Creative Director

Role Overview

Audiohook is looking for a seasoned Creative Director to steer the creative vision and execution across marketing efforts, branding, and client campaigns. This leadership role requires a hands-on approach to set the creative direction, nurture a talented team, and transform business goals into captivating creative executions, especially within the audio advertising sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and define the creative strategy for Audiohook's brand, marketing initiatives, and client-based campaigns.
• Manage the creative process from ideation to final delivery, ensuring all outputs are high-quality and aligned with brand standards.
• Collaborate closely with teams in Marketing, Sales, and Product to ensure creative efforts align with company objectives.
• Recruit, lead, and support a team consisting of designers, copywriters, and other creative professionals, including in-house and freelance members.
• Maintain and enhance brand guidelines, visual identities, and messaging frameworks.
• Effectively communicate creative ideas and justifications to internal stakeholders and external clients or partners as needed.
• Oversee project timelines, budgets, and manage relationships with vendors and freelancers.
• Keep abreast of latest trends in digital advertising, with a focus on audio and podcast media.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of six years in creative leadership roles such as Creative Director or Associate Creative Director, preferably in advertising, media, or adtech.
• Proven success managing creative teams and executing diverse campaigns across multiple media formats and channels.
• Strong portfolio showcasing conceptual ideas, brand storytelling, and skillful design and copy execution.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities with capacity to promote creative concepts at all organizational levels.
• Experience overseeing creative operations including managing schedules, budgets, and working cross-functionally.
• Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and multitask effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in crafting or supervising audio advertising and podcast-specific creative content such as host-read scripts and produced audio spots.
• Understanding of the podcast and audio media space, recognizing its unique creative challenges and opportunities.
• Experience with adtech or programmatic/digital media platforms.

Benefits and Compensation

• Fully remote work setup.
• Competitive salary range between $90,000 and $100,000 plus equity participation.
• Performance-based bonus opportunities.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Additional perks including daily lunch allowances, monthly reimbursement for wifi, cell phone, subscriptions, and annual hardware stipends.
• Flexible paid time off and a remote-friendly organizational culture.
• Company-wide biannual offsite meetings.
• Chance to significantly influence and develop a core function within a rapidly growing tech company.