# Creative Director

**Company:** [Sesame](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sesame)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $200k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** brand development, creative direction, art direction, Content Strategy, campaign development, agency management, studio management, brand collaboration, paid media creative, consumer branding
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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