Head of Creative & Design

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Creative & Design based in United States.** This is a senior creative leadership role focused on shaping and elevating a global brand across every major customer touchpoint. You will define creative vision and design direction while leading a major global rebrand from concept through execution. The role spans brand identity, campaigns, digital experiences, web, social, video, motion, events, and executive communications. You will lead and develop an in-house creative team while coordinating agencies and freelance partners. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on creative direction and a strong focus on quality and consistency. You will also build scalable systems, processes, and design tools that help teams move faster while staying aligned with the brand. This is an opportunity to build a high-performing creative function and create distinctive work in a fast-moving global B2B environment. ### Accountabilities: - Own the global creative vision and establish design direction across brand touchpoints, markets, channels, and customer experiences. - Lead a major global rebrand from initial concept and visual identity development through implementation, rollout, and ongoing evolution. - Lead, mentor, and develop an in-house creative team while effectively managing agency, freelance, and external creative partners. - Serve as a brand guardian, maintaining a high standard of creative quality, consistency, and brand expression across regions and channels. - Partner with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, PR, Social, and other stakeholders to develop integrated campaigns that deliver compelling brand experiences. - Own and evolve the visual identity and design system, including typography, imagery, motion, templates, guidelines, and related creative assets. - Provide creative direction across web, digital experiences, video, motion, events, sales materials, and executive communications. - Establish efficient creative processes covering briefing, reviews, prioritization, resource planning, approvals, and quality standards. - Translate complex or technical concepts into clear, engaging, and visually compelling creative work. - Introduce and responsibly integrate AI tools into creative workflows to improve speed, scalability, ideation, and production efficiency while maintaining originality and quality. - Collaborate with senior stakeholders to establish creative priorities and ensure design supports broader business and brand objectives. - Build the systems, guidelines, and reusable design tools that enable teams across the organization to work efficiently and consistently. - Continuously raise the quality and effectiveness of creative output while developing a trusted, high-performing creative function. ### Requirements - 8+ years of experience in senior design, creative leadership, or a comparable role, ideally within B2B technology, SaaS, professional services, or another complex business environment. - Strong creative portfolio demonstrating expertise in brand identity, design direction, campaigns, and visually compelling work across multiple channels. - Proven experience leading or playing a significant role in a major rebrand or large-scale brand refresh. - Broad expertise across brand strategy and identity, integrated campaigns, digital design, web, motion, video, and related creative disciplines. - Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing creative teams, as well as managing agencies, freelancers, and external partners. - Ability to operate strategically while remaining comfortable with hands-on creative direction and detailed design work when required. - Strong ability to simplify complex, technical, or business concepts into clear and compelling creative narratives. - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence presenting creative concepts, providing direction, and influencing senior stakeholders. - Experience incorporating AI tools into creative workflows and understanding how to use emerging technology while maintaining creative quality and originality. - Strong proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud. - Excellent organizational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and creative initiatives. - A collaborative, curious, commercially aware, and solutions-oriented approach to creative leadership. - Experience working in a private-equity-backed, high-growth, or fast-moving B2B organization is advantageous. ### Benefits - Remote work opportunity within the United States. - High-impact leadership role shaping a global creative identity and major rebrand. - Opportunity to influence brand experiences across campaigns, digital products, events, social, sales, and executive communications. - Continuous learning and career development opportunities. - Leadership and team-building opportunities within a growing global creative function. - Exposure to AI-enabled creative workflows and emerging technologies. - Opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across marketing, product, demand generation, PR, social, and other functions. - Inclusive culture that values diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and individual contributions. - Opportunity to build scalable creative systems, processes, and design tools with organization-wide impact. - Accessibility support and reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process.