Creative Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Create innovative and original concepts for significant campaigns, brand initiatives, and multi-channel marketing efforts.

• Present and advocate for creative ideas to senior marketing leadership and other key stakeholders.

• Define the overarching creative vision for athenahealth's market presence.

• Collaborate with stakeholders early in the process to ensure creative ideas are strategically grounded.

• Inspire the team to pursue bolder and more ambitious creative solutions.

• Guide, mentor, and develop designers, copywriters, and other creative personnel.

• Recruit and nurture creative talent.

• Foster a culture that promotes creative risk-taking and high-quality conceptual output.

• Provide constructive feedback and direction to enhance team members' skills.

• Create opportunities for creative development through new tools, techniques, and external inspiration.

• Act as the leading creative voice in strategic discussions with Brand, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Segment, and Customer Marketing.

• Align creative aspirations with production capabilities, timelines, and resource availability.

• Collaborate with Brand to articulate brand identity in innovative and unique ways.

• Advocate for creative excellence and the necessary resources and time for development.

• Stay updated on creative trends, tools, and techniques pertinent to B2B marketing and healthcare technology.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Design, Fine Arts, Communications, or a related discipline is required.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in creative positions, encompassing concept development, art direction, or copywriting.

• A minimum of 5 years in a creative leadership role, with experience managing and developing other creative professionals.

• A strong portfolio showcasing creative work.

• A proven history of developing and pitching large-scale creative concepts that are implemented at the enterprise level.

• Experience in B2B SaaS, healthcare technology, enterprise software, or similarly complex organizations is preferred.

• A strong and unique creative perspective.

• Capability to generate original concepts instead of merely iterating on existing ideas.

• Proficiency in pitching and defending creative work convincingly to senior stakeholders, including navigating pushback and negotiating creative direction.

• Ability to harmonize creative ambitions with brand guidelines and business objectives.

• Proven track record in recruiting, mentoring, and developing creative talent.

• Experience in cultivating a creative team culture that encourages experimentation and high-quality conceptual work.

• Strong feedback and coaching abilities.

• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills.

• Competence in functioning within a matrixed organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus plan, subject to role eligibility.

• Variable compensation plan, based on role eligibility.

• Equity plans, contingent on role eligibility.

• Health and financial benefits.

• Commuter support, depending on location.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Tuition assistance.

• Employee resource groups.

• Flexible work arrangements and digital collaboration tools.

• Company-sponsored book clubs.

• External speakers.

• Hackathons.

• A learning-focused company culture.

• Engaged team support.

• An inclusive work environment.

• Collaborative workspaces.

• Some offices are dog-friendly.