Creative Director

Ondo Finance; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm in the blockchain space seeks a Creative Director to shape its brand and design strategy. This role involves leading a team, executing designs across various channels, and ensuring consistency in brand messaging. With a focus on high-quality output, the Creative Director will drive awareness and engagement through creative campaigns. As a key player in a remote-first environment, you will collaborate with talented professionals from top-tier companies and have the opportunity to influence the creative direction of the organization. If you are passionate about design and eager to make an impact, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Equity Options

Medical, Vision, and Dental Benefits

Flexible Vacation Policy

Remote Work Environment

Collaborative Team Culture

Qualifications

• 7+ years leading design teams in finance or blockchain.
• Strong digital portfolio showcasing creative work.
• Expertise in branding and web3 design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction and design strategy for the brand.
• Manage cross-functional relationships to meet design needs.
• Ensure high-quality creative output aligned with brand identity.

Skills

Creative Direction

Brand Strategy

Graphic Design

Web Design

Digital Marketing

Project Management

Photography

Video Direction

Typography

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or Related Field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Sketch

Job description

About the Company

Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.

Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue to grow the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.

About the Role

Ondo is looking for an experienced Creative Director. You will hands-on execute and drive the creative direction for Ondo’s brand and assets, including the development of Ondo’s brand architecture, design system, brand strategy, and execution, including visual elements and content. The Creative Director will play a key role in bringing the strategic vision of Ondo Finance to life and communicating its value proposition to the world. You are able to direct design strategy as well as roll up your sleeves to independently execute designs through channels like social media, graphic design, and more. This is a unique opportunity to shape the design function at Ondo Finance and lead the team of designers that bring Ondo’s vision to life.

What You’ll Achieve:

•Execute and Lead: You will both create and provide art direction to build awareness and grow our presence across audience touch points, products, and local markets

•Drive a design system that aligns with our brand and ensure consistency across Ondo’s products and marketing channels

•Develop the creative strategy, visual language, voice, and personality of creative, with a focus on awareness and integrated campaign work

•Build relationships with cross functional team members and executives to effectively manage process, deliverables and design needs

•Deliver outstanding art direction, web designs, photography and video direction, design, typography and campaign systems and support creation of assets for sales enablement, presentations, and digital storytelling needs

•Create organization and project management processes that scale; processes should work well cross-functionally to other teams to meet their creative needs

•Identify gaps in our capabilities - when we need to build and when we need to source specialists and agencies, if needed

•Ensure the quality of creative output is world-class

What we're looking for:

•At least 7+ years of professional experience leading design teams at an agency or an in-house design team

•A compelling digital portfolio, preferably gaining from traditional finance and blockchain companies

•Expertise: Experience designing in blockchain, web3, DeFi, financial services categories

•Willingness to be hands-on. This individual will be required to create and execute, as well as lead.

•Extensive technical knowledge of branding systems is a plus

•Understands high-quality output and is deeply obsessed with all work being in-line with brand systems and visual identities

•Resourceful to get things done quickly and efficiently

•Extensive experience onboarding the right agency partners for the right objectives

•Ability to lead by influence; inspired teams to deliver their best work

•Partial (5hr) daily overlap with EST — typically this means you're located in the Americas unless you're willing to work unusual hours

What We Offer

•Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — we're well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation

•Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO)

•Small remote-first team across many countries — you'll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices

•A+ colleagues — our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap

•Best-in-class investors — we are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures