Creative Director at Artsy | London, UK | £110K/yr – £130K/yr

Artsy

Creative Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

£110K/yr – £130K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand architecture and visuals for Artsy and Artnet by turning strategy into scalable systems and leading a small team to ship across digital and experiential touchpoints.

Own brand evolution across customer touchpoints with brand systems that ensure consistency and emotional resonance.
Build AI-enabled workflows and scalable design frameworks so product, growth, and content move with speed and clarity.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Lead the evolution of Artsy and Artnet’s brand and visual identity across all customer touchpoints, ensuring consistency, clarity, and creative distinction
Develop scalable creative systems and design frameworks that enable efficient execution across channels and teams
Shape and articulate Artsy and Artnet’s broader brand strategy, including positioning, storytelling, and visual expression
Partner closely with Product, Growth Marketing, and Content teams to bring the brand to life in cohesive and collaborative ways
Lead a small creative team, setting clear direction and priorities, establishing effective ways of working, thoughtfully planning resources, and ensuring high-quality execution
Build scalable creative systems, design frameworks, and AI-enabled workflows so the team and the wider org move with clarity, brand unity, and speed.
Grow a small team of 1-2 brand designers while directing contractors, freelancers, and creative partners, and working closely with Product Design
This role is a combination of three things: Strategy — you shape brand positioning and architecture; Craft — you have strong creative direction and cultural fluency. You make work that’s distinctive and emotionally resonant, and you can cast and direct the photographers, designers, and collaborators who help produce it; Systems — you externalize your judgment into direction, principles, and systems so quality holds across a team through clear direction, scalable design systems, and AI-enabled workflows.

Requirements

3 days a week in the office (hybrid role based in London or NYC)
Significant experience leading brand and visual identity work for consumer-facing companies, agencies, or culturally relevant brands
Have worked both in-house and at agencies or brand studios—you’ve seen multiple brands and owned outcomes inside a team
Understand and lead on the “why” not just the “what”
Think in systems: you can take intuitive creative judgment and turn it into direction and frameworks others can execute against, without flattening the craft
Are genuinely AI-native — you’re already building AI tools, automation, and modular production into how creative gets made
Led brand-building initiatives across the full brand lifecycle—from defining brand architecture and strategic positioning to developing visual identity systems and bringing them to life through digital and physical/experiential campaigns, content, and activations
You are an excellent communicator who can influence cross-functional partners, align stakeholders, and bring teams along through clear creative direction and storytelling
Work with cross-functional partners, to concept and plan the execution of integrated campaigns and programs across a wide range of media and platforms: digital, print, video, social and content
Craft concepts and partner closely with Product & Product Design to execute across all mediums and audiences including our websites, app, emails, ad campaigns, video and audio, IRL, and more

Nice to have

Have experience working within the art, fashion, marketplace,editorial, media, or broader cultural landscape
Have worked in-house after agency experience, particularly at brand-focused studios or agencies
Have developed multiple buzz-worthy experiential or environmental campaigns with measurable outcomes, tangible delight factor, and cultural relevancy

Benefits

Opportunity to reimagine the art industry while working with a talented, diverse, international team.
Competitive salary and equity
Flexible time off: our culture of trust and empowerment allows employees to take the time they need away from work while still excelling in their roles
We are a global hybrid team: most employees work from our NYC, London, or Berlin offices 3 days per week. (In-person expectations vary by role)
Private healthcare & benefit options, including: medical, dental, enhanced parental leave, Pension Plan, life assurance, Employee Assistance Program featuring free mental health support, physio, and more
Professional development, including: mentoring, lunch & learns, regular training, 1:1 management, and an open feedback culture
Engaging opportunities and internal programming globally, to foster new relationships and build upon our collaborative community. Including: happy hours, holiday parties, global "All Hands" meetings, "Artsy Salon" (a yearly exhibition of our team's creativity), attendance to art world events, and more