Creative Director (Remote US)

Legion Intelligence

3d•$180,000 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

Legion is seeking a Creative Director to establish and lead its in-house, AI-native creative function. This role is responsible for setting the creative standard across various channels including brand design, art direction, and creative services, particularly within high-growth technology, AI, B2B SaaS, or complex technical markets. The Creative Director will be a hands-on individual contributor, responsible for producing high-priority creative work, building AI-native workflows, and managing a small team of designers and specialists over time. The position is crucial for making Legion's mission in national security, defense, and critical infrastructure legible to relevant audiences. The company emphasizes a remote-first culture with competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and a focus on ownership, discipline, and mission.

Requirements

8+ years in creative, brand design, art direction, or creative services, in high-growth technology, AI, B2B SaaS, or similarly complex and technical markets, with real hands-on production and not just oversight.
A portfolio that shows range and craft across brand, campaign, web, social, video, and product or technical storytelling, with both concept and execution.
Daily, advanced use of AI in the creative process: frontier models such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and AI design, image, and video tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway, Google Veo, Sora, and ElevenLabs.
Creative coding and prototyping using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Figma Make, v0 by Vercel.
A track record of turning brand guidelines into systems that others can run: reusable prompts, templates, kits, or workflows.
Experience building, hiring, and managing a freelance or contractor bench.
Hands-on motion and video production with tools such as Premiere, After Effects, Descript, and AI-assisted video.
Ability to produce product and in-product visual support: icons, diagrams, app imagery, feature visuals, and lightweight in-product creative.
Strong command of Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
Strong written and verbal communication and a high-ownership, low-ego, fast-moving style.

Nice To Haves

Experience in defense, national security, intelligence, national labs, critical infrastructure, public sector, or other regulated, high-consequence industries.
Experience with ABM, demand generation, product launches, or full-funnel B2B campaigns.
Experience with lightweight web tools such as Webflow or Framer.
Experience building AI brand kits or machine-readable brand guidance that other people adopted.

Responsibilities

Set the creative bar across brand, web, campaigns, events, social, video, and sales materials, and personally design and produce the highest-priority work.
Translate complex AI, agent orchestration, edge, and national security concepts into clear, visual systems.
Partner with Federal Marketing, Demand Marketing, and Product Marketing on demand generation, ABM, launches, education, and field events.
Build modular campaign systems, landing pages, social assets, email graphics, sales collateral, and executive materials.
Use frontier models and AI creative tools daily to build repeatable workflows across video, campaign kits, landing pages, social, product visuals, and decks.
Turn Legion’s brand into machine-readable infrastructure: reusable prompts, templates, kits, and playbooks, with human review at the brief and final gate.
Build and manage a flexible bench of freelance designers, motion and video specialists, and other contractors.
Own intake, prioritization, briefs, review rituals, and clear SLAs from brief to shipped asset.
Partner with the Product team to help set visual design direction and oversee/produce product and in-product visual support.
Run creative as a measurable loop, from brief to shipped asset to performance read to the next iteration.
Use performance signals to sharpen concepts, formats, and priorities.