Creative Director

Vanta; United States; On-site; USD 224,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in company

Medical, dental, vision

Remote work stipend

Parental leave 16 weeks

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Creative Director to lead its nine-person creative team and own the final visual and verbal expression of the brand across campaigns, web, events, and product launches. You will partner with Brand Strategy and Voice to set a high creative bar and ensure cohesive systems across channels.

You will drive focused creative sprints for major campaigns, balance ambitious ideas with delivery constraints, and shape the long-term structure and talent plan for the organization, while

Qualifications

• Proven design leadership across a team of designers.
• A strong portfolio showing both personal work and leadership of others.
• In-house experience in SaaS/technology preferred.
• Ability to translate product narratives into cohesive brand experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the completion and global application of brand refresh across campaigns and channels.
• Set a high creative bar for visual systems and how copy and design come together.
• Coach a nine-person team spanning campaigns, web, production, motion, and design.
• Build a reliable creative operating model with intake, briefing, prioritization, and quality reviews.
• Collaborate with Brand Strategy and cross-functional partners to turn narratives into compelling work.
• Shape long-term structure and talent plans for the creative organization.

Skills

Design leadership

Portfolio

SaaS experience

Team mentorship

Brand & product integration

Creative systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Agency experience

Job description

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.
Lead Vanta’s creative team through the our brand refresh and shape how the refreshed brand comes to life across global campaigns, web, advertising, events, video, product launches, and everything in between.
The Brand team sets the vision, strategy, voice, and creative expression that make Vanta distinctive and trusted. We connect a complex product and a rapidly changing market to clear, memorable experiences across every surface where customers encounter Vanta.
As Creative Director, you’ll lead a nine-person creative team and own the final creative expression of the Vanta brand. You’ll partner closely with the Director of Brand Strategy and Voice, who owns brand strategy and copy, while you set the bar for how visual and verbal expression come together in systems and applications.

What you’ll do as a Creative Director at Vanta:

• Lead the completion and global application of Vanta’s brand refresh across campaigns, web, advertising, events, decks, video, product launches, and other brand surfaces.
• Set and maintain a high creative bar across visual systems and applications, making the final call on how copy and design come together in the team’s recommendations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a nine-person creative team spanning campaigns, web, production, motion, and brand design.
• Build a reliable creative operating model, including intake, briefing, prioritization, capacity planning, project communication, and quality review.
• Partner with Brand Strategy and Voice, Comms, Growth, Product Marketing, Web, Events, Product Design, and other stakeholders to turn complex narratives into compelling creative work.
• Guide the team through focused creative sprints for major campaigns and brand moments, balancing ambitious ideas with practical delivery constraints.
• Bring broad cultural and creative perspective to Vanta’s work and help the team explore new creative territory.
• Use agency and external partners selectively to extend the team’s capabilities while maintaining a clear in-house point of view.
• Shape the long-term structure, capabilities, and talent plan for the creative organization.

How To Be Successful In This Role

• You have a strong design-led background and a portfolio that demonstrates both excellent personal creative work and an even stronger record of work led through other designers and creative teams.
• You have meaningful in-house experience, ideally within a SaaS or technology company serving a B2B audience.
• You have experience creating thoughtful integration between product and brand experiences.
• You can translate complex products and narratives into compelling, consumer-grade creative.
• You have led and developed senior creative talent through mentorship, actionable feedback, and clear standards without micromanaging.
• You have built creative systems and processes from scratch, then improved them over time.
• You bring strong operational judgment across intake, prioritization, capacity planning, timelines, stakeholder communication, and delivery.
• You build trust quickly with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly when priorities or timelines change.
• You are highly collaborative, low ego, and able to improvise under constrained timelines or changing priorities.
• You have agency experience or another source of broad creative perspective that helps you rapidly immerse yourself in new problems and raise the ambition of the work.
• You are comfortable working primarily within U.S. time zones and traveling several times per year for events and team off-sites.
• Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how your team operates and delivers results.
• Responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how your team operates and delivers results.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

What You Can Expect As a Vanta’n

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

Compensation Range: $224K - $263K