Creative Director

Title: Creative Director

Reporting To: TBD

Preferred Location: United States

Role Overview:

This role is responsible for leading the development, presentation, and creation of marketing campaign concepts, strategies, and assets for various brand projects in compliance with the brand’s specific branding guidelines. The CD helps transform concepts into finished creative work and manages others on the creative team, ensuring client objectives are achieved. The successful candidate will possess a sharp creative eye, be a creative thinker, able to develop creative concepts and strategies that are relevant, innovative, and effective. Ultimately the Creative Director is a leadership powerhouse that is able to motivate and direct others on the team in the design and production of marketing solutions across different platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee in a hands-on capacity creative strategy, development, and execution of brand & creative.
• Collaborates in defining and formalizing branding guidelines for newly acquired brands.
• Lead internal resources and outside agencies to complete projects as briefed by e-Commerce, Merchandising, Promotion, and Channel teams.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering and eCommerce teams to develop and maintain design consistency.
• Manage in-house and external creative teams
• Responsible for managing and communicating the brand effectively

Requirements:

• 8-10 years of related experience as a Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, or Art Director in either an agency or in-house creative role
• Detailed experience managing direct reports as well as agency resources
• Proven expertise in ideation, execution, and end-to-end facilitation of complex marketing and advertising content and copy across mediums and channels, including national TV, direct marketing, paid social, lead generation, and print
• Experience creating and evolving brand guides, style guides, brand voice and tone, and brand architectures
• Driven experience with a mindset on the customer's creative vision
• Ability to drive and lead storytelling initiatives
• Knowledge of digital marketing practices, including SEO and A/B Testing
• Proven expertise with Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, and JIRA

Pay Transparency: 

Please refer to the salary range provided for the role. The actual compensation will be dependent on a variety of job-related competencies which may include work experience, education, technical skill level, and geographic location.  

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodation by contacting [email protected].  

Additional Information: For U.S. Roles Only 

We believe entrepreneurship can happen anywhere. With that, most of our roles are 100% remote and will require you to travel for team offsites and company events. We are open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska.  

Employees are eligible to take advantage of some of our benefits such as;  

• Medical, Dental, and Vision.  
• Virtual medical and mental health appointments.  
• Health Advocates to provide support between the insurance company, the doctor, and you, to help you navigate complex insurance and medical questions.  
• Life and disability insurance, both long and short-term.  
• Employee Assistance Programs, accidental insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, and critical illness insurance.  
• Unlimited paid time off for exempt individuals and 15-days for non-exempt employees. 
• We observe 10 paid company holidays, 4 mental health days, and 2 days for local charity work or volunteering.  
• Employees are also eligible for paid parental leave plus a paid transitional period to ease new parents back into the workplace.   

If you are interested in joining our team at Foundry, please use this link to share your resume with us. You are more than welcome to include a cover letter if you’d like, however we know you are busy being a superhuman and do not require it.  

Our Promise: 

Foundry believes that the long-term success of our organization starts from within, our people. Our goal is to curate a workforce that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, echoing that same sentiment throughout our brand acquisitions, vendor partnerships, and advisors. We welcome talent from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and want a mix of people to bring new ideas to the table to help us concur our mission: growing great brands. Foundry is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity, or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status or any other status. We will do our part to set each individual at Foundry up for success, providing reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and each member’s career journey during their tenure here, to perform essential job functions and receive any additional benefits and privileges of employment necessary. Foundry supports visa sponsorship; sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skill sets.