Creative Director

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$207K/yr – $285K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead Motive's global creative function, owning brand vision and multi-disciplinary campaigns from concept to delivery, while building and scaling a high-performing, AI-enabled creative team across regions.

  • Own creative strategy and brand systems across channels
  • Develop managers and grow a cross-region creative team
  • Drive integrated work spanning copy, video, design, and digital experiences

Job Description

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in creative, brand, or agency roles, including significant experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams.
  • Real people leadership experience, including managing managers and building and growing a creative team.
  • Deep understanding of copy, video, and design, with a track record of leading integrated work across all three, plus experience guiding creative for web and digital experiences.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating world-class brand, campaign, video, and integrated marketing work, including large-scale brand moments such as conferences, launches, or events.
  • Experience owning the creative vision for major brand moments from concept through delivery, working with internal teams and external partners.
  • An AI-forward mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools to improve creative workflows, paired with sound judgment about craft and brand integrity.
  • Comfort working at a fast pace and managing multiple high-priority projects while keeping quality high.
  • Proven experience leading and developing creative teams across regions or time zones.
  • Experience building or evolving brand systems and scalable creative processes, with fluency in collaborative tools like Figma.
  • Strong conceptual thinking paired with exceptional attention to craft and detail.

Benefits

  • Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
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Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. We serve nearly 100,000 customers, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, energy, trucking and logistics, and the public sector, among others.Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.

Founded in 2013
San Francisco, California, USA
5.5K employees (171 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$207K/yr – $285K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Creative median pay in the United States

$109K/yr

Most pay falls between $83K and $155K. Based on 2,583 salaries.

See all Motive salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$717.3M
Last Raise
$150M
Series Unknown, 8 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Series Unknown • $150M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market
  • May 2022
    Series F • $150M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$141.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.3%
Direct
69.9%
Referral
4.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K
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Creative Director

Motive · San Francisco, CA · On-site