Creative Director
Creative Director to shape Sesame's visual, auditory, and experiential brand identity from day one. Own creative across campaigns, content, social, experiential, and hardware/software touchpoints while building and running an in-house studio, directing agencies, and partnering with Product and Industrial Design. Requires 8+ years consumer brand experience with hands-on authorship and in-house background.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own creative direction across the full funnel: campaigns, editorial content, social, experiential activations, paid amplification, web, and more.
- Make work yourself — concept, write, and art direct — while raising the bar for everything you don’t personally touch.
- Build and run a mini in-house content studio: manage an internal creative or freelance team, and establish the workflows and production rhythms to ship consistently at a high bar.
- Manage external agencies and production partners from concept to final delivery.
- Develop brand collaborations that build Sesame’s world and earn cultural relevance.
- Partner with Product and Industrial Design to keep one coherent creative language across our app, our hardware, and every channel in between.
- Partner with brand and product marketing to develop campaigns and content that delights users and breaks through in culture.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of creative experience with consumer brands, and a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, taste, and range — editorial, campaign, social, and ideally experiential.
- Hands-on authorship: work you personally wrote, art directed, or edited — not only oversaw.
- Experience directing external agencies, production partners, or freelancers.
- In-house experience at a consumer brand (agency experience is welcome, but not agency-only).
- Comfort partnering with product and growth marketing teams.
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or New York (NYC-based candidates should expect to travel to SF as needed).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or running an in-house creative or content studio, including managing creatives.
- Proven fluency in paid-channel creative (paid social, app install, OOH amplification) and iterating against results.
- A track record of brand collaborations or cultural partnerships.
- Roots in premium worlds — fashion, luxury, media/publishing, or culture-forward DTC — paired with comfort operating at startup pace.
- 0→1 experience launching a brand or product.
- Experience with both software and hardware consumer products.
Benefits
- 401(k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
Skills
Brand Development, Creative Direction, Art Direction, Content Strategy, Campaign Development, Agency Management, Studio Management, Brand Collaboration, Paid Media Creative, Consumer Branding
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