Responsibilities

• Lead Creative Direction & Design Excellence - Serve as the Communications Division's senior creative leader, establishing a compelling creative vision for how the Foundation's brand is expressed across every audience touchpoint.
• Provide executive creative direction across campaigns, storytelling, digital experiences, exhibitions, activations, environmental design, and emerging brand experiences.
• Champion exceptional visual craft and design quality, ensuring all work reflects world-class standards of creativity, accessibility, and audience-centered design.
• Steward the Foundation's visual identity and creative expression while encouraging thoughtful innovation that keeps the brand culturally relevant.
• Build Creative Excellence & Organizational Capability - Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of creative producers, story developers, and visual and experiential designers responsible for creating and delivering world-class creative work across the Foundation's stories, brand experiences, exhibitions, activations, and communications.
• Lead creative excellence across the full creative lifecycle—from ideation and creative development through design, production, and execution—ensuring every output reflects exceptional strategic thinking, craft, audience relevance, and brand quality.
• Build long-term internal creative capability by strengthening creative leadership, design judgment, storytelling, production expertise , and multidisciplinary collaboration across the team.
• Foster a culture of creative excellence through rigorous critique, continuous learning, experimentation, and operating models that enable consistently outstanding creative work.
• Champion the Global Brand Strategy - Steward the Foundation's brand positioning, creative platform, audience strategy, and brand architecture across all public communications.
• Lead the continued evolution and implementation of the Gates Foundation's global brand strategy to build trust, increase care for our mission, and strengthen public understanding of who we are and why we do our work.

Requirements

• 12+ years leading brand, creative, and design within global nonprofits, media companies, agencies, technology firms, consumer brands, or mission-driven organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary creative teams spanning brand strategy, visual design, storytelling, creative production, experiential design, and content development.
• Deep expertise in brand visual systems, creative governance, and design leadership across digital, physical, environmental, and experiential applications.
• Exceptional creative judgment with the ability to evaluate, critique, and elevate design work across multiple disciplines.
• Experience establishing creative vision while empowering teams and partners to deliver outstanding work.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow designers, storytellers, producers, and creative leaders.
• Experience commissioning , directing, and managing world-class creative agencies, design consultancies, exhibit designers, filmmakers, photographers, and other specialist partners .
• Experience planning and managing a complex creative budget.
• Strong understanding of audience-centered design, behavioral insights, storytelling, and experience design.
• Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional initiatives within highly matrixed global organizations.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• generous paid time off
• paid family leave
• foundation-paid retirement contribution
• regional holidays
• opportunities to engage in several employee communities