packages, templates, and high-impact presentations.
• Ensure all creative work aligns with accessibility standards (Section 508/WCAG), federal guidelines, and organizational quality requirements.
• Collaborate with UX, content, data, and digital teams to ensure creative solutions support user experience and mission outcomes.
• Mentor designers, videographers, editors, and multimedia staff to elevate overall creative performance.
• Lead creative reviews, provide constructive direction, and approve final deliverables.
• Support rapid-turn content development for high-visibility initiatives.
• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on design trends, tools, and immersive technologies applicable to federal communications.

Requirements

• Proven experience in creative leadership, multimedia production, visual communications, art direction, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality creative work for complex organizations or public-facing programs.
• Experience guiding multidisciplinary creative teams and providing expert-level design direction.
• Mastery of design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere).
• Strong knowledge of multimedia production workflows and creative asset management.
• Deep understanding of branding, accessibility, layout, typography, and visual storytelling.
• Experience developing creative standards, templates, and repeatable design systems.
• Experience supporting federal, DoD, or large-scale communications programs.
• Familiarity with immersive technologies (AR/VR), motion graphics, and high-end multimedia production.
• Exceptional creative leadership and vision.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across diverse teams.
• Ability to produce, review, and refine high-quality creative outputs under tight deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving and conceptual thinking abilities.
• High attention to detail, quality, accessibility, and brand alignment.

Benefits

• Family & parental support
• 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
• Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
• Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
• 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
• $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
• $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
• Healthcare & wellbeing
• Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
• $0 employee-cost dental and vision
• 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)
• 24/7 mental health support through Self Space
• Wellhub subscription
• Financial & practical support
• 401(k) match (3% after 3 months; 4% after 1 year)
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 10 days’ paid military leave
• Full pay for jury duty (state/city payments declined)
• Uber/taxi home after 9:30pm
• Time off & flexibility","23 days’ PTO (with 3 discretionary carryover days; CA/CO policies follow state mandate)","10 federal holidays, plus the day after Thanksgiving","Option to swap 2 federal holidays (excluding Thanksgiving and the day after)","Office closed between Christmas and New Year","10 days’ special emergency leave (including bereavement)","10 days’ volunteering leave (5 paid, 5 unpaid)","Half-day for blood donation","Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks per year (subject to approval)","Culture & development","$300 annual cultural stimulation allowance (accrued monthly; available after 90 days)","Weekly Thursday happy hour","Mentorship and Buddy programmes"],