Creative Director

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$165K/yr – $225K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own the creative direction and team mastery for high impact campaigns with a strong eye on business outcomes, blending craft with scalable processes and evolving AI-enabled workflows.

  • Creative leadership: set and defend the concept vision across multiple campaigns with a clear tie to strategy and sales impact.
  • Team ownership: lead and grow a ~7 person creative group from ideation through delivery, balancing hands on work and mentorship.
  • Production & collaboration: align with strategy, accounts, and production on pre through post stages and integrate AI tools to speed quality and keep work ahead of trends.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set the creative vision across multiple campaigns, ensuring concepts are strategically sound and visually compelling
  • Lead a ~7-person creative team, guiding them from idea to execution.
  • Manage creative team staffing, performance standards, and growth.
  • Balance big-picture thinking with hands-on creative work in writing, art, or design
  • Partner closely with strategy, accounts, and production teams to align creative with business objectives
  • Oversee all stages of production—pre-production, on-set, and post—collaborating with directors and content creators
  • Ensure work meets commercial goals while maintaining creative excellence
  • Present concepts and work to internal teams and clients with clarity and confidence
  • Actively integrate AI tools into workflows to enhance speed, quality, and innovation
  • Keep current with trends in design, culture, and technology to keep Pixel’s work fresh and competitive

Requirements

  • 7+ years in creative leadership roles at agencies, studios, or brand teams
  • Proven commercial track record, campaigns that meet sales goals while resonating culturally
  • Strong portfolio spanning digital, social, video, and print, with social-first storytelling experience
  • Willing to travel to SF or NYC once a month and as needed for shoots
  • Camera and content creation fluency (gear, workflows, creator culture)
  • Hands-on expertise in at least one creative craft (writing, art direction, or design)
  • Demonstrated leadership in managing multiple concurrent campaigns and mentoring teams
  • Significant on-set production experience, comfortable collaborating with directors and talent
  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Google Workspace; familiarity with project management tool
  • AI-positive mindset with a clear vision for how AI can enhance creative processes
  • SF or NYC-based with US work authorization

Preferred

  • Passion for film, cinema, editing, and photography
  • Experience in the consumer electronics industry

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, vision coverage
  • One Medical membership
  • 401k with company match
  • 20 PTO days + 4 remote “Work From Anywhere” weeks
  • 1-month sabbatical every 4 years
  • 8 weeks parental leave
  • Fitness, home office, and education stipends
  • Charitable gift matching
Pixel logo

Pixel

Pixel helps global brands like Canon, Panasonic and JBL bring their most innovative products to market.

Founded in 2014
Brooklyn, New York, USA
373 employees (165 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~373

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
66 (18% of company)

Recent News