Creative Director

Fortune Media (USA) Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Health/dental/vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts (HSA)

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Dependent care benefits

Commuter benefits

Cell phone benefit

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Fortune Media (USA) Corporation in New York is seeking a senior creative leader to direct Fortune’s global brand across online and offline media. You will shape visual identities, lead major franchises, and set cohesive design systems spanning newsletters, social, video, events, print, and web.

You will guide the design team and external creatives, supervise freelancers, and ensure high craft standards while balancing strategy with hands-on execution across multiple high-visibility projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant creative leadership experience in design, publishing, media, agency, or a fast-paced brand environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional design, brand identity, art direction, typography, and visual storytelling across online and offline channels.
• Experience leading creative work for a recognized media, consumer, cultural, or premium brand with a high bar for craft and consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to develop visual identities and flexible design systems across marketing, print, web, social, video, and events.
• Experience managing and mentoring designers, as well as directing freelance creatives, illustrators, photographers, and other external partners.
• Proven project-management experience, including commissioning creative work, negotiating rates and usage, and prioritizing resources.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and project-management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution and manage multiple high-visibility projects.
• Deep fluency in industry-standard design tools; familiarity with evolving digital brand-management tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction and visual design of Fortune’s global brand across online and offline media and marketing.
• Shape the visual identity of Fortune franchises, lists, rankings, and special projects.
• Establish and maintain cohesive visual systems across newsletters, social, video, events, print, web, and other brand touchpoints.
• Guide the design team and external creative partners, providing clear direction, constructive feedback, and high standards for craft and execution.
• Commission and direct illustration, photography, typography, and other creative assets, matching talent and visual approaches to each project’s brand objectives.
• Manage relationships with freelance artists and vendors, including rate negotiation, onboarding, and allocation of creative resources.
• Lead logo and identity development for Fortune franchises, accolades, and live-media programs.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to evolve Fortune’s brand standards, including typography, color, graphic systems, and guidelines; identify scalable ways to make these resources accessible across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic creative partner to teams developing new video, social, event, and franchises, ensuring that new initiatives launch with a distinctive and consistent visual identity.

Skills

Creative leadership

Brand identity

Art direction

Typography

Visual storytelling

Mentoring designers

Project management

Communication

Strategic + hands-on

Adobe Creative Suite

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction and visual design of Fortune’s global brand across online and offline media and marketing.
• Shape the visual identity of major Fortune franchises, lists, rankings, and special projects—including Fortune 500, Most Powerful Women, and emerging properties.
• Establish and maintain cohesive visual systems across newsletters, social, video, events, print, web, and other brand touchpoints.
• Guide the design team and external creative partners, providing clear direction, constructive feedback, and high standards for craft and execution.
• Commission and direct illustration, photography, typography, and other creative assets, matching talent and visual approaches to each project’s brand objectives.
• Manage relationships with freelance artists and vendors, including rate negotiation, onboarding, and allocation of creative resources.
• Lead logo and identity development for Fortune franchises, accolades, and live-media programs.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to evolve Fortune’s brand standards, including typography, color, graphic systems, and guidelines; identify scalable ways to make these resources accessible across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic creative partner to teams developing new video, social, event, and franchises, ensuring that new initiatives launch with a distinctive and consistent visual identity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant creative leadership experience in design, publishing, media, agency, or a similarly fast-paced brand environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional design, brand identity, art direction, typography, and visual storytelling across online and offline channels.
• Experience leading creative work for a recognized media, consumer, cultural, or premium brand with a high bar for craft and consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to develop visual identities and flexible design systems that translate across platforms, including marketing, print, web, social, video, and events.
• Experience managing and mentoring designers, as well as directing freelance creatives, illustrators, photographers, and other external partners.
• Proven project-management experience, including commissioning creative work, negotiating rates and usage, and prioritizing resources.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and project-management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution, manage multiple high-visibility projects, and make thoughtful decisions under deadline.
• Deep fluency in industry-standard design tools and production workflows, including Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with evolving digital brand-management tools is a plus.
• A commitment to inclusive, thoughtful creative work and a curiosity about business, leadership, innovation, and the forces shaping the global economy.

Compensation

Compensation: $145,000-$160,000 total compensation

Location

Location: NYC; hybrid flexibility

A Few Of Fortune’s Perks And Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 2 personal days on top of 11 company holidays and an honor-based sick leave policy
• Health, dental, and vision coverage (90% paid for individuals and families), along with flexible spending accounts where Fortune contributes to your HSA 401(k) plan
• Generous parental leave
• Dependent care, commuter, and cell phone benefits
• Tuition reimbursement programA commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

About Fortune

At Fortune Media, our mission is to change the world by making business better.

We achieve that by providing trusted information, great storytelling, rigorous benchmarking and world-class community building.

And our key values are humility, ownership, and transparency.

The policy of Fortune Media is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, caste, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Fortune Media affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity and values diversity and inclusion.

Fortune Media is a global media organization dedicated to helping its readers, viewers, and attendees succeed in business through unrivaled access and best-in-class storytelling.

Fortune’s mission is to drive the conversation about business.

With a global perspective, the guiding wisdom of history, and an unflinching eye to the future, we report and reveal the stories that matter today—and that will matter even more tomorrow.

With the trusted power to convene and challenge those who are shaping industry, commerce and society around the world, Fortune lights the path for global leaders—and gives them the tools to make business better.

Our values inform our mission.

We believe that business can be a powerful platform for good, and we are committed to holding it to that standard.