Creative Principal

USA (Remote)

$149K/yr – $215K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own creative direction and systematize a global brand for a technically oriented AI agency, balancing web-forward design, storytelling, and AI-assisted workflows to raise craft and coherence.

  • Own integrated campaigns and web-forward creative direction across digital surfaces.
  • Build scalable design systems and toolkits and accelerate ideation with AI tooling.
  • Collaborate with marketing, product, and design to raise brand coherence and elevate flagship work.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Elevate the visual quality of Abnormal AI’s global brand across all touchpoints, including web, product, campaigns, social, and experiential.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, content, and web partners to bring cohesive, compelling creative concepts to life.
  • Provide creative feedback that sharpens concepts and elevates execution across campaigns, launches, social, events, and motion.
  • Create scalable design systems and toolkits that bring clarity and consistency to a growing global brand.
  • Bring strong web fluency to the team, contributing to web-forward creative direction across digital surfaces and campaigns.
  • Integrate AI tools actively into your creative practice. Use them to accelerate ideation, scale production, and push the work further, faster.
  • Champion brand elevation and coherence, ensuring that every creative output tells the Abnormal story in a distinct, elevated way.
  • Push the boundaries of what a B2B AI brand can look and feel like. Keep pushing.
  • 90-Day Goals: Audit and understand Abnormal AI’s existing brand identity and creative systems.
  • Lead creative direction for at least one integrated campaign, launch, or content initiative.

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of relevant experience in design, with a strong balance of in-house and agency work.
  • A portfolio of standout, strategic, and original brand work across digital, experiential, and integrated campaigns, with demonstrated web capability.
  • Proven experience evolving or establishing a visual identity system at scale.
  • Full-stack creative versatility: comfortable owning a wide variety of asset types and moving fluidly between campaign, digital, brand, and web work.
  • Web fluency: not necessarily a UI/UX specialist, but deeply comfortable with web-forward creative direction and able to demonstrate strong web work in your portfolio.
  • Actively uses AI tools as a genuine accelerant in your creative practice, spanning ideation, production, and workflow. You bring curiosity and a real point of view on what AI-native creative workflows can look like.
  • Strong command of typography, color, composition, motion, and visual storytelling.
  • Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and similar design tools.
  • Comfortable translating technical or abstract product concepts into compelling visual narratives.
  • Experience with production workflows for video or experiential design.
  • Clear communicator and cross-functional collaborator; equally comfortable presenting to executives or mentoring junior creatives.
  • A team-first mentality: you collaborate with generosity and humility, and thrive in a high-trust, ego-free creative culture.

Nice to have

  • Experience working on AI, cybersecurity, or highly technical brands.
  • Motion design skills or experience collaborating with animation teams.
  • Familiarity with product design systems and UI/UX environments.
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    Abnormal

    Abnormal is a young, dynamic advertising agency based in Bryanston, Johannesburg.We believe it’s essential for brands to break their categories in order to have any impact. Our small team packs a big punch and we make it our daily mission to fight the norm. Our offering includes design, ATL advertising, digital design, and strategy for various platforms.

    Founded in 2015
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
    10 employees (4 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    238
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    44.9%
    Direct
    33.6%
    Referral
    13%
    Social
    5.1%
    Paid
    1.4%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~10

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    1 (10% of company)
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    4