Creative Director

Healthy Gamer • Houston, TX

12h

About The Position

As Creative Director , you’ll help define our design strategy, support creative initiatives, and improve how our design work moves from request to execution, ensuring clarity, consistency, and quality across our creative projects. You’ll partner with our team to provide creative direction, mentor designers, and help translate strategy into high-quality, cohesive design work across all our channels throughout the year.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in design or creative leadership roles, with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality work across brand, product, or content
• Proven experience developing creative strategy and long-term design roadmaps aligned with organizational goals
• Strong track record of providing creative direction and feedback that elevates the quality and consistency of design work
• Experience mentoring and developing designers, with the ability to strengthen both creative thinking and execution skills
• Demonstrated ability to improve creative workflows and operational processes, including intake, scoping, and prioritization
• Deep understanding of brand systems, visual identity, and cross-channel consistency
• Ability to balance high-level strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering with cross-functional teams and leadership
• Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Proficiency with modern design tools and workflows relevant to digital product and brand design

Nice To Haves

• Experience with game design, consumer platforms, or in the mental health industry are a big plus!

Responsibilities

• Develop a high-level annual design strategy and creative roadmap, informed by department priorities and design needs
• Establish creative standards and priorities to guide design execution across product, brand, and content projects, ensuring visual consistency across channels/experiences
• Identify opportunities to improve visual systems, brand consistency, and overall creative quality
• Provide creative direction and feedback on high-priority and time-sensitive design projects
• Support short-term design initiatives as needed to ensure quality and alignment
• Mentor and up-skill the design team in strategic design, execution quality, and creative thinking
• Share best practices and frameworks to strengthen the team’s creative capabilities
• Assess and improve the design request intake and handoff process
• Improve how design work is scoped, briefed, prioritized, and transitioned into production
• Provide regular progress updates and recommendations to leadership
• Deliverables: 2026 annual design strategy and creative roadmap
• Ongoing mentorship and team support
• Regular progress updates and recommendations to improve processes around design

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed