Creative Director

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Robert Half's Brand Design Studio

• Define and convey the creative vision for marketing, communications, and brand experiences

• Lead or guide the development of creative concepts, campaign ideas, visual strategies, and design solutions across various channels and touchpoints

• Manage the evolution, governance, implementation, and adoption of Robert Half's visual identity system

• Establish and uphold design standards, visual frameworks, creative guidelines, and best practices

• Transform brand strategy, messaging, and audience insights into visual representations across campaigns, content, communications, digital experiences, presentations, events, and customer-facing materials

• Evaluate and direct creative work to ensure quality, consistency, relevance, craftsmanship, effectiveness, and brand integrity

• Act as a senior internal creative leader during significant agency-led creative projects

• Collaborate with marketing, communications, corporate services, UX, media design, channel teams, and business stakeholders

• Convert briefs, messaging inputs, and audience insights into creative strategies, concepts, design approaches, production plans, and deliverables

• Facilitate collaboration with external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and internal teams

• Lead and nurture a multidisciplinary team of designers, art directors, production specialists, and creative professionals

• Ensure the delivery of high-quality creative production, visual design, digital, presentation, event, campaign, and internal creative assets

• Define standards for intake, prioritization, briefing, review, production, workflow, and delivery in conjunction with the PMO leader

• Oversee creative resources, agencies, freelancers, vendors, production partners, and creative technology investments

• Enhance capabilities in concept development, design systems, digital experiences, motion design, AI-enabled creativity, presentation design, and emerging technologies

• Promote a high-performance creative culture and continuous improvement

• Mentor and motivate the team to advance creative thinking, design quality, storytelling, execution standards, and creative output

• Enhance creative quality, visual storytelling, design craftsmanship, brand identity adoption, stakeholder confidence, timely delivery, project cycle time, resource utilization, production efficiency, team capability, engagement, talent development, and creative maturity

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Fine Arts, Marketing, or a related field is required

• Over 15 years of progressive experience in creative, design, advertising, creative services, or brand-related roles

• More than 7 years of experience in leading creative teams, agencies, studios, or design organizations

• Proven experience in leading multidisciplinary creative teams responsible for concept development and production delivery

• Demonstrated experience in owning or directing visual identity systems, design standards, design systems, or creative guidelines

• Experience in developing integrated creative concepts and production-ready creative across digital, social, web, presentations, events, campaigns, video, motion, and print channels

• Collaborative experience with brand, marketing, communications, content, digital, UX, production, agency, and business stakeholders

• Preferred experience in B2B, professional services, consulting, technology, staffing, or related industries

• Skills in creative direction

• Expertise in creative concept development

• Experience in visual identity system ownership

• Leadership in design systems

• Proficiency in art direction and visual storytelling

• Leadership in creative services production

• Experience in integrated campaign concepting and execution

• Skills in creative operations and resource management

• Management experience with agencies, freelancers, vendors, and production partners

• Team leadership, coaching, and talent development abilities

• Knowledge of creative innovation, AI-enabled creativity, and emerging creative technologies

• Strategic thinking, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Presence in executive settings and strong presentation skills

• Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication abilities

• Capability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment

• Proficiency in articulating and defending creative direction, design rationale, and production recommendations

• Ability to provide constructive creative feedback and facilitate productive critique processes

• Strong relationship-building skills across marketing, communications, creative, digital, agency, vendor, and business stakeholders

• Capacity to coach, inspire, and elevate expectations for creative thinking and execution quality

• Expert knowledge of modern design tools and creative platforms

• Expertise in visual identity systems, design systems, brand governance, and creative guidelines

• Experience with workflows for digital, social, web, presentations, events, motion, video, and print design

• Understanding of creative production, photography, video, motion, and agency production processes

• Familiarity with AI-enabled creative tools and workflows

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Copilot

• Successful completion of a background check is required as a condition of employment

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental)

• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts

• Life and accident insurance

• Adoption and fertility assistance

• Paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time

• Up to 17 days of Choice Time Off (CTO) per calendar year for new hires, prorated based on hours worked

• Up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year

• 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible)

• Employer match of 100% on the first 3% of contributions for eligible employees

• Reasonable accommodation assistance for applicants with disabilities