Creative Director

Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)

$145K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and elevate brand visuals across campaigns, events, and client-facing work by shaping the creative strategy, design systems, and production standards that translate complex financial content into clear, accessible visuals.

  • Own the creative direction and production quality across campaigns, digital content, events, and client-facing materials.
  • Translate investment and market content into visual stories that resonate with defined audiences and channels.
  • Lead with design systems and scalable craft to balance ambition with compliance and business impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative direction and design execution for the firm's visual identity across campaigns, thought leadership, product and capability marketing, digital and social content, executive communications, events, activation experiences, and client-facing materials.
  • Translate complex investment, market, and business content into compelling visual stories and design solutions that are clear, differentiated, accessible, and relevant to client needs.
  • Provide hands-on art direction, design review, and design support for priority work, ensuring creative is visually strong, strategically grounded, compliant, and ready for market.
  • Direct integrated creative from concept through final production, bringing strong production judgment across print, digital, presentation, video, event, experiential, and branded merchandise work.
  • Shape event materials and activation experiences so the brand shows up consistently and memorably across conferences, sponsorships, meetings, and client engagements.
  • Establish and maintain design standards, templates, systems, and creative resources that help teams execute with consistency, efficiency, and a high level of craft.
  • Guide internal designers, writers, multimedia partners, agencies, freelancers, vendors, and production partners with clear, actionable creative direction.
  • Partner with Brand, Product Marketing, Segment Marketing, Digital Marketing, Corporate Communications, Compliance, and senior leaders to align creative work with business priorities and audience needs.
  • Present creative concepts and rationale to stakeholders, articulating how design choices support the brand, the audience, the channel, and the desired business outcome.
  • Stay current on creative, design, production, accessibility, and emerging technology practices, including AI-enabled workflows and scalable content tools that can improve quality, speed, and impact.

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.6M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.2%
Direct
55.2%
Referral
23.3%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~822

Marketing Team

Median Career Experience
22 years
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

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