Group Creative Director, Design

Meta•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Creative X is a global, integrated creative agency that drives the creative vision for our brands and how they are perceived in the world. We develop the vision for next-generation creative advertising, consumer brand content and experiences for Meta, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and our hardware products. Our vision is fearless creativity that shapes the future of connection. With some of the industry’s best talent on our team, we create beautiful work that has a purpose. And with an audience of almost five billion across some of the world’s biggest brands, we create brave ideas that demonstrate the full creative potential of our platforms, including industry leading, envy-inducing creative experiences that push the boundaries of traditional advertising. We believe in attracting and nurturing industry-leading talent with a focus on community and career development. We have developed best-in-class collaboration models with agencies and our cross-company creative network to ensure a consistent and effective creative narrative for work that reaches an audience across the globe due to the scale of our products. We are seeking a Director of Brand Design to lead the brand development of Meta’s AR/VR technology portfolio. This leadership role is responsible for activating brand strategies and driving forward a design led vision for Meta’s AR/VR consumer journey and brand touch points. This role will guide both internal and external teams to develop distinctively Meta experiences across software, hardware, retail, packaging and more. We expect this role to elevate design quality, foster a community-oriented design environment, create new ways of working and partner seamlessly with engineering, product, marketing, and sales. This leader will support an incredible team of creatives to do the best work of their careers. This leader will drive curiosity and innovation, be ready to roll up their sleeves and be able to drive influential change on behalf of Meta’s brand. We work in an ambiguous environment so adopting new processes and embracing change is a must. You will have a background in conceptual design systems, experience shipping hardware and a proven track record of successfully leading integrated brand efforts.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
15+ years experience in design, building consumer brands globally
10+ years of demonstrated people management experience coaching and developing team members
Experience leading with creative vision, purpose and innovation
Experience driving business results in ambiguous problem spaces
Experience building portfolio brands and working with brand architecture
Experience across integrated design work: traditional, product, packaging, retail and experiential
Experience managing and leading work with internal and external teams
Experience recruiting talent and developing design careers
Experience collaborating, driving consensus among highly cross functional teams
Experience partnering with and influencing Chief Marketing Officers and other executive stakeholders

Nice To Haves

A link to an online portfolio showcasing your work (include link on your resume)
Experience with brand design definition and leadership
Experience collaborating with or working on a product team
Experience working in a data-driven environment
Experience with consumer electronics and/or consumer technology brands

Responsibilities

Drive the global brand design strategy for Meta’s AR/VR products, packaging, retail and experiential
Elevate the end to end consumer journey people experience with Meta hardware products
Lead an industry-leading team to develop original, breakthrough brand systems, behaviors and design solutions that serve a global audience
Foster and grow brand design through enabling an industry-leading design team
Drive decision making processes and ways of working to improve performance, quality and integrated approaches to execution
Lead with vision, influencing Marketing, Product and Business leadership to develop holistic brand systems