Job Description
Creative Director
Remote, United States
About Us:
Airbase is the first all-in-one spend management platform that provides companies unparalleled control and visibility into every dollar spent. Finance teams deserve a solution that eliminates the tedious work involved in managing spend and allows them to focus on being strategic partners to the rest of the business. We do that by replacing the multiple systems typically used to manage spend with a single platform that handles every workflow including expense approvals and payments (physical cards, virtual cards, ACH, check), while also automating away the bulk of spend-related accounting.
About the Role:
We are looking now for a Creative Director with experience leading creative teams of some of the most innovative B2B brands, to elevate our brand across all touchpoints. This role will initially manage one freelance and one contract designer and will build a team of freelance designers and a roster of other media producers, as well as hire and onboard additional resources as we grow.
What You’ll Do:
- Own all marketing and brand design at Airbase.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders and outside agency partners to set the creative strategy to bring the brand to life across initiatives, channels, and products.
- Oversee the prioritization and assignment of all creative requests, and establish processes to keep the team happy, creatively inspired, and focused on priorities.
- Create and champion a practical brand style guide to drive brand consistency across all touchpoints.
- Develop an iterative approach to cultivate a testing culture for creative assets that drives performance.
- Creatively explore, set trends, and push boundaries.
- Onboard and guide the work of creative agencies and freelancers according to specialized skills required, budgets, timelines, and scope.
- Partner with marketing stakeholders to ensure great user experiences through all marketing channels, optimized for response.
- Partner with our product organization to ensure that we deliver a consistent brand experience from prospect to customer.
- Plan for hiring and resourcing needs to grow our in-house team as required.
About You:
- Have 5+ years’ experience as a creative leader with an excellent B2B portfolio, must have worked in-house for creative/design management.
- Have a deep understanding of brand, visual design, writing, and user experience to design inspiring and intuitive experiences.
- Have experience leading and mentoring diverse teams of designers, copywriters, video editors, animators, motion designers, and production designers.
- Be a strong individual contributor.
- Have led an in-house creative team that has developed creative campaigns for acquisition marketing in addition to brand marketing.
- Be experienced in all forms and mediums (website design, digital, response-based email, print, out-of-home advertising, experiential and earned media, etc.)
- Be comfortable with ambiguity and demonstrate a proven ability to create clarity in it.
- Have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Be comfortable working and closely collaborating with marketing and sales, product, and UX/UI design teams.
- Have experience in performance marketing across channels.
- Be able to communicate effectively with senior management, with the ability to translate creative strategy into business performance.
- Have an outstanding portfolio to share with your application.
We offer competitive cash compensation and equity. We’re a remote team and are happy to work with candidates from anywhere in the world.