Creative Director

3Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

3Search in New York is seeking a Creative Director to establish the brand from the ground up, shaping visual identity and global perception.

You will own the brand system, guide campaigns, and build a freelance network, collaborating with US leadership and Paris-based design. This is a high-impact role at an AI-focused company in Soho, offering equity and a path to redefine how the world sees this brand.

Qualifications

• Proven creative leadership at a high-craft tech company.
• Hands-on ability to art-direct video and brief freelancers within a week.
• AI fluency and integration of AI in creative workflows.
• Experience building or managing a creative function or freelancer network.
• Enterprise branding experience with ability to balance disruption and credibility.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the company's visual identity from scratch.
• Lead creative direction across website, launches, campaigns, events, social, and video.
• Build a self-serve brand system and template library for on-brand assets with AI in workflow.
• Own and grow a network of freelancers and agencies for motion, video, photography, and production.
• Partner with Paris product design and US leadership to align brand and product visually.

Skills

Creative leadership

Hands-on video direction

AI in workflow

Brand system management

Enterprise branding experience

Job description

Creative Director — $200,000–$250,000 + Equity | New York | Permanent

Most AI companies look identical right now. Our client wants to fix that.

We're retained by one of the most exciting AI companies in the market — Sequoia-backed, Series B, 3,000+ enterprise customers, 80%+ weekly active users — and at the point where brand starts to matter as much as product. The technology is exceptional. Now they need someone exceptional to define how it looks to the world.

This is the first dedicated creative leadership hire in the US. They have a logo. Everything else — visual identity, brand system, website, campaigns, video, motion, the self-serve design infrastructure that lets a small team produce world-class work at scale — is yours to build.

Role Highlights

• Define and own the company's visual identity — not a rebrand, a proper build from scratch
• Lead creative direction across the website (first major deliverable), launches, campaigns, events, social, and video
• Build a self-serve brand system and template library so the wider team can produce on-brand assets at speed, with AI embedded in the workflow
• Own and grow a network of freelancers and agencies across motion, video, photography, and production
• Partner closely with the Paris-based product design team and US leadership to keep brand and product visually aligned

You Will Need

• Demonstrated creative leadership at a high-craft technology company — agency background considered if you've owned the work end-to-end
• Hands-on: able to art-direct a video, push pixels on a landing page, and brief a freelancer in the same week
• AI-fluent — already using AI as a core part of your creative and production workflow, not as a threat to craft
• Experience building or managing a creative function, brand system, or freelancer network
• Enterprise buyer intuition — you know what enterprise-credible brand looks and feels like, and can balance disruption with credibility

Why You'll Love It

• Blank canvas creative mandate — full ownership of how one of AI's most interesting companies shows up to the world
• Real traction: 3,000+ enterprise customers, 80%+ weekly active users, Sequoia-backed
• Meaningful equity at a well-funded stage with genuine upside
• Small, low-ego, high-taste team that takes the work seriously without taking themselves too seriously
• New York, Soho — in-office with a team that genuinely wants to be there

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and strive to maintain an environment free from discrimination where all decisions are based on merit.

Due to the volume of applications, we are only able to respond to successful candidates.