Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior creative authority for the program, providing vision, direction, and quality oversight across all creative disciplines.
• Develop and enforce visual identity standards, ensuring consistency across digital, print, video, and experiential content.
• Provide hands-on creative direction for campaigns, graphics, animations, multimedia storytelling, and high-profile communication products.
• Guide the design and review of complex creative outputs including brand assets, multimedia packages, templates, and high-impact presentations.
• Ensure all creative work aligns with accessibility standards (Section 508/WCAG), federal guidelines, and organizational quality requirements.
• Collaborate with UX, content, data, and digital teams to ensure creative solutions support user experience and mission outcomes.
• Mentor designers, videographers, editors, and multimedia staff to elevate overall creative performance.
• Lead creative reviews, provide constructive direction, and approve final deliverables.
• Support rapid-turn content development for high-visibility initiatives.
• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on design trends, tools, and immersive technologies applicable to federal communications.

Requirements

• - Proven experience in creative leadership, multimedia production, visual communications, art direction, or related fields.
• - Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality creative work for complex organizations or public-facing programs.
• - Experience guiding multidisciplinary creative teams and providing expert-level design direction.
• - Mastery of design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere).
• - Strong knowledge of multimedia production workflows and creative asset management.
• - Deep understanding of branding, accessibility, layout, typography, and visual storytelling.
• - Experience developing creative standards, templates, and repeatable design systems.
• - Experience supporting federal, DoD, or large-scale communications programs.
• - Familiarity with immersive technologies (AR/VR), motion graphics, and high-end multimedia production.
• - Exceptional creative leadership and vision.

Preferred

• - Experience developing creative standards, templates, and repeatable design systems.
• - Familiarity with immersive technologies (AR/VR), motion graphics, and high-end multimedia production.

Benefits

• Family & parental support
• - 12 weeks’ full pay for Primary Carers and 6 weeks for Secondary Carers (after one year of service; return requirements apply for subsequent leave)
• - Applies to birth, adoption, and surrogacy
• - Up to 10 days’ paid fertility leave per year (5 per cycle)
• - 2 days’ paid leave for new grandparents
• - $2,500 annual interest-free parental loan
• - $6,000 interest-free fertility treatment loan
• Healthcare & wellbeing
• - Three medical plans (HSA at $0 cost; EPO 75% employer funded; PPO 65% employer funded)
• - $0 employee-cost dental and vision
• - 10 days’ health leave per year (mental and physical)
• - 24/7 mental health support through Self Space