Creative Director

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