Senior Manager, Creative Direction
About The Position
Lead creative direction for priority workstreams across campaigns, events, environments, digital experiences, presentations, social, executive communications, and special projects. Translate the Executive Creative Director’s vision into actionable creative routes, including concepts, moodboards, storyframes, motion studies, experience ideas, and design systems. Elevate brand experience across physical and digital touchpoints, ensuring work is cohesive, modern, brand-right, and aligned to business and audience needs. Drive motion and visual storytelling quality, including typography-in-motion, pacing, transitions, narrative flow, video graphics, event screens, and presentation storytelling. Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate concepting and exploration, generating visual directions, rapid iterations, imagery studies, and early prototypes while applying responsible AI guardrails. Build scalable creative systems and toolkits such as campaign kits, event packages, social templates, presentation frameworks, motion libraries, guidelines, and repeatable design patterns. Run creative reviews and quality gates, providing clear feedback that improves craft, reduces rework, and keeps work moving toward aligned decisions. Coach and enable designers and partners, sharing methods, examples, templates, and playbooks that raise team capability in brand experience, motion, AI workflows, and systems thinking. Manage vendors, freelancers, or agency partners as needed, maintaining creative consistency, quality, and delivery readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Design, Motion Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Experience Design, Film/Animation, or a related field.
- 9+ years of experience in brand, visual, motion, or experience design across digital and physical applications.
- 2+ years in a lead, manager, player/coach, or creative direction capacity.
- Portfolio demonstrating high-craft creative direction, systems thinking, motion/storytelling capability, and concept-to-execution leadership.
- Experience translating brand strategy and executive creative direction into cohesive creative outputs, systems, and toolkits.
- Demonstrated use of generative AI or modern creative workflows for concepting, visual exploration, rapid iteration, or scalable system development.
- Strong communication, critique, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building scalable brand systems, templates, motion libraries, campaign kits, event packages, or reusable creative toolkits.
- Strong understanding of brand governance and quality standards across web, social, campaigns, events, executive communications, and digital experiences.
- Environmental or experiential design experience, including events, signage, spatial graphics, wayfinding, or activations.
- Strong motion design, visual storytelling, and executive narrative capability.
- Working knowledge of accessibility considerations for motion and content, including readability, captions/subtitles, reduced-motion awareness, and clarity across formats.
- Experience with creative automation, versioning, localization, modular systems, or scaled production workflows.
- Experience directing external partners while maintaining craft quality and creative alignment.
- Experience operating in a global matrix or solid-line/dotted-line collaboration model.
Responsibilities
- Lead creative direction for priority workstreams across campaigns, events, environments, digital experiences, presentations, social, executive communications, and special projects.
- Translate the Executive Creative Director’s vision into actionable creative routes, including concepts, moodboards, storyframes, motion studies, experience ideas, and design systems.
- Elevate brand experience across physical and digital touchpoints, ensuring work is cohesive, modern, brand-right, and aligned to business and audience needs.
- Drive motion and visual storytelling quality, including typography-in-motion, pacing, transitions, narrative flow, video graphics, event screens, and presentation storytelling.
- Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate concepting and exploration, generating visual directions, rapid iterations, imagery studies, and early prototypes while applying responsible AI guardrails.
- Build scalable creative systems and toolkits such as campaign kits, event packages, social templates, presentation frameworks, motion libraries, guidelines, and repeatable design patterns.
- Run creative reviews and quality gates, providing clear feedback that improves craft, reduces rework, and keeps work moving toward aligned decisions.
- Coach and enable designers and partners, sharing methods, examples, templates, and playbooks that raise team capability in brand experience, motion, AI workflows, and systems thinking.
- Manage vendors, freelancers, or agency partners as needed, maintaining creative consistency, quality, and delivery readiness.
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- employee wellness
- life and disability insurance
- a retirement savings plan
- paid holidays
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
