Creative Director, Brand (Contract)

Accountabilities:

• • Own creative direction for marketing campaigns and communications from initial concept through launch.
  • Translate business objectives into compelling creative strategies, concepts, platforms, and campaign directions.
  • Establish and maintain a strong creative vision and high standards across paid media, social, retail, launches, partnerships, and other brand initiatives.
  • Develop, challenge, and refine creative concepts to ensure the strongest ideas move forward and remain effective through execution.
  • Stay closely involved in the craft by developing creative directions, mood boards, style frames, visual approaches, and campaign concepts.
  • Art direct creative production across design, motion, illustration, photography, copy, packaging, and other relevant mediums.
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback that materially improves creative work while knowing when to empower the team to own execution.
  • Lead and develop creative talent through coaching, mentorship, candid critique, experimentation, and high standards.
  • Support hiring and help raise the caliber of the creative organization as the team grows.
  • Establish focused and efficient creative review processes that improve decision-making and reduce unnecessary meetings and process.
  • Partner with Marketing and other senior stakeholders to challenge briefs, identify creative opportunities, and connect creative thinking with broader strategy.
  • Present and defend creative concepts with confidence while balancing audience needs, business objectives, timelines, and available resources.
  • Build trust with non-creative stakeholders and help them understand the principles behind effective creative work.
  • Continuously improve creative briefs, development processes, review rituals, and ways of working.
  • Use creative judgment and business awareness to connect brand decisions with outcomes such as sales, retail performance, and market expansion.

  Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in design and creative, including substantial experience directing campaigns, multi-channel initiatives, and creative teams.
  • Proven experience as a Creative Director, Design Lead, or similar senior creative leader in an environment with high standards for creative work.
  • Exceptional visual taste and strong attention to detail across typography, layout, color, composition, and overall craft.
  • Strong conceptual thinking and the ability to translate strategy into distinctive, compelling creative ideas.
  • Demonstrated ability to recognize original ideas, elevate promising concepts, and make sound decisions about creative quality and readiness.
  • Comfortable working hands-on in creative tools such as Figma and contributing directly to design, copy, packaging, or other creative deliverables when needed.
  • Strong ability to work quickly and independently in a small, resource-constrained environment where priorities and information may evolve.
  • Comfortable giving and receiving direct, constructive feedback with a low-ego and collaborative approach.
  • High curiosity and a distinctive perspective, with an ongoing interest in creative culture, design, and innovative work.
  • Ability to connect creative decisions to measurable business outcomes while balancing creative ambition with commercial objectives.
  • Strong ownership, accountability, communication, and organizational skills.
  • Experience building and developing creative teams through coaching, mentorship, hiring, and feedback.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
  • Passion for building brands that are distinctive, playful, culturally relevant, and emotionally engaging.

  Benefits:

  • Annualized compensation of $180,000–$210,000, with final base salary determined by experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location.
  • Six-month contract with potential conversion to a full-time employee.
  • Remote work available across the United States and Canada.
  • Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Supportive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment.
  • Product-driven culture focused on talent, creativity, and individual growth.
  • Hands-on opportunity to work with emerging technologies in the evolving gaming and interactive entertainment space.
  • Direct opportunity to shape brand strategy, creative cult