Creative Director

The role

The Creative Director will own the company's visual identity and brand expression across all marketing surfaces. This senior role involves operationalizing the brand identity system, managing a design team, and directing integrated campaigns.

What you will do

• Operationalize the incoming brand identity system
• Own the marketing design system to scale across surfaces
• Establish governance and standards for the brand system
• Act as the final quality gate on brand expression
• Concept and direct integrated campaigns from brief to launch
• Develop narratives and art-direct video production
• Own marketing web and landing page design
• Direct lifecycle and product marketing creative
• Hire, manage, and develop an in-house design team
• Brief, direct, and evaluate agencies and freelancers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of brand and creative experience
• 2+ years leading a team as an ACD, CD or design lead
• A portfolio built on systems
• Storytelling range to develop narrative
• Range across brand campaign work and performance creative
• Desire to remain hands-on in the work
• Fluency with AI tooling in the creative process
• Track record of managing designers and directing external agencies
• Comfort with performance data

Nice to have

• Fintech, brokerage, trading, crypto or exchange experience, or genuine curiosity about markets and retail traders
• Experience operationalizing an inherited identity system rather than only building from scratch
• Experience running a marketing design system alongside a separately owned product design system
• Experience in a constrained or regulated environment - finance, healthcare, insurance, pharma or gaming
• Practicing a craft outside the day job - photography, film, writing or illustration
• Agency background plus in-house leadership experience

Benefits

• 401K plan with up to 3.5% company match
• Annual paid time off allowance of 23 days per year
• Seven paid holidays
• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

About the company

NinjaTrader is an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker. The company provides products and services to empower traders to navigate financial markets.