Creative Director

Bumble; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Life and disability insurance

401k with company match

Wellness programs

Job summary

Bumble is seeking a seasoned Creative Director to partner with our CEO/Founder and leadership to elevate storytelling across brand initiatives. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, translating visions into bold, effective work while aligning with strategic objectives and budgets.

You will guide creative output across marketing, product, and partnerships, balancing innovation with brand consistency in a fast-paced environment. AI fluency is valued to amplify impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of creative leadership experience.
• Strong cross-functional, global team management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation.
• Experience introducing new tools, processes, workflows or technologies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the creative function across brand initiatives.
• Translate strategy into bold, executable campaigns.
• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary creative team.
• Partner with CEO, CMO, and marketing leaders.
• Ensure deliverables meet timelines and budgets.
• Collaborate with agencies and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand strategy

Storytelling

Team management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Job description

About Us

Bumble's Creative Studio is an exciting inflection point, supporting Bumble Inc.'s portfolio of apps globally. We’re looking to hire a seasoned Creative Director who will partner with our CEO/Founder, Chief Marketing Officer and Marketing leadership to contribute their storytelling skills to bring equality to millions of relationships. As Creative Director, You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop highly effective creative work that translates visions into bold and effective work across brand initiatives.

The Creative Director will work to support internal leaders across marketing, media, product, and partnerships. This will be a hands‑on role translating internal “client” objectives into clear, executable strategies, while leading and inspiring an evolving internal Creative team and partnering with external agencies. You should have a relentless work ethic, unmatched storytelling skills, and a deep background managing teams, delivering against client briefs and strategic objectives. This role will report to our Chief Marketing Officer and act as a key partner to them.

What You Will Do

• Oversee the creative function
• Bring a strong and informed decision on what effective creative looks like at each stage of the funnel and translate high-level ideas and inspiration into clear, bold, executable creative strategies.
• Steward Brand Identity and creative guidelines across multiple markets.
• Challenge briefs and proactively drive the creative work forward to improve quality, bringing diverse stakeholders on the journey with you.
• Act as a key partner to the CEO, who will lead on brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas that can become impactful executions. You will play a pivotal role in elevating the creative ideation and campaign development to the next level.
• Lead the team by example by being on the tools creating the work itself, as well as reviewing the work of others.
• Partner with internal teams and agency resources to drive high-quality creative work that is aligned with strategic goals and timelines.
• Oversee and manage creative team projects supporting marketing, partnership, experiential, and digital activations, driving impactful growth.
• Lead the team to deliver creative excellence from ideation to production, ensuring adherence to requested deliverables, timelines and budgets.
• Manage, motivate and mentor team members to perform highly and grow professionally.
• Be extremely adaptable as Bumble evolves over time and enthusiastically champion innovation throughout the team.

About You

• 10+ years of Creative experience: Ideally the candidate will be from a design background with exceptional craft skills, but also be able to create brilliant conceptual ideas.
• Strong leadership skills with a high level of emotional intelligence to inspire and manage creative teams in dynamic environments.
• You have great communication skills, both verbal and written, and are confident presenting and explaining your creative decisions to stakeholders.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation—and comfortable leading teams through it
• Experience introducing new tools, processes, workflows or technologies to improve creative output
• You have an expert command of creative tools: Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, and embracing the future; you're comfortable exploring emerging tools, and leveraging AI to help drive efficiencies.
• Solid knowledge of motion principles and best practices.
• Solid understanding of the digital, video, social, and content space
• History of successful delivery of impactful creative on time and within budget
• Must be able to work cross-functionally across multiple departments and across time zones
• Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and creatively demanding environment
• You have excellent time management skills, strong organisational skills and great attention to detail, ensuring our work always communicates clearly and is on brand.
• Enthusiasm for balancing many projects at the same time under tight deadlines and production schedules
• Deep understanding and love of popular culture
• Excellent working knowledge of design and copy, with a strong strategic and operational foundation
• You are passionate about our brand vision and values.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Benefits & Perks

• Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
• Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
• Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
• 401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
• Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
• Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
• Premium App Access

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For Example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

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155000 - 185000 USD a year