Creative Director

The role

You will lead a nine-person creative team through a brand refresh and shape how the brand is expressed across global campaigns, web, advertising, and product launches. You will partner with brand strategy and other stakeholders to turn complex narratives into compelling creative work.

What you will do

• Lead the completion and global application of Vanta’s brand refresh.
• Set and maintain a high creative bar across visual systems and applications.
• Lead, coach, and develop a nine-person creative team.
• Build a reliable creative operating model including intake, briefing, and capacity planning.
• Partner with Brand Strategy, Comms, Growth, Product Marketing, Web, Events, and Product Design.
• Guide the team through focused creative sprints for major campaigns.
• Bring broad cultural and creative perspective to Vanta’s work.
• Use agency and external partners selectively.
• Shape the long-term structure, capabilities, and talent plan for the creative organization.
• Protect Vanta and customer data in how the team operates and delivers results.

Required qualifications

• Strong design-led background.
• Portfolio demonstrating personal creative work and work led through other designers and creative teams.
• Meaningful in-house experience.
• Experience creating thoughtful integration between product and brand experiences.
• Experience leading and developing senior creative talent through mentorship and feedback.
• Experience building creative systems and processes from scratch.
• Strong operational judgment across intake, prioritization, and delivery.
• Ability to build trust quickly with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to improvise under constrained timelines or changing priorities.
• Comfortable working primarily within U.S. time zones.
• Ability to travel several times per year for events and team off-sites.
• Use AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes.

Nice to have

• In-house experience within a SaaS or technology company serving a B2B audience.
• Agency experience or another source of broad creative perspective.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy
• 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays

About the company

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. The company provides a Trust Management Platform to help companies build, maintain, and demonstrate trust in a real-time and transparent way.