Creative Director

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$190K/yr – $225K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive and elevate UnitedMasters’ creative across multi-channel marketing to build artist trust and scale impact.

  • Must-have: 6+ years leading marketing creative, in-house or at an agency
  • Standout: Build and scale a high-performing design org with processes and tooling
  • Standout: Enable cross-functional alignment with Product, Marketing, and Brand

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and elevate the UnitedMasters creative vision, ensuring brand, design, and messaging resonate deeply with independent artists and drive connection and trust
  • Evolve and enforce the brand system (in partnership with Translation), delivering clear, differentiated positioning and consistent yet channel-optimized expression across all touchpoints
  • Lead end-to-end creative for Marketing, owning production across campaigns and channels including web, digital, email, social, and events
  • Develop and direct market leading social content series that create opportunities to showcase our artists and grow audience reach and engagement across UnitedMasters channels
  • Partner across Marketing (brand, growth, product, social, lifecycle) to deliver best-in-class creative that is both emotionally compelling and performance-driven
  • Champion a data-first creative approach, using insights to inform strategy, measure impact, and continuously optimize output
  • Build and scale a high-performing design org with strong processes, tools, and operations to meet evolving business needs
  • Drive cross-functional alignment with Product Design, Marketing, Artist Marketing, and Brand & Partnerships to ensure cohesive, high-quality creative across channels
  • Partner with Translation to align on overarching brand direction and unlock opportunities for breakthrough, integrated creative
  • Hire, lead, and develop a world-class creative team (in-house and freelance), aligning resourcing to both immediate priorities and long-term growth

Requirements

  • 6+ years experience leading marketing creative, in-house and/or at an agency
  • Proven experience defining or evolving brand identity (including branding, style guide, creative toolkit, brand voice/messaging guidelines)
  • Experience building creative for multi-channel campaigns (paid social, digital banners, email, OOH, etc), with strong emphasis on digital/performance marketing

Nice To Have

  • Portfolio of impactful, multi-channel campaigns required

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
942 (61% of company)

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