Creative Director

About The Role

As Headway’s founding creative director, you’ll be responsible for defining and evolving the brand visual identity and bringing our brand and mission to life visually. There’s a lot of opportunities for you to make a major impact on Headway’s brand creative strategy, lead a creative process to launch marketing campaigns and build the creative team. It is an incredible opportunity for people who are excited about growing a creative function from scratch and building a category-defining mental health brand with a world-class team.

You will:

• Develop and evolve our brand visual identity that’s aligned with Headway’s business goals. 
• Drive and oversee the creative output in partnership with the executive team, marketing and product to bring our brand to life, including marketing campaigns, product launches, events and other branded assets across all touch points.
• Build the creative discipline at Headway from 0 to 1. You will define the working models and set up the creative pipeline.
• Build a creative team that’s aligned with company business growth in your first year. 

You will love this role if you have:

• BA in Graphic, Brand, Visual Design or a related field.
• 8+ years of agency and/or in-house creative team experience.
• Strong portfolio showcasing a diverse range of creative projects across various mediums, especially around brand design system, growth marketing and integrated campaigns. 
• Strong understanding of brand strategy and the ability to translate it into impactful visual storytelling.
• Exceptional artistic vision and sense of design sensibilities, with a keen eye for detail and aesthetics.
• Excited about building the discipline from zero to one as a hybrid design and manager role. 
• Strong leadership skills to work across XFN partners, with the ability to present, motivate and inspire others.
• You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in mental health care today (access and affordability).