Creative Director, Design

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Creative Director, Design to lead visual storytelling for a leading brand in the real estate industry. This role involves setting the creative vision for the brand's visual expression and guiding the design team's craft trajectory. The Creative Director will lead design and art direction for over 15 integrated campaigns annually, covering both consumer (B2C) and client (B2B) audiences across various channels. A key aspect of the role includes being a senior creative voice on the brand's celebrity platform and setting visual standards for everyday brand work. The position requires a leader who can inspire, coach, and organize a talented team to produce category-defining work. The role also emphasizes treating AI as a creative leadership responsibility, integrating tools like Gemini and Claude into the team's daily practice to enhance craft and capacity. Collaboration with internal teams, external agencies, directors, and production houses is essential, as is maintaining consistency across consumer and client work while balancing breakthrough campaign moments with daily brand equity building.

Requirements

10+ years of design and art direction experience across agency and in-house creative teams
5+ years leading and managing creative teams, including senior individual contributors and Associate Creative Directors
A portfolio of big idea platforms that hold up across TV, digital, OOH, and social — with craft excellence and business impact
A problem-solver's instinct — you make ambiguous briefs clearer, broken processes smoother, and hard creative calls easier for the team to land.
Mastery of the fundamentals: art direction, typography, photography, visual identity, and layout
Strong fluency in video and motion — confident shaping film concepts, directing on set, and partnering with editors and post production
Proven ability to lead both consumer and B2B work without sacrificing creative ambition
Experience inspiring and coaching established teams through creative evolution — bringing energy and structure without disrupting what's already working
A point of view on AI in creative practice — what it's good for, what it isn't, and how to make a team better with it
Clear creative taste, strong opinions held loosely, and a generous instinct for mentorship
Experience working with external agency partners, directors, and production houses as creative peers

Responsibilities

Lead design and art direction across 15+ integrated campaigns a year — consumer brand, client brand, product marketing, CRM, social, and corporate communication.
Serve as a senior creative voice, leading the visual craft across the surfaces our team owns.
Champion big idea platforms that earn cultural attention and move the business.
Hold a high bar on briefs, production, and the visual language that carries the brand across every touchpoint.
Lead a team that's talented and proud of its work — and ready for a leader who inspires, listens, and acts on what they hear.
Give feedback that makes the work better and the maker stronger.
Invest in structured development, not just mentorship in the margins.
Cast people to briefs that match their strengths and stretch their range.
Earn trust through consistency, candor, and follow-through.
Build the kind of creative culture people fight to be part of — collaborative, generous, craft-obsessed, and unafraid of the swing.
Be the visual steward of a national brand in motion.
Partner with internal and external collaborators — agencies, directors, production houses, influencers — as creative peers, not vendors.
Hold consistency across consumer and client work without flattening creative ambition.
Balance the breakthrough campaign moments with the daily craft that builds brand equity quarter after quarter.
Set the vision for how tools like Gemini, Claude, and Figma MCP get woven into the team's daily practice to expand craft and unlock capacity.
Partner with Neil and the Senior Manager, Brand Operations to identify where AI multiplies craft and where it doesn't belong while empowering your ACDs to push the practice forward.
Operate as a peer to the Creative Director, Copy — co-leading the creative function and the creative transformation.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Consumer and Client Brand Strategists to translate insight into platforms.
Partner with the Senior Manager, Brand Operations and the Consumer and Client Program Managers to make ambitious work deliverable.
Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Customer, and Communications leaders across the company.