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This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Creative Director, Brand (Contract) based in United States. This senior creative leadership role will shape the creative direction and brand expression of a fast-moving, design-led organization. You’ll turn business objectives into distinctive campaign ideas and guide creative work from concept through launch across multiple channels. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on creative involvement, spanning design, motion, illustration, photography, copy, packaging, social, retail, and partnerships. You’ll lead and develop a high-performing creative team while establishing strong standards for craft, conceptual thinking, and execution. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll bring creative thinking into strategy and help build a brand that is memorable, playful, and emotionally resonant. As the organization grows, you’ll also help shape its creative culture, processes, and operating rhythms. 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.

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