Creative Director

Energy Innovation Corp; Fort Smith (AR); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexibility

Job summary

CliftonLarsonAllen in Fort Smith, AR seeks a Creative Director to lead on-brand visual concepts across digital and print and to champion user-centered design. You will turn rough briefs into polished deliverables, resurface archives for fresh motifs, and balance speed with quality under hybrid deadlines.

We value diplomacy to align stakeholders, clear documentation, and a track record of quietly ambitious shipping.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience guiding design processes under tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to align stakeholders with conflicting views.
• Strong written communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Create on-brand visual concepts across digital and print channels.
• Advocate user-centered design in every project.
• Transform rough briefs into polished written deliverables.
• Refresh archives to revive motifs for new campaigns.
• Balance speed and quality to meet hybrid deadlines.
• Combine logo design with animation thinking to solve problems.
• Develop a campaign system from a single tagline.

Skills

Storyboarding

User-centered design

Documentation

Stakeholder alignment

Design leadership

Tools

Lottie

Job description

Quiet confidence, loud portfolio, zero ego about the edits: that’s the Creative Director CliftonLarsonAllen is ready to welcome to Fort Smith, AR. What sets the offer apart is trust — $89,000 - $131,000 and hybrid hours are nice, but the creative ownership is the headline.

Key Responsibilities

• Design on-brand visual concepts across digital and print channels for CliftonLarsonAllen
• Champion a sharp-but-gentle approach to user-centered design in every project
• Turn rough briefs into polished Written Communication deliverables the creative team can ship
• Resurface old CliftonLarsonAllen archives for motifs worth a second, sharper life
• Trade pixel polish for speed when a hybrid deadline says you must
• Pair Logo Design craft with Lottie thinking to solve fuzzy creative problems
• Wring a campaign system from an one-line creative tagline

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on proficiency with Storyboarding, ideally paired with Lottie
• Track record that proves you can quietly-ambitious ship under deadline pressure
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don’t agree yet
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• 10 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it

CliftonLarsonAllen makes User Research look simple, which anyone in creative knows is the customer-obsessed hardest thing to pull off. We prize follow-through: when someone here commits to something, the team can count on it.

We seal the offer with $89,000 - $131,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, the four reasons AR talent picks CliftonLarsonAllen first.

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