Creative Director

About ownpath

ownpath is a design and technology company building at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI.

We work across three verticals:

• Studio — We partner with startups and global enterprises like Hero MotoCorp and Philips to solve high-stakes design and engineering challenges across automotive, finance, healthcare, enterprise software, and AI.
• Labs — We build our own products, tools, and experiments.
• Academy — Where our journey began, and which we're now re-launching to help shape the next generation of designers.

We've built exceptional products and experiences for ambitious companies. Now we're looking for someone to help us discover the next ones.

The Role

ownpath is looking for a Creative Director to shape the creative vision of the studio and lead the quality, direction, and ambition of the work we put into the world.

You’ll work across a diverse range of brand, product, digital, and cultural projects for startups and enterprises, partnering closely with founders, clients, strategists, designers, engineers, and other creative specialists. You’ll be responsible for turning complex briefs into strong creative directions, pushing the quality of our work, and building ideas that are both strategically relevant and creatively distinctive.

This role is for someone who can move comfortably between big-picture creative thinking and the details of execution — someone who can set a direction, articulate why it works, and work closely with teams to bring it to life.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in a creative studio, design agency, product company, or similar environment.
• Proven experience working with enterprise clients is non-negotiable, including leading creative work for large organisations and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong experience leading creative work across brand, digital, product, or integrated projects.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, creative direction, and exceptional craft.
• Strong understanding of brand, design, storytelling, and digital experiences.
• Experience working directly with clients and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear and compelling creative directions.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate and defend creative thinking.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing creative teams.
• Strong creative judgment and attention to detail, with a high bar for craft.
• Comfortable balancing creative ambition with business, technical, and project constraints.
• Curiosity about culture, technology, design, and how new tools are changing creative work.

What would make you stand out

• Experience working across both brand and digital/product projects.
• Experience building creative teams or shaping the creative culture of a studio.
• Experience working with startups as well as large enterprises.
• Strong understanding of emerging technologies, AI, and new creative workflows.
• A distinctive creative point of view and the ability to bring that perspective into the work.
• Experience contributing to new business, pitches, and studio growth.
• A body of work that demonstrates range across different industries, formats, and creative challenges.

What You'll Do

• Set the creative direction and standards across projects at ownpath Studios.
• Lead creative thinking across brand, product, digital, campaigns, content, and other studio projects.
• Translate client and business challenges into strong creative concepts and directions.
• Work closely with clients and senior stakeholders to shape and present creative thinking.
• Develop and communicate clear creative territories, visual directions, and design principles.
• Review and challenge work throughout the process, ensuring a consistently high bar for craft and execution.
• Partner closely with designers, strategists, writers, engineers, and other specialists to bring ideas to life.
• Mentor and develop the creative team, helping designers grow their thinking, craft, and ability to take ownership.
• Build and strengthen ownpath’s creative point of view through the work we produce, the ideas we share, and the way we approach problems.
• Contribute to pitches, new business conversations, proposals, and creative workshops.
• Identify opportunities to experiment with new formats, technologies, tools, and AI-enabled creative workflows.
• Help build the creative culture, processes, and standards that allow the studio to do its best work.

Why ownpath

• Shape the studio’s creative vision and define the creative standards, point of view, and ambition of a growing design and technology studio.
• Work directly with ambitious companies on complex challenges where creative thinking has a real business impact.
• Collaborate closely with designers, strategists, engineers, founders, and other specialists to create work that goes beyond traditional creative disciplines.
• Help develop the next generation of creative talent while shaping how the team thinks, collaborates, and produces great work.
• Explore the intersection of design, technology, and AI, and experiment with new creative tools, formats, and ways of working.
• Be involved from the earliest stages of a brief through to the final execution, with the autonomy to shape both the thinking and the work.
• Contribute to the ideas, work, and perspectives that define how ownpath shows up in the design and technology ecosystem.
• Company-provided MacBook, premium creative software, access to modern AI tools, and a flexible hybrid work setup.