Associate Creative Director

ZAGG•Midvale, UT

About The Position

ZAGG Brands is a global leader in mobile accessories and technologies built for modern connected life. Our product portfolio includes screen protection, power solutions, mobile keyboards, and cases across ZAGG, mophie, and related brands. ZAGG is looking for an Associate Creative Director who can lead visual content across product, brand, retail, social, e-commerce, and campaign channels. This role is for someone who understands how content gets made, not just how it looks in a deck. You’ll help shape the visual direction for multiple brands, lead art direction for photography and video, guide social-first content creation, and make sure our products show up with clarity, purpose, and consistency everywhere they appear. The right candidate brings strong art direction, content production, photography, social, and CPG experience. They know how to tell a product story, how to direct a shoot, how to guide a team, and how to build assets that work across retail, dotcom, Amazon, paid media, organic social, packaging, and brand campaigns.

Requirements

A strong portfolio with art direction, photography, video, social content, product storytelling, and campaign work.
7+ years of relevant creative, content, or photo art direction experience.
4+ years of team leadership, mentorship, or creative management experience.
Strong experience creating content for consumer products, CPG, retail, e-commerce, and social channels.
Proven art direction experience across photography, video, motion, social, and digital content.
A strong understanding of social content creation, including short-form video, platform behavior, creator-style content, paid social, and organic content.
Some 3D creation or 3D art direction experience, with the ability to work with 3D artists, review renders, and guide product visualization.
Strong photography knowledge, including lighting, composition, styling, propping, surfaces, backgrounds, set direction, and product detail.
Experience leading shoots from concept through final delivery.
Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.
Strong working knowledge of Figma, including experience building design systems, shared libraries, reusable components, and scalable templates that help teams create consistent work across brand, retail, e-commerce, and social channels.
Experience building mood boards, treatments, storyboards, shot lists, and creative briefs.
Strong project management skills with the ability to move multiple workstreams without losing quality.
Clear communication skills and the ability to work well with creative, marketing, product, retail, and executive teams.
A sharp eye for detail, product truth, composition, pacing, and brand consistency.
The ability to give useful creative feedback and raise the quality of the work without slowing the team down.
All applications must include a portfolio link.

Nice To Haves

Experience with mobile accessories, consumer electronics, technology, lifestyle, or premium product brands.
Experience working with in-house creative teams, studios, agencies, and external production partners.
Experience with Amazon, retail toolkits, PDP content, paid social, and launch campaigns.
Hands-on 3D skills in tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, KeyShot, or similar software.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Creative Director and creative leadership team to define and execute visual direction across ZAGG and mophie.
Lead art direction for photography, video, social content, motion, campaign assets, retail content, e-commerce, and brand initiatives.
Develop visual concepts that show product benefits clearly and make the work ownable to each brand.
Direct and manage photo and video shoots, including concept development, shot lists, mood boards, treatments, location scouting, talent direction, styling, and production logistics.
Guide social-first content creation, including short-form video, product demos, lifestyle content, campaign cutdowns, creator-style assets, and platform-specific content.
Work closely with design, marketing, product, e-commerce, retail, and channel teams to understand business needs and translate them into strong creative output.
Lead and mentor photographers, videographers, editors, motion designers, designers, and external partners.
Review photo selects, rough cuts, edits, animations, layouts, and final assets with a clear eye for quality and brand fit.
Contribute to storyboards, scripts, content concepts, campaign ideas, and production plans.
Build creative briefs, treatments, mood boards, reference decks, shot lists, and production proposals.
Manage production timelines, budgets, priorities, and deliverables across multiple active projects.
Maintain consistent visual standards across all content while helping push the brands forward.
Help update visual guidelines, content systems, and production standards as the brands grow.
Represent the visual content team in key meetings and clearly communicate creative direction, progress, risks, and needs.