Creative Director, Growth

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$180K/yr – $220K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and guide the end-to-end creative strategy for growth, balancing brand integrity with performance and developing franchises around existing products.

  • Lead creative direction across growth initiatives to raise the bar for storytelling, design, and quality across outputs.
  • Build creative franchises around existing rugs to keep the assortment feeling fresh and culturally relevant.
  • Collaborate with Growth Marketing and external partners to ensure craft, effectiveness, and originality across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative direction across growth initiatives by establishing a high bar for storytelling, design, writing, relevance, and quality across all outputs.
  • Develop breakout creative work that supports our existing rug assortment and turns individual rugs and collections into franchises with their own recognizable identity and staying power.
  • Own creative strategy across performance marketing creative, wholesale creative, and all evergreen storytelling, ensuring a consistent creative point of view across every channel and partner.
  • Translate business objectives, audience insights, and performance learnings into clear creative direction and breakthrough ideas.
  • Develop concepts and narratives that scale globally while remaining relevant to local audiences and cultural contexts.
  • Partner closely with Growth Marketing to shape briefs, identify opportunities, and define creative approaches that balance experimentation with brand integrity.
  • Serve as the primary creative point of contact for external agencies, production partners, and creators, setting direction, providing feedback, and ensuring work meets Ruggable's standards for craft, effectiveness, and originality.
  • Help evolve creative processes, frameworks, and systems that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality.
  • Identify patterns in testing, audience behavior, and campaign performance to inform future creative decisions and experimentation.
  • Collaborate closely with designers, writers, motion teams, producers, and strategists to bring integrated ideas to life.

Requirements

  • Have 10+ years of experience in creative roles, including experience leading multidisciplinary work across social and growth.
  • Bring demonstrated expertise in social first creative, with a deep understanding of how ideas translate across platforms, audiences, and evolving behaviors. You know what makes work resonate in feed and how to balance native platform instincts with brand objectives.
  • Have experience building creative franchises around existing products, not just launching new ones, and know how to keep an established assortment feeling fresh and culturally relevant.
  • Are a true creative generalist who can think strategically while maintaining strong instincts for execution and craft.
  • Have a portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative judgment and leadership across a variety of channels and formats.
  • Are comfortable using data, testing, and audience insights to sharpen creative thinking without becoming constrained by them.
  • Have experience working with and directing agencies, and know how to get the best out of external partners.
  • Thrive in fast moving environments and don't see speed as a trade off for quality.
  • Are comfortable developing performance marketing creative, wholesale creative, and long form YouTube content, all under one creative vision.
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Ruggable

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Founded by Jeneva Bell, Ruggable® makes home textiles that are design-forward, while at the same time durable, stain-resistant, and machine washable. Ruggable® offers this unmatched functionality in a wide range of elevated designs and collaborations with beloved brands. Ruggable® launched in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada in 2017 and is now available in the UK, Germany, Austria, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Finland).

Founded in 2017
Gardena, California, USA
455 employees (109 in marketing)
48% recommend to a friend
36% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$286.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17.4%
Direct
39%
Referral
2.3%
Social
4.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~455

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
52 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
1.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Seed, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2018
    Seed
  • Jun 2017
    Seed

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