Creative Lead US

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own North America regional creative as the primary authority, adapting global brand toolkits into localized campaigns across paid, digital, retail, and events, while leading a small team and guiding external agencies.

  • Lead regional creative stewardship and adaptation across NA touchpoints.
  • Collaborate with Global Brand Creative and manage agency partners to ensure brand consistency and timely delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Regional Creative Leadership & Adaptation
  • - Operates as the creative authority for the North America region, ensuring the market has compelling, cut-through creative that is fully localized while maintaining strict consistency with global brand identity and guidelines.
  • - Collaborate closely with the Global Brand Creative team to ensure all North America regional creative executions reflect global brand toolkits, guidelines, and core storytelling.
  • - Lead the adaptation, transcreation, and execution of regional assets across key touchpoints, including paid media, digital/D2C site assets, email, OOH, visual merchandising (VM), retail POS, brand events, and promotional collateral.
  • - Partner closely with regional team leads across Brand, D2C, PR/Events, and Sales to translate commercial objectives and launch priorities into brand-right creative executions.
  • - Stay abreast of North American cultural, competitive, and market nuances to inform regional copy and visual creative output.
  • Team Leadership & Agency Oversight
  • - Direct, mentor, and opportunity to manage 1 direct report, overseeing day-to-day workflow, project prioritization, quality control, and ongoing professional development.
  • - Serve as the creative lead for external agency and production partners on regional initiatives to ensure campaign creative aligns with brand standards, schedules, and budgets.
  • - Manage end-to-end creative routing, review, and asset delivery, ensuring all regional requests are delivered on time and execute flawlessly across channels.

Requirements

  • Regional Creative Stewardship: Solid experience of art direction, digital design, or creative adaptation within the beauty, skincare, or prestige consumer sectors.
  • Adaptation Expertise: Proven track record of taking global master campaign toolkits and successfully adapting, resizing, and transcreating them across diverse regional digital (D2C, web, email, paid social), print, and retail touchpoints.
  • Technical Proficiency: Expert, hands-on mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro) to independently build, resize, and output production-ready assets.
  • Channel Savvy: Deep understanding of North American retail environments (e.g., Sephora, Ulta) and digital performance media specs.
  • People Management & Mentorship: Experience managing or mentoring junior designers, coordinators, or freelancers.
  • Location: NYC-based and comfortable working in a hybrid model (2 fixed days per week in our NYC office space).

Preferred

  • Digital Asset Management (DAM): Familiarity with enterprise DAM systems for file taxonomy, tagging, and asset organization
  • On-Set Art Direction: Experience assisting or directing on-set photography or video shoots (a bonus for supplementary local content creation)

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, holidays, health insurance and retirement plans
  • Flexible & Hybrid working with min 2 days mandatory per week in-office at NYC office space
  • Transit benefits
  • Cell phone and wifi WFH stipend
  • Annual product discounts
  • Annual discretionary bonus based on performance
  • Quarterly US team building activities
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Medik8

Founded in 2009 by UK scientists, Medik8 is a British dermatological skincare brand, globally renowned for age-defying heroes that deliver results without compromise. We simplify the route to great skin through the highest quality, most efficacious and trusted dermatological skincare. Pioneering the simple but effective CSA Philosophy in 2009; vitamin C + sunscreen by day, vitamin A by night. The secret to glowing, youthful skin.Every Medik8 product combines results-driven, scientific skincare for all skin types. Clinically proven via independent studies, robustly researched and rigorously tested. Recommended by experts, dermatologists and professional therapists around the world. We craft and manufacture virtually everything ourselves from our ISO-certified Innovation Centre, just outside London, UK. Harnessing the highest quality ingredients alongside patented technologies (many of which are unique to us), means every product meets consistent UK standards of excellence.We are also proud to be 1 of only 66 beauty manufacturers worldwide to be B CorpTM certified. When you buy Medik8, you can be assured you’re not compromising on sustainability values like helping to reduce carbon and plastic waste or prioritising renewable energy.Our core company values are;We work with IntegrityWe cherish our CommunityWe are passionate ExpertsWe are truly Innovative

Founded in 2009
Elstree, England, GBR
265 employees (46 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
34 (13% of company)
Median Career Experience
3 years
Median Tenure
2.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$14.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.2%
Direct
52.4%
Referral
5.3%
Social
5.7%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~265

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