Creative Director

Jamdanceacademy; Hot Springs (AR); On-site; USD 121,000 - 176,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

Citadel is seeking a Creative Director in Hot Springs, AR to lead a small, hands-on creative team. The role drives concept-to-delivery of polished assets, balancing bold ideas with budgets and technical constraints.

You’ll grow a Design Thinking toolkit into a scalable system, lead brainstorming sessions, and transform compliance copy into engaging content. This temporary-hours role includes full benefits and a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

• 10+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame.
• Calm under the design-led chaos a director role tends to generate.

Responsibilities

• Produce polished assets using Design Thinking and Design Sprints from concept through final delivery.
• Balance creative ambition with budget, timeline, and technical constraints.
• Stitch fragmented brand assets into a system that scales past Citadel's next phase.
• Grow a scrappy Design Thinking toolkit into a documented system the next hire inherits.
• Lead brainstorming sessions that surface bold, original ideas.
• Recast dry compliance copy as something a human might willingly read.
• Sustain a 11-week sprint cadence without letting the work go generic.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strong communication

Collaborative mindset

Calm under pressure

Job description

If you've ever redesigned a cereal box in your head while eating breakfast, the Creative Director role at Citadel might be your natural habitat. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $121,000 - $176,000, temporary hours, and a creative team at Citadel that actually hands you the keys.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce polished assets using Design Thinking and Design Sprints from concept through final delivery
• Balance creative ambition with budget, timeline, and technical constraints
• Stitch fragmented brand assets into a system that scales past Citadel's next phase
• Grow a scrappy Design Thinking toolkit into a documented system the next hire inherits
• Lead brainstorming sessions that surface bold, original ideas
• Recast dry compliance copy as something a human might willingly read
• Sustain a 11-week sprint cadence without letting the work go generic

What You'll Bring

• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• 10+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Calm under the design-led chaos a director role tends to generate

The team at Citadel is small, gloriously-unglamorous, and entirely convinced that Hot Springs is the best place to reinvent creative. Feedback flows in every direction at Citadel, from the newest hire to the people signing the $121,000 - $176,000 checks.

Open with $121,000 - $176,000, grow your Iconography under a mentor, lean on full benefits, and flex your hours the way grown-ups should.

No cobwebs here: this creative listing was confirmed open this morning.