Creative Director, Brand

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$201K/yr – $279K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the Chime brand creative vision and end-to-end campaigns, shaping ideas across channels and mentoring a creative team.

  • Define and elevate brand storytelling across platforms
  • Lead cross-functional campaigns from concept to production
  • Develop and grow in-house creative talent and manage external partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and evolve the creative vision for the Chime brand, and translate it into storytelling that drives awareness and consideration
  • Lead integrated campaigns end to end — from platform and concept through production and final execution — across brand film and broadcast, social, partnerships, activations and owned channels
  • Champion bold ideas, and make the case for them clearly to marketing, product and executive stakeholders
  • Build creative that travels: social-first thinking, talent and partner collaborations, and moments designed to be shared rather than served
  • Partner with brand, growth, product marketing and media leads so that campaign ideas hold up across the full funnel and are measurable against business goals
  • Lead, mentor and grow a team of art directors, designers and copywriters, and set the standard for the quality of work the team ships
  • Run creative reviews and brainstorms that raise the level of the idea, with clear direction and feedback people can act on
  • Manage external creative agencies, production houses, and media and talent partners, and hold them to the same bar
  • Use the tools that make a modern creative team faster — including AI in concepting, iteration and production — and help the team adopt what genuinely works
  • Keep a sharp read on our members, the category and the cultural landscape, and let it shape the work

Requirements

  • 8+ years in creative leadership, including at least 5 leading brand-level work
  • A portfolio of consumer-facing campaigns you can walk us through — the strategic problem, the idea, and what happened
  • At least one brand platform you built or meaningfully shaped that changed how people saw a company
  • Experience in a creative agency environment, and the craft standard that comes with it
  • Work that has run in more than one form: brand film or broadcast produced with agency and production partners, social-native work, and partnership or activation initiatives
  • A track record leading and developing a small in-house creative team, and getting the best out of external partners
  • Fluency across the funnel, including the view that lower-funnel work is a creative problem too
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills — you can sell an idea into a skeptical room and explain why it is right
  • Practical experience using AI tools in the creative process, and a point of view on where they help and where they do not

Benefits

  • 🏢 Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location.
  • 💻 Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
  • ✨ Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
  • 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
  • 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
  • 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
  • - Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
  • - Access to family planning reimbursement
  • 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
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Forerunner is a venture capital firm dedicated to the modern consumer and the ambitious teams reshaping categories. Since our inception in 2012, the consumer has been our North Star. We commit ourselves to having a constant pulse on what people are doing and why via ongoing research, and closely observe how world events shape the way we live.We’ve invested in category-defining companies such as Chime, Faire, OURA, Hims&Hers, The Farmer’s Dog, Glossier, Ritual, and more. With nearly $3 billion in assets under management and hundreds of investments to date, Forerunner is amongst the only women-led venture capital firms to achieve such milestones.

Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, USA
20 employees (2 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$201K/yr – $279K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (10% of company)
Median Tenure
2.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
18

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
52%
Referral
5.7%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~20

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Creative Director, Brand

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