Creative Director

Community Excellence Foundation; Waco (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Career growth

Job summary

Community Excellence Foundation in Waco, TX seeks a Creative Director to translate rough briefs into polished Card Sorting deliverables and guide the team from concept to handoff. Compensation lands between $105,000 and $162,000 with mentorship built in and a clear path to senior creative leadership.

In this role you will lead the full creative process, shape brand identity, and ensure the build matches the mock across channels, while staying calm under pressure in a fast-paced, collaborative

Qualifications

• Director-caliber judgment about when to escalate and when to absorb.
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint.
• 12+ years of Card Sorting reps, not just Card Sorting exposure.
• A TX sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market.
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation.
• 10+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts.
• Calm under the quietly-relentless chaos a director role tends to generate.

Responsibilities

• Turn rough briefs into polished Card Sorting deliverables the creative team can ship
• Bring concepts to life through motion, illustration, or interactive media
• Curate and art-direct a consistent visual feed across owned channels
• Own the full creative process from initial brief to final handoff
• Read the room mid-presentation and reorder the deck on the fly
• Support director designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Hand engineering specs tight enough that the build matches the mock

Skills

Card Sorting

Creative Direction

Leadership

Grit

TX Market Familiarity

Documentation Clarity

Political Savvy

Calm Under Pressure

Job description

The empty page doesn't scare you; it's the most honest collaborator you've got, and Community Excellence Foundation wants that fearlessness in a Creative Director. Frame it as Community Excellence Foundation trusting your 11 years with $105,000 - $162,000, a creative mandate, and the room to grow into leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Turn rough briefs into polished Card Sorting deliverables the creative team can ship
• Bring concepts to life through motion, illustration, or interactive media
• Curate and art-direct a consistent visual feed across owned channels
• Own the full creative process from initial brief to final handoff
• Read the room mid-presentation and reorder the deck on the fly
• Support director designers through critique, mentorship, and shared best practices
• Hand engineering specs tight enough that the build matches the mock

What You'll Bring

• Director-caliber judgment about when to **escalate** and when to absorb
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• 12+ years of Card Sorting reps, not just Card Sorting exposure
• A TX sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• 10+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts
• Calm under the quietly-relentless chaos a director role tends to generate

Everything Community Excellence Foundation ships starts as a bias-to-action argument in a Waco conference room about how Brand Identity should really work. We build psychological safety the boring way: by actually following through on what we say.

Compensation lands at $105,000 - $162,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior creative work is mapped, not vague.

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