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Creative Director
A Creative Director sets the overall creative vision for an agency, brand, or in-house marketing team, translating business objectives into cohesive creative strategy across advertising, digital, and brand campaigns. They oversee brand development and campaign development from concept through final execution, providing team leadership to designers, copywriters, and art directors while remaining fluent in tools like the Adobe Creative Suite to guide and critique output. This senior role is usually held by an experienced creative professional who has risen through art direction or design ranks and now balances client or executive presentations with mentoring creative staff.
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Sr. Creative Lead - Americas
Under Armour
Full-time · Baltimore, MD · $125,000 – $165,000
Under Armour seeks a senior creative leader to develop and execute brand campaigns across the Americas, working with internal teams and external partners to produce photography, video, and digital content that resonates with athletes. This role suits an experienced creative director comfortable directing on-set production and translating strategic briefs into multi-platform campaigns.
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Creative Director, Editorial
The Atlantic
$200,000 – $275,000
This role leads the visual and creative strategy for a major media organization across print, digital, and broadcast platforms. It suits an experienced design director with strong art direction skills, a portfolio of work with major publications or media outlets, and the ability to build and mentor a creative team.
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Creative Director
Starz
$160,000 – $190,000
This role leads the creative vision for STARZ's marketing campaigns across all media, developing the visual identity and cinematic aesthetic that defines the brand. It suits an experienced design leader who thrives collaborating across departments and mentoring multidisciplinary teams to deliver premium creative work.
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Creative Director, Marketing Campaigns
Suno
Full-time · New York, NY · $225,000 – $277,000
Lead the creative vision for Suno's marketing campaigns across brand, product, and cultural moments, developing distinctive integrated work that drives both growth and cultural impact. This role suits experienced creative directors who excel at translating brand strategy into ambitious campaigns, building multidisciplinary teams, and delivering high-craft work across all media.
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Creative Director
Misfits Market
Full-time · New York, NY · $160,000 – $170,000
Lead the visual direction and creative production for a sustainable e-grocery brand, managing an in-house team while overseeing external partners. This role suits someone with deep expertise in brand systems and packaging who thrives in cross-functional collaboration and hands-on creative direction in a fast-growing startup.
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Creative Director
Render
Remote: United States · $250,000 – $344,000
Render seeks an experienced Creative Director to lead the brand evolution of their developer-focused cloud platform, setting creative vision across all touchpoints while managing a founding team of senior designers. This is a strategic leadership role combining high-level brand positioning with hands-on creative direction, suited for someone who can balance craft excellence with organizational growth in a technical category.
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Group Creative Director - Credit Karma
Intuit
Oakland, CA · $213,500 – $289,000
Lead creative vision and strategy for Credit Karma's member communications across email, push, in-app, and CRM channels, managing a multidisciplinary team to deliver personalized experiences at scale. This role suits an experienced creative leader comfortable building systems and operating models that balance brand excellence with personalization across hundreds of millions of member touchpoints.
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Associate Creative Director, Earned Marketing (Temporary)
The New York Times Company
Contract · New York, NY · $85 – $97 / hour
Lead the creative vision for earned media and partnership activations across The New York Times' major products, developing culturally resonant campaigns designed to generate organic press coverage and social conversation rather than relying on paid advertising. This role suits an experienced creative strategist who can balance high-concept brand thinking with the fast-paced demands of news cycles while managing external partners and internal stakeholder relationships.
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Forward Deployed Creative Designer, Ads
Hightouch
Full-time · Remote, United States · $140,000 – $180,000
This role places a creative professional on the front lines with enterprise brands, helping them use Hightouch's AI platform to generate on-brand ad creative at scale. You'll translate brand guidelines into AI workflows, consult on strategy, and prove that machine-generated ads can match the craft and taste of hand-made work.
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Vice President, Media
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Full-time · Coppell, TX · $191,600 – $273,800
Lead the media strategy and investment for Dave & Buster's and Main Event, focusing on paid and organic search, paid social, and local activation to drive new customer acquisition and same-store sales growth. This role is for an experienced media leader who can connect brand strategy with measurable business results and partner effectively across creative, CRM, and store operations.
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Multi-Channel Marketing Director
CNA Financial
$97,000 – $189,000
Lead the strategy and execution of CNA's email and social media marketing programs, managing campaigns across the full customer lifecycle and driving brand presence through data-informed, multichannel initiatives. This role suits experienced B2B marketers with deep expertise in marketing automation platforms and the leadership capability to influence cross-functional teams.
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Senior Director Global Marketing
Beckman Coulter
Full-time · Waltham, MA · $230,000 – $280,000
Lead global marketing strategy and execution for a life sciences microscopy company, driving demand generation and revenue growth across all business units. This role suits an experienced commercial leader with deep expertise in life sciences marketing, digital channels, and building high-performing global teams.
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Marketing Director Global AI Enablement
Brown–Forman
This role leads the strategic adoption of AI across a global brand's marketing organization, responsible for evaluating the marketing technology stack, designing AI-driven workflows, and guiding teams through organizational change to embed AI efficiencies across brand planning, creative production, media, and measurement. It suits an experienced marketing leader with deep process expertise who thrives at the intersection of marketing, technology, and enterprise transformation.
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Director, US Omnichannel/Digital Engagement
Biogen
Cambridge, MA · $199,000 – $274,000
This role leads omnichannel and digital strategy for pharmaceutical brand launches at Biogen, translating business objectives into AI-powered customer journeys across healthcare provider and patient channels. It suits experienced digital strategists in pharma who can balance strategic vision with operational execution and partner effectively across cross-functional teams.
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