Creative Director

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$235K/yr – $305K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Glossier’s creative vision and brand storytelling at a senior level, shaping multi-channel campaigns and a cohesive visual identity.

  • Own the overarching creative direction across all channels for a cohesive Glossier brand.
  • Lead 360° campaigns from concept through delivery across digital, retail, social, and experiential.
  • Standout: 10+ years in creative roles with 4+ years in senior creative leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve Glossier’s overarching creative direction across all channels, ensuring a cohesive and elevated brand experience
  • Build efficient, scalable systems across campaigns, content, and launches
  • Lead the development and execution of 360° campaigns, from concept through final delivery across digital, retail, social, and experiential
  • Partner with Product and Marketing to bring launches to life through compelling storytelling and visual identity
  • Translate cultural insights and community signals into fresh, relevant concepts that push the brand forward, while establishing and upholding creative standards that ensure all work is on-brand, best-in-class, and emotionally resonant
  • Establish and codify ownable brand assets and visual systems that make Glossier instantly recognizable across any touchpoint
  • Act as the ultimate steward of brand distinctiveness, ensuring the work is not just beautiful, but unmistakably Glossier
  • Brings an editorial point of view including a strong perspective on taste, culture, and curation
  • Build scalable creative systems, toolkits, and guidelines that empower teams to execute at a high bar globally
  • Create culturally defining brand moments, products, and symbols that become synonymous with Glossier

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in creative roles within beauty, fashion, lifestyle, or adjacent consumer categories, including 4+ years in senior creative leadership
  • Proven track record of developing and executing breakthrough creative work that builds brand equity and drives cultural relevance
  • Experience leading and developing creative teams, particularly through periods of change, transformation, or rebuilding
  • Exceptional people leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and elevate a team while balancing empathy and accountability
  • Strong creative vision and taste, with the ability to translate abstract ideas into compelling, tangible outputs that are unexpected yet uniquely Glossier
  • Experience overseeing multi-channel creative execution, including digital, social, and experiential
  • Highly collaborative, with experience partnering cross-functionally across Marketing, Product, and Brand
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to flex style and approach based on audience
  • Deep understanding of the Glossier brand, customer, and community, with a passion for creating magic that is both meaningful and enduring
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, with the ability to bring structure and clarity without stifling creativity

Preferred

    Benefits

    • medical health insurance, 401K, equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units, Paid Time Off, Short Term and Long Term Disability leave, and a range of other benefits.
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    Glossier

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    Here at Glossier, beauty is about you. From our formulas to packaging, playful shades to seriously-great skincare—Glossier was built to make beauty accessible and uncomplicated. Before we launched Glossier in 2014, we started as Into The Gloss. A beauty website and community devoted to sharing real information with real people, about really amazing products. It’s where we realized that beauty shouldn’t be built in a boardroom—it should be built by you. This ethos gave birth to our philosophy: Skin First. Makeup SecondTM. We prioritize skincare because we believe that healthy skin is the best foundation.We believe in thoughtful design and cultivating conversations. It’s at the core of everything we do—the starting point of all our makeup, skincare, bodycare, and fragrance products. At Glossier, beauty is about celebrating freedom of expression, individuality , and having fun. Our Skin First. Makeup SecondTM approach ensures that every product supports your skin’s health, allowing your makeup to enhance rather than mask your natural beauty.

    Founded in 2014
    New York, New York, USA
    575 employees (193 in marketing)
    43% recommend to a friend
    70% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    2.2M
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $43.8K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    39.9%
    Direct
    52%
    Referral
    3.6%
    Social
    3.4%
    Paid
    0.9%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~566

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    164 (29% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    11 years
    Median Tenure
    4.5 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    2

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $266.4M
    Last Raise
    $80M
    Series E, 5 years ago

    Funding History

    • Jul 2021
      Series E • $80M
    • Mar 2019
      Series D • $100M
    • Feb 2018
      Series C • $52M

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