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Creative Director
Location
United States
Posted
201 days ago
Salary
$150K - $200K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Creative Director
DTN
• Lead the In-House Creative Team: Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of designers, writers, and video/content creators, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance. • Develop best-in-class creative for a variety of touchpoints - including but not limited to - design, brand, web, social, events, product, interface and more. • Help lead and manage both in-house and external teams in creative strategy, execution and production. • Own and drive the overall creative vision that aligns with company and business unit strategies, ensuring all campaigns are on-brand and on-message. • Be comfortable with and able to work across several different Ai platforms from a creative and workflow perspective. • Develop and execute integrated creative campaigns for product launches, demand generation, digital marketing, sales enablement, events, and brand awareness across channels (web, social, email, video, print, etc.). • Safeguard and evolve our brand standards, ensuring consistent messaging, tone, and visual identity across all touchpoints. • Oversee creative project workflows, from initial concept through execution and delivery. • Comfortable managing budgets and resources for maximum impact. • Work closely with marketing, sales, product, and executive teams to translate business objectives into compelling creative strategies. • Leverage creative performance data and market insights to continuously improve effectiveness and drive ROI for marketing assets. • Oversee external creative vendors and agencies, ensuring alignment with internal capabilities and brand guidelines. • Implement scalable creative processes and best practices to improve quality, speed, and collaboration across the organization. • Foster a collaborative and inclusive approach to your work, enabling cross team working to deliver the very best results.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of creative leadership experience in a B2B software, SaaS, or technology environment.
- Brings clarity to complexity through the power of storytelling - able to communicate intricate ideas with simplicity and impact.
- Proven track record overseeing high-performing creative teams delivering design, video, copywriting, and web development projects.
- Experience leading and managing both in-house and/or external teams in creative strategy, execution and production
- Collaborative leader who can inspire creativity while instilling discipline and accountability.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating ability to translate complex technical concepts into engaging creative assets that drive business results.
- Deep expertise in design thinking, brand development, digital marketing, and multimedia production.
- Superior project management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly matrixed organization with multiple business units and product lines.
- Experience managing creative budgets and agency/vendor relationships.
- Proficiency with modern creative and production tools (Ai Platform, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, web CMS platforms, project management software, etc.).
- Experience as a manager with organization and people skills and the ability to set priorities, problem-solve, multi-task and work in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
- Self-driven, organized, detail-oriented, and able to multitask.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Unlimited PTO
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work model
- Competitive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
- 6% 401K matching
- Unlimited access to 13k+ courses via learning platform to support employee career advancement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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