Creative Director

Engine

13d • $157,505 - $218,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.
To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.
More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.
Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in creative strategy or creative leadership, with a track record of innovation and measurable business impact.
• A portfolio that spans both experiential or event creative and performance-driven digital work.
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI and creative technology including tools like: Midjourney, Runway, Firefly, ElevenLabs, automation platforms and the ability to turn them into scalable creative systems.
• Strong direct-response instincts: you can diagnose hooks, understand why creative performs, and know what makes work effective platform by platform.
• A systems-builder mindset. You naturally think in workflows, SOPs, pipelines, and ways to increase creative velocity without compromising quality.
• Craft pedigree in copy, art direction, design, or video that grounds your strategic judgment.
• Strong performance fluency: you’re comfortable with the metrics and know how to translate data and creative signals into the next iteration.
• Experience leading and developing creative talent while remaining close enough to the work to contribute directly when needed.
• Visionary and pragmatic, with high agency and an appetite for building in a fast-moving, AI-forward environment.

Responsibilities

• Create across the entire customer journey. Growth touches every stage from the first impression in a paid ad, printed asset, or event through the website, lifecycle, in-product moments, and beyond.
• Own the creative that shows up across all of it and build the automation, tooling, and workflows behind a creative engine capable of producing distinctive, high-performing, on-brand work at scale.
• Make AI a core part of how we create while maintaining a high bar for taste, craft, and originality.
• Design the end-to-end creative pipeline: workflows, prompt libraries, components, guardrails, asset databases, and tool stacks that allow us to ship high volumes of quality creative quickly.
• Drive real innovation in how we apply AI to stand out, and establish the QA systems that keep quality high as output scales.
• Continuously experiment with emerging creative technology, agencies, and production models.
• Partner with Growth’s technical resources to leverage open-source libraries and build new capabilities that increase the speed, quality, and scale of creative production.
• Treat creative as an audience filter and a growth lever.
• Build frameworks for high-performing creative territories, connect testing insights and customer behavior to new ideas, and diagnose what’s working through signals like hook rate, hold rate, conversion, and creative decay.
• Work closely with Engine’s Brand team to translate creative and narrative into Engine’s brand systems while finding new ways to scale performance without losing what makes the brand distinctive.
• Lead creative for events, conferences, activations, and field moments.
• Design experiences that make the brand felt, earn attention in the room, and create stories and assets that travel far beyond the event itself.
• Ship creative that earns its media spend: bold, memorable, and unmistakably Engine.
• Bring flagship ideas that break category conventions while keeping the creative pipeline fresh ahead of fatigue.
• Partner with Growth on structured testing frameworks, concept logs, and learning agendas so every cycle compounds into smarter, stronger creative.
• Lead and develop designers, editors, AI specialists, and producers.
• Set the creative bar, stay close to the work, and deploy your own craft when it counts.
• Build a culture that values experimentation, speed, accountability, and exceptional creative standards.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed