Creative Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$155K/yr – $185K/yrSenior Level10+ years expEmployee Regular/Permanent

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and elevate Bumble's creative direction across markets, leading a design-driven team from ideation to production, aligning with strategic goals and timelines.

  • Define bold creative strategies and ensure they translate across funnel stages
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and agencies
  • Mentor and grow the creative team to sustain high-quality output

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the creative function
  • Bring a strong and informed decision on what effective creative looks like at each stage of the funnel and translate high-level ideas and inspiration into clear, bold, executable creative strategies.
  • Steward Brand Identity and creative guidelines across multiple markets.
  • Challenge briefs and proactively drive the creative work forward to improve quality, bringing diverse stakeholders on the journey with you.
  • Act as a key partner to the CEO, who will lead on brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas that can become impactful executions. You will play a pivotal role in elevating the creative ideation and campaign development to the next level.
  • Lead the team by example by being on the tools creating the work yourself, as well as reviewing the work of others.
  • Partner with internal teams and agency resources to drive high-quality creative work that is aligned with strategic goals and timelines.
  • Oversee and manage creative team projects supporting marketing, partnership, experiential, and digital activations, driving impactful growth.
  • Lead the team to deliver creative excellence from ideation to production, ensuring adherence to requested deliverables, timelines and budgets.
  • Manage, motivate and mentor team members to perform highly and grow professionally.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Creative experience: Ideally the candidate will be from a design background with exceptional craft skills, but also be able to create brilliant conceptual ideas.
  • Strong leadership skills with a high level of emotional intelligence to inspire and manage creative teams in dynamic environments.
  • You have great communication skills, both verbal and written, and are confident presenting and explaining your creative decisions to stakeholders.
  • A bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation—and comfortable leading teams through it
  • Experience introducing new tools, processes, workflows or technologies to improve creative output
  • You have an expert command of creative tools: Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, and embracing the future; you're comfortable exploring emerging tools, and leveraging AI to help drive efficiencies.
  • Solid knowledge of motion principles and best practices.
  • Solid understanding of the digital, video, social, and content space
  • History of successful delivery of impactful creative on time and within budget

Benefits

  • Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
  • Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
  • Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
  • Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
  • Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
  • Premium App Access
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Bumble Inc.

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Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

Founded in 2014
Austin, Texas, USA
1.1K employees (161 in marketing)
45% recommend to a friend
43% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.2%
Direct
74.1%
Referral
1.4%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
128 (11% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$313.5M
Last Raise
$313.5M
Post IPO Secondary, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Secondary • $313.5M
  • Sep 2021
    Post IPO Equity
  • Mar 2020
    Series A

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