Creative Director

HP; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexibility policy

Job summary

HP is seeking a Creative Director in Santa Ana, CA to translate abstract ideas into compelling visual assets. You will own the emotional arc of launch videos, collaborating with marketing, product, and editorial teams to ensure every frame aligns with the HP vision.

You’ll guide design decisions, balance creative ownership with mentorship, and apply After Effects skills to elevate assets. HP emphasizes flexibility, mentorship, and rigorous quality control.

Qualifications

• Must show scrappy, scalable thinking for growing the business.
• Experience working with an entrepreneurial contract team and non-traditional structures.
• Able to be measured against a director-level standard with verifiable results.

Responsibilities

• Map the emotional arc of a launch video beat by beat before filming.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and editorial teams based in Santa Ana.
• Frame the design rationale so director approvers feel confident with the decision.
• Stay current with Public Speaking and Atomic Design to expand the toolkit.
• Transform a stock photo into a shot-like HP creative asset.
• Salvage usable frames from shoots affected by Santa Ana weather.
• Engineer specs tightly so builds match mocks.

Skills

Scrappy

Entrepreneurial contract

Director bar

Attention to detail

Curiosity

Discretion

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Job description

You translate the unsayable into something people can see, and HP needs that exact gift in its incoming Creative Director. The reward structure favors doers: $170,000 - $243,000 upfront, real creative ownership, and a HP team pulling the same direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Map the emotional arc of a launch video, beat by beat, before a frame is shot
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and editorial teams based in Santa Ana
• Frame the design rationale so director approvers feel smart agreeing with you
• Keep current with Public Speaking and Atomic Design to expand the creative toolkit
• Knead a clumsy stock photo into something that feels shot for HP
• Salvage usable frames from a shoot the weather in Santa Ana half-ruined
• Hand engineering specs tight enough that the build matches the mock

What You'll Bring

• A HP mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• Familiarity with the rhythms of an entrepreneurial contract team
• Comfort being measured against a clear director bar
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• Professionalism, integrity, and discretion with sensitive information

HP took everything frustrating about creative and rebuilt it from scratch in Santa Ana, CA, with make-it-better attention to Adobe After Effects. Mentorship goes both ways at HP, and seniority never means having all the answers.

We trade fair $170,000 - $243,000 for your talent and throw in mentorship, benefits, and a flexibility policy people actually use.

This req is fresh on our board and getting attention from the hiring team today.