Creative Director

We're looking for a Creative Director to drive excellence in DTC advertisement design quality and seamless delivery of creative assets as part of our Content Team.

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of creative assets for our performance marketing campaigns for Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Landing Pages. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams, including growth managers, designers, and content producers, to ensure excellence in projects from conception to production to completion. The ideal candidate feels at home in design software (Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, CapCut), has incredible communication skills and is engaged in the DTC digital world with an eye for “what works.”

This role reports to the VP, Content, works cross-functionally with Account teams, and manages a team of Content Specialists/Strategists.

Responsibilities

Creative Management:

• Manage a team of Content Specialists/Strategists to oversee creative direction and compelling execution of static, video and animation briefs for DTCo’s portfolio of Direct to Consumer brands.
• Work closely with Content Strategists to ensure that briefs are received with appropriate detail for immediate action. Resolve blockers cross-functionally with a growth mindset.
• Facilitate the creative production process through design brainstorms, ideation sessions, excellent communication and attention to detail, ensuring that work is completed on time, tasks are moved through the process effectively and that clients are consistently delighted by quality of output.

Quality Assurance:

• Conduct thorough quality checks on creative deliverables to ensure they meet client expectations and adhere to brand guidelines.
• Provide constructive feedback to the Content team for continuous improvement, inclusive of upskilling Content Strategists in areas of design/production personal development.

Resource Allocation:

• Monitor workloads and adjust resources as needed to meet project deadlines.
• Facilitate all internal and client feedback to ensure it is worked on in a timely manner.
• Operate as coverage for Content Strategists where needed; able to jump into active projects and execute confidently.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Foster strong communication channels between Account, Content, and Client teams. Communication occurs between Slack, Asana and weekly calls.
• Support client communication through Slack, sharing creative for review, scheduling calls, and navigating feedback.

Project Planning and Coordination:

• Develop and maintain project timelines, ensuring all milestones are met.
• Collaborate with internal teams to gather project requirements and set clear objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in managing creative projects, ideally in-house at a DTC brand and/or agency-side.
• 5+ years managing a team of creative designers.
• Strong visual portfolio and demonstrated experience in performance marketing campaigns across static, animation and video mediums.
• Experience managing projects and teams in dynamic environments.
• Excels at coaching team members to greatness and translating subjective feedback to objective action. A meticulous eye for detail in copy and design fundamentals.
• Experience translating brand guidelines into digital-first ad experiences.
• Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills.
• Thrives on process improvement and opportunities for scalable solutions.
• Expert-level social landscape fluency: you can smell a trend a mile away and have an eye for “what works” on Paid Social

Intangibles

• Primary: Organized, Creative, Communicative
• Secondary: Proactive, Confident, Curious

Team Player

• Comfortable being relied on to balance workload and deliverables.
• Coaches with empathy. Can show, rather than tell, Content team how to develop.
• Displays sense of urgency when necessary and knows how/when to push back.
• A team player through and through: sees that no idea is too off the wall to surface, no job is too small to get done, and problems can be solved collaboratively.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation & Benefits
• Annual Bonuses
• 100% Remote
• Leadership Participates in Day-to-Day Work
• Fun, High-Growth Clients
• Inclusive Team Dynamic
• A Team That Has More Going On Than Just Work