Responsibilities

• Own the creative direction and evolution of the Druva brand, from visual language and motion to tone and expression, ensuring consistency, quality, and ambition across every touchpoint: digital, physical, video, and experiential.
• Lead, mentor, and grow the skills of the in-house creative team, managing designers, video, and web creative talent while building a culture of craft, collaboration, and creative courage. You'll develop people, not just approve work.
• Stay hands-on. You'll run the studio and get in the file. The best ideas here will often be yours, executed by you, at the level you're asking of everyone else.
• Translate deeply technical concepts into creative that connects, turning agentic AI, data security, cyber resilience, and platform architecture into visual storytelling that a CIO, a CISO, and a backup admin all immediately understand.
• Set the AI-forward creative operating model. Evaluate, adopt, and responsibly govern AI tools across concepting, production, and iteration; establish clear standards for where AI accelerates the work and where the human hand is non-negotiable; teach the team to use these tools well.
• Lead brand-defining creative moments, including product launches, category campaigns, flagship events, and analyst and customer storytelling, from concept through execution.
• Serve as creative partner to our executives, shaping keynote visuals, executive storytelling, and thought leadership so our leaders show up with a distinctive, unmistakably Druva point of view.
• Set the creative direction for druva.com and our digital experience, designing web that pops off the page. We want pages people remember: bold, expressive, unmistakably premium, and nothing like the templated enterprise sites we compete against.
• Own video and motion creative, from product explainers and customer stories to brand films and social content, setting the creative vision for animation across channels.
• Define the creative vision for Druva's presence at global events and tradeshows, partnering with our events team to deliver immersive, on-brand experiences that people remember after the badge comes off.

Requirements

• 8+ years in brand, creative, or design leadership, with proven experience building, leading, and mentoring a multidisciplinary creative team.
• A portfolio that makes us sit up: exceptional creative direction across brand, digital, and video, showing both strategic thinking and execution excellence.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI in the creative process: a real point of view on which tools earn their place, how to use them responsibly, and how to protect originality and craft while moving significantly faster.
• Web design that pops off the page. Your portfolio has sites and campaign pages with real visual ambition, the kind that make people stop and look twice.
• A strong track record translating complex technical concepts into clear, compelling visual storytelling.
• Deep expertise across brand, campaign, video, and motion creative, with the ability to create cohesive experiences across every touchpoint.
• Exceptional organizational instincts. You've built creative operating models, intake and review processes, and quality standards that let teams work efficiently at scale.
• A sharp editorial eye and uncompromising standards for craft, consistency, and creative quality.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing across marketing, product, and leadership.
• Seniority sufficient to have run a creative studio before, paired with a genuine willingness to stay hands-on and execute the work directly.

Preferred

• Creative leadership experience in AI, SaaS, cloud, cybersecurity, or enterprise infrastructure
• Experience defining or redefining a brand at a high-growth or category-creating company
• Experience working directly with executives on keynotes, storytelling, and high-visibility moments
• Hands-on strength in motion design, experiential, or large-scale event creative
• Web work with a distinct visual signature, ideally including a site redesign or rebrand you led end to end
• Fluency with Asana for creative operations, intake, and resourcing
• Fluency with Figma, Canva and Midjourney
• Familiarity with technical audiences (IT, security, and infrastructure buyers) and how to create for them without dumbing it down
• Experience scaling an in-house creative team from lean to full capability
• A strong, well-argued point of view on where brand and AI intersect, and how to use emerging tools responsibly

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is expected to be between $196,000 and $274,667/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized, non-discriminatory factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, and equity. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.