Creative & Studio Director
Lead an in-house creative studio producing performance-focused assets for user acquisition across discovery platforms. This hands-on role combines team leadership, creative execution, production operations, and data-informed iteration.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, hire, and manage a multidisciplinary creative studio team.
- Personally concept, script, and edit creative assets as needed.
- Own the creative roadmap, timelines, capacity planning, and delivery of strategic initiatives.
- Manage a shared creative pipeline that provides visibility into briefs, production, and delivery.
- Oversee creative development, shoots, post-production, and vendor relationships.
- Partner with user acquisition, brand, product marketing, and data teams on acquisition campaigns.
- Manage creative assets from briefing and scripting through production, editing, versioning, and post-launch analysis.
- Build repeatable processes for creative testing, performance tracking, and iteration.
- Use performance data to guide creative strategy and continuous improvement.
- Deliver internal event and company-wide design requests to schedule and brand standards.
- Maintain storytelling, production quality, and brand consistency while supporting high-volume output.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in creative leadership, ideally in performance-focused environments such as consumer technology, direct-to-consumer, or growth marketing.
- Strong understanding of creative requirements for YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and other discovery channels.
- Experience managing and scaling in-house creative and production teams, including hiring and performance management.
- Experience overseeing in-house shoots and post-production workflows.
- Hands-on experience with AI and video or design tools such as Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Figma.
- Ability to interpret performance data and use insights to guide creative decisions.
- Experience managing high-volume creative workflows with tools such as Monday, Asana, or Air.
- Strong project management and cross-functional communication skills.
- A portfolio of recent work personally created, not solely work produced by a team.
Nice to have
- Experience working with growth and media-buying teams.
- Familiarity with A/B testing, creative analytics platforms, and performance dashboards.
- Interest in storytelling, branding, and rapid creative experimentation.