Creative Director

Filetwigbay; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness budget

Retirement matching

Clear milestones for promotion to next

Job summary

BKD in Fremont, CA is seeking a Creative Director to lead the creative team and translate rough briefs into polished Design Sprints and production-ready files. This hybrid role blends creative leadership with hands-on delivery across channels, ensuring the brand promise remains strong while adapting to each dialect.

The candidate brings over a decade of experience, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to mentor others while navigating fast-moving projects in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Director-level experience in a hybrid role.
• Curiosity and drive to sharpen creative craft.
• Ability to surface risk early.
• Strong written communication.
• Empathy for constructive feedback.
• Self-direction in a collaborative chat-driven environment.
• 10+ years of experience with strong instincts.

Responsibilities

• Support director designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Keep current with HTML/CSS and Design Sprints to expand the creative toolkit
• Deliver pixel-perfect, production-ready files to engineering and print teams
• Keep the solutions-focused brand promise intact while every channel demands its own dialect
• Research trends and competitor work to keep BKD's output ahead of the curve
• Shape the unboxing moment Fremont buyers screenshot and share unprompted
• Turn rough briefs into polished Design Sprints deliverables the creative team can ship

Skills

Director-level experience

Hybrid role

Creative craft

Written communication

Empathy

Self-direction

10+ years

Design Sprints

Tools

Design Sprints

Job description

From the kerning nobody notices to the concept everybody remembers, the Creative Director at BKD carries the whole spectrum. This creative role at BKD turns 10 years into $194,000 - $265,000 and turns $194,000 - $265,000 into a stake in what comes next.

Key Responsibilities

• Support director designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Keep current with HTML/CSS and Design Sprints to expand the creative toolkit
• Deliver pixel-perfect, production-ready files to engineering and print teams
• Keep the solutions-focused brand promise intact while every channel demands its own dialect
• Research trends and competitor work to keep BKD's output ahead of the curve
• Shape the unboxing moment Fremont buyers screenshot and share unprompted
• Turn rough briefs into polished Design Sprints deliverables the creative team can ship

What You'll Bring

• Experience at the director level inside a hybrid role
• Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your creative craft
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel
• 10+ years that left you with strong instincts and few illustrations

BKD partners with organizations across Fremont, CA to bring flexible thinking to everyday creative challenges. Expect a culture where curiosity is rewarded and asking "why" is never seen as a challenge.

We provide $194,000 - $265,000, a wellness budget, retirement matching, and clear milestones for moving up to the next director.

Live in Fremont, CA as of this hour, with reviews ongoing.