• Develop and implement creative strategies that align with our brand objectives, messaging, and business goals. • Select, brief, and manage a roster of creative agencies and freelance partners. Set clear creative expectations, drive accountability to brand standards, and ensure agency output is on-strategy, on-brand, and on-time. You are the creative authority; agencies execute under your direction. • Continually evolve and refine the brand identity, ensuring consistency across all creative assets, including visual design, tone of voice, and storytelling. • Personally develop concepts and produce compelling creative across digital, social, video, and event channels, and direct agency and freelance resources to extend that work at scale. You are comfortable both doing and directing. • Conceptualize and develop integrated marketing campaign assets that resonate with our target audience and drive brand awareness and engagement. • Partner closely with marketing leadership to develop paid and organic ad creative, then use performance analytics to iterate and improve. Translate data signals (CTR, conversion, engagement) into creative decisions that strengthen campaign ROI over time. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and sales, to ensure creative initiatives align with overall business strategies. • Own the creative production budget. Scope projects accurately, make smart build-vs.-buy decisions, creative tools & subscription selection, and hold agencies and vendors to agreed costs. Deliver ambitious creative without runaway spend, knowing when to invest and when to find a smarter path. • Maintain high standards for creative output, ensuring that all content is in line with brand guidelines and meets quality benchmarks.

Role Description As the Creative Director at Schoox, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our visual brand identity and creative asset development. This is a hands-on creative leadership role: you will set creative strategy, drive execution, and raise the quality bar across every touchpoint working in close partnership with a curated mix of creative agencies and production partners rather than managing a large internal team. You bring both the strategic vision and the leadership to manage a high-volume creative environment without diluting the brand’s visual quality. - Creative Strategy: Develop and implement creative strategies that align with our brand objectives, messaging, and business goals. - Agency & Partner Management: Select, brief, and manage a roster of creative agencies and freelance partners. Set clear creative expectations, drive accountability to brand standards, and ensure agency output is on-strategy, on-brand, and on-time. You are the creative authority; agencies execute under your direction. - Brand Development: Continually evolve and refine the brand identity, ensuring consistency across all creative assets, including visual design, tone of voice, and storytelling. - Hands-On Creative Execution: Personally develop concepts and produce compelling creative across digital, social, video, and event channels, and direct agency and freelance resources to extend that work at scale. You are comfortable both doing and directing. - Campaign Development: Conceptualize and develop integrated marketing campaign assets that resonate with our target audience and drive brand awareness and engagement. - Performance-Driven Creative Optimization: Partner closely with marketing leadership to develop paid and organic ad creative, then use performance analytics to iterate and improve. Translate data signals (CTR, conversion, engagement) into creative decisions that strengthen campaign ROI over time. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and sales, to ensure creative initiatives align with overall business strategies. - Production Budget Management: Own the creative production budget. Scope projects accurately, make smart build-vs.-buy decisions, creative tools & subscription selection, and hold agencies and vendors to agreed costs. Deliver ambitious creative without runaway spend, knowing when to invest and when to find a smarter path. - Quality Control: Maintain high standards for creative output, ensuring that all content is in line with brand guidelines and meets quality benchmarks. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, or Advertising). Master's degree is a plus. - 8+ years of creative experience, with a track record of operating as both a hands-on practitioner and a strategic creative lead ideally within B2B SaaS, enterprise technology, or a fast-growth software company. - Strong portfolio showcasing a range of creative work across various mediums. - Proficiency in creative software (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.). - Excellent communication and presentation skills. - A strategic thinker with a deep understanding of marketing and brand development. - Proven experience managing external creative agencies and freelancers — evaluating partners, writing creative briefs, providing clear direction, and holding work to brand and quality standards. - Strong project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. - Knowledge of emerging trends and technologies, including the use of AI tools to support creative asset production. Benefits - Salary range: $125,000-$145,000. - The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications and experience. - The offered compensation may also include restricted stock options. - A description of our employee benefits may be found HERE.

• Concept and produce video creative across paid social, CTV, and emerging channels • Bring a sharp visual eye to every asset • Stay on top of platform trends, formats, and cultural shifts • Develop hooks, angles, and visual frameworks rooted in performance • Edit video directly • Leverage AI tools to accelerate workflows • Collaborate closely with media, growth, and senior creative teammates

• Deliver High-Impact Creative: Concept and design best-in-class digital creative across social, and video, with a strong focus on visual storytelling and performance. • Mentor & Lead: Act as a direct supervisor and mentor to junior and mid-level Art Directors and Designers. Provide clear, constructive feedback to creatives across disciplines (for example, to copy) to elevate the team's output and foster professional growth. • Support Video + Content Production: Contribute to pre-production planning, support on-set shoots, and collaborate with editors and designers in post to ensure work comes to life as intended. • Partner Across Disciplines: Work closely with copywriters, strategists, producers, project managers, and client teams to ensure creative aligns with brief goals, brand voice, and business objectives. • Be a Problem Solver: Navigate ambiguity with CD support, adapt to shifting priorities, and bring proactive solutions to creative and production challenges. These solutions should come in the form of daily brainstorming and inspiration sharing with the team. • Cultivate Culture: Foster an inclusive, high-energy environment. Lead daily brainstorms and inspiration-sharing sessions to keep the team’s creative pulse sharp.Manage Creative Execution: Own the work from end to end. Concepting and producing polished on-brand, performance-minded assets that meet timelines and briefs. As an Associate Director, Art Direction, you will lead by doing, driving execution while strategically delegating portions of our projects to our junior team members to support efficiency, mentorship and delivery while remaining accountable for the final output.