Creative Director — Social-First Beauty & Culture Agency

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own high impact creative leadership across beauty and lifestyle brands while turning briefs into culture-forward concepts that win client belief.

  • Own creative vision across digital, social, influencer, and production streams.
  • Lead concept to delivery, guiding designers and production partners to ensure brand and objective alignment.
  • Stay close to cultural trends and AI-enabled workflows to push boundaries without losing feasibility.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative concepting and design development from brainstorm through client presentation.
  • Own the creative vision across digital, social, experiential, influencer, and content production projects.
  • Translate client briefs into fresh, elevated, culture-forward concepts.
  • Present creative ideas clearly and confidently to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.
  • Oversee the creative process from concept through final delivery, ensuring work meets client objectives and agency standards.
  • Provide leadership and creative direction to designers, art directors, creators, production partners, photographers, and directors.
  • Bring a strong point of view while remaining flexible to client needs, brand codes, and project objectives.
  • Push clients creatively while staying grounded in strategy, feasibility, and brand relevance.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with account, influencer, social, production, and leadership teams.
  • Stay close to cultural movements, visual trends, digital platforms, creator behaviors, and emerging AI tools.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of creative, advertising, or design agency experience at a senior level.
  • 4–5+ years of demonstrated creative leadership experience preferred.
  • Strong background in beauty is essential; fashion, fragrance, wellness, and lifestyle experience are strong pluses.
  • Proven experience leading social-first, digital-first, influencer, content, and campaign creative.
  • Portfolio required, showing a range of relevant creative work and visual thinking.
  • Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate creative concepts to clients.
  • Deep understanding of social platforms, especially Meta, TikTok, creator culture, and digital best practices.
  • Strong design sensibility, visual taste, and ability to work within existing brand codes while pushing creative boundaries.
  • Experience developing creative presentations, preferably in Keynote; Figma experience is a plus.
  • Proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere.
  • Comfort with short-form video or motion storytelling through After Effects or Premiere.
  • Interest in AI tools and creative workflows, including tools such as Midjourney, Claude, ChatGPT, Notion, Artlist, Eagle, Flim, and other emerging platforms.

    Benefits

    • Full-time employees are eligible for health, dental, and vision benefits after 90 days.
    • Vacation eligibility is based on tenure and backdated to the employee’s start date after the initial eligibility period.
    • Candidates should have a strong home working environment, reliable WiFi, and a quiet space for client calls. A laptop and access to company software may be provided.
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    Qulture

    Founded in 2010, our female, minority led and award-winning agency was built for today’s accelerated evolution of culture and technology. Originally known as Moving Image & Content, we decided in July 2022 to evolve and begin a new chapter of our journey as Qulture.Known for being results-oriented, nimble, collaborative and kind, Qulture has become the trusted strategic and marketing partner for iconic brands including Sephora, Kanye West, Prada, H&M, Jaguar, Girls Who Code, and Google. Our leadership team have been featured in TIME, CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes, The Business of Fashion, WWD and more. Our work has been recognized for over six years winning two Clio Awards, two Communicator Awards, a Webby, and the Mashies. Learn More: https://linktr.ee/qultureagency

    Founded in 2010
    New York, New York, USA
    36 employees (13 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    1.1K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    22.7%
    Direct
    56.2%
    Referral
    5.3%
    Social
    14.7%
    Paid
    1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~37

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    6 (17% of company)