Creative Director (remote US)

USA (Remote)

$120K/yr – $160K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative function for DTC brands, balancing brand vision with performance outcomes while leading internal and external resources and shaping guidelines.

  • Own creative strategy and governance across brand concepts, ensuring quality and consistency for both in-house and partner work.
  • Balance design vision with business priorities, aligning UI/UX and performance metrics to beat CTR, CVR, and ROAS benchmarks for direct-to-consumer channels.
  • Evolve brand guidelines and process while coaching the team and staying current with industry trends.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leads creative function for Direct-to-Consumer brands and channels, working as both an individual contributor, as well as a manager of internal and external resources.
  • Ensures a high standard and quality of work, delivering on consistency in brand look, feel, and experience, regardless of assigned resource; provide creative quality control over concepts and execution.
  • Assigns requested work to the appropriate resource based on project needs, and inspires excellence in outcome by providing direction and constructive feedback, while meeting the needs of the requesting partners
  • Lead the creation, execution, and continual evolution of brand guidelines.
  • Identify opportunities to improve creative output and process, and provide recommendations to develop the creative team to meet future demands.
  • Helps the team balance creative vision with business objectives and priorities.
  • Works closely with the Brand and Platform teams to develop and interpret a clear creative vision.
  • Attends meetings, handle cross-team interaction, pitch concepts in a compelling manner; communicate and monitor project progress.
  • Stays up to date with new innovations and industry trends.
  • Trains and support team members in developing and deepening their technical skills.

Requirements

  • Portfolio demonstrating performance-driven digital and e-commerce creative required
  • 8+ years experience in graphic design and/or interactive design with at least 3 years of experience working with a focus on an e-commerce and/or performance marketing design.
  • 3+ years experience managing both internal and external resources to hit quality, budget and timeline requirements.
  • Expertise with Adobe and Canva’s full suite of creative tools (or similar)
  • Expertise with (and enthusiasm for) leveraging AI creative tools (e.g. Sora, Nano Banana) for concepting and refining designs.
  • Proven ability to influence stakeholders and align creative strategy with business goals
  • Understanding best practices for performance-focused digital marketing creative
  • Staying up on industry trends around best UI and UX practices and what drives design performance (e.g., CTR, CVR, ROAS) in a direct-to-consumer environment
  • Empathy for our end consumer, always thinking about design as a visual medium for communication.
  • Ability to both create and evaluate design and copy
  • Solutions-oriented and collaborative approach

Benefits

  • comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
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