Director of Creative

Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

$135K/yr – $155K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the creative direction for a senior client-facing experience platform, shaping strategy and AI-enabled workflows.

  • Lead end-to-end creative delivery across multiple workstreams, partnering with product, strategy, and platform teams.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in design with leadership in creative direction and experience strategy.
  • Standout: Experience applying AI-driven workflows and cross-functional leadership to scale growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative execution and help define the experience vision for a key client relationship and strategic connectivity platform
  • Serve as the senior creative point of contact for internal business leaders and client stakeholders, influencing decisions and building trust
  • Partner with product, strategy, and platform teams to shape experience direction grounded in user insight and business outcomes
  • Ensure high-quality, cohesive creative and drive experimentation and optimization across digital touchpoints
  • Balance user needs, business goals, brand standards, and platform constraints
  • Lead and mentor designers, maintaining a high bar for craft and collaboration
  • Oversee prioritization, resourcing, and delivery across multiple workstreams
  • Partner cross-functionally to implement AI-enabled creative solutions, demonstrating the appetite and ability to apply emerging and agent-based tools
  • Drive implementation of AI workflows across the team, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability
  • Lead high-quality creative delivery while helping shape the broader experience vision and serving as a senior partner to internal leadership and client stakeholders

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in design, with leadership in creative direction and experience strategy
  • Proven ability to lead creative work within large client relationships or product ecosystems, driving successful creative execution across multiple focus areas
  • Proven creative leader with 3+ years of team leadership experience and a track record of mentoring and developing creative talent
  • Strong communication skills, experience building buy-in and partnering with senior stakeholders to shape strategy
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, polished creative expertise, and business impact
  • Expertise translating insights from user research into measurable creative outcomes
  • Fluency in Figma prototyping, design systems, and optimization for engineering and MCP ingestion
  • Experience leveraging AI in product design workflows and fluency in AI-native ways of working
  • Experience collaborating and building with cross-functional leaders to scale business growth

Preferred

  • Experience with high-growth digital platforms or marketplaces
  • Familiarity with connectivity, telecom, utilities, or complex consumer decision journeys
  • Experience applying user research methods to inform product or creative decisions
  • Experience shaping paid media creative strategy

Benefits

  • Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Life Insurance
  • Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Holiday Pay
  • 401(k) with match
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.
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Red Ventures (RV) is home to a diverse portfolio of industry-leading brands and businesses, strategic partnerships, and proprietary technology – including Allconnect, Bankrate, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, BestColleges and more. Together, RV helps millions of people worldwide make life’s most important decisions, accelerates digital adaptation, and innovates the online consumer experience by improving every step of the consumer journey – from first discovery of information, throughout the decision-making process, to transactions. Core to who we are is our focus on giving back. Since 2013, more than 600 Red Ventures employees have volunteered mentorship and skills-training with Road to Hire, a 501(c)(3) founded by CEO Ric Elias, that connects under-resourced young adults from marginalized communities with onramps to life-changing careers through access to paid training, college, and mentorship. Road to Hire programs have supported nearly 2,000 young people on their paths to higher education and career placement. - Learn more about who we are and what we do at www.redventures.com - View career opportunities at www.redventures.com/careers - Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @RedVentures **Please be respectful. Any inappropriate content or anything we deem derogatory, defamatory, hateful, or misinformed in any way in will be deleted.**

Founded in 2000
Fort Mill, SC, US
2.3K employees (283 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
117.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.3%
Direct
48.8%
Referral
26.2%
Social
4.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
202 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$250M
Last Raise
$250M
Private Equity, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2018
    Private Equity
  • Jan 2015
    Private Equity • $250M
  • Aug 2010
    Series Unknown

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