Creative Director, Art

Are you a campaign and idea expert? Are you eager to rebuild a brand with breakthrough creative? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you. Join us as our newest Creative Director, Art and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

We’re looking for a Creative Director, Art to lead our internal creative team and tell our story through breakthrough campaigns that compel people into action and changes the way they think about Realtor.com.

Reporting directly to SVP Head of Brand and Creative, ECD, you’ll bring a hunger for breakthrough ideas, flawless execution, and become the go-to champion of possibility for the group. You're an idea-generating machine with a keen perspective on how to express ideas visually, a mastery of craft and design.

As our Creative Director, Art, you understand the power of creative problem solving—not just in communications but in everything a company does: from product design, CRM, customer service, to internal comms and PR. As a creative leader, you’ll join forces with internal stakeholders and make them feel like they own the work as much as the creative team.

You’ll also partner with the Brand Strategy Director to form campaigns that deliver on business results, and find opportunities internally that deliver on our brand promise.

Finally, you’ll develop and grow working relationships with outside agencies, guiding them to deliver their best work yet with unignorable campaigns that drive business results and cultural impact.

In summary, you will become the standard bearer for creative work; inspire the team on all fronts, and foster a culture of optimism and inclusion.

What you’ll do for the creative

• Fight for initiatives to exist, making arguments based on merit, not opinion
• Spot powerful ideas and relentlessly drive them forward
• Lead the entire creative process: help form the brief, run reviews and presentations, use production as the ultimate creative tool
• Strike the balance between making and delegating at the same time
• Be ready to quickly jump into any project if necessary. Drop into an edit, remake a deck, or come up with a new idea that takes the work to a new level

What you’ll do for the team

• Mentor teams to ensure they are constantly challenged and growing
• Help manage workload and cast the best talent to the right brief
• Help define project calendars that allow for on-time delivery and the best possible execution
• Carve out a career path for your direct reports, delivering goals and performance reviews
• Keep an eye on morale, helping nip issues in the bud
• Directly manage internal/external direct report(s), contractors/freelancers and/or agencies

What you’ll do for partners and stakeholders

• Develop and maintain close working relationship with leaders within the organization—product, customer, growth, digital marketing, etc
• Turn partners into fierce allies in bringing breakthrough work to life
• Share work confidently 
• Listen furiously and have productive feedback conversations
• Set standards for design, optimizing for clarity and consistency

What you’ll do for the culture

• Foster a spirit of possibility and collaboration with everyone
• Champion great ideas, no matter where they come from
• Ensure that everyone’s voice is heard
• Drive a ‘let’s try it and learn’ attitude

What you’ll bring

• 10 years at in-house studio or studio leading world-class brands
• 5-7 year of management experience
• Experience owning campaigns across all channels
• Ability to develop simple and heart-stopping visual solutions to complex communication challenges 
• Mastery in photography, typography and design
• Self-starter, with something to prove
• Optimist, fast-learner and deeply curious
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Editorial design experience
• Proficient in After Effects
• Proficient in Premiere or FinalCut
• Figma power user

Additional locations for this role are Scottsdale, AZ, Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, and Morgantown, WV

At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.  As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates

The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.  All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.

Salary Range for select office locations 

Santa Clara $198,450 to $282,750

New York $198,450 to $282,750

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary.  Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills. 

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.