Creative Director Architecture: Brand & Storytelling

Archinect; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

PTO 20 days + 9 holidays

401K matching 4%

Tech stipend $200

Job summary

Pfeffer Torode Architecture in Birmingham, AL seeks a Creative Director to lead how the firm’s work is seen, narrated, and remembered across brand, imagery, publications, and presentations.

This role is hands-on and strategic, developing concepts, guiding design teams, and producing high-craft layouts in InDesign and Photoshop. Travel to Nashville is expected as projects demand, with reporting to Principals and collaboration with the Creative Lead.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in architecture, interiors, graphic/brand design, creative direction, or a related design discipline.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional layout, typographic, and image craft; visual storytelling with a clear point of view.
• Experience directing photography and overseeing publications, awards submissions, and editorial materials.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to articulate design decisions and client-facing narratives.
• Ability to manage budgets, timelines, and cross-functional teams across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Hold and extend PTA’s visual and verbal identity so every touchpoint reads as one firm with one point of view.
• Translate the creative direction into concepts, narratives, and finished pieces; bring ideas forward.
• Challenge and refine direction while defending the reasoning behind creative decisions.
• Establish and maintain firmwide presentation standards; templates, typography, image treatment, and craft.
• Personally produce high-craft layouts, presentations, and visual storytelling in InDesign, Photoshop, and related tools.
• Review and approve external presentations, messaging, imagery, and collateral before release.
• Oversee the photography program end to end; art direction on site and final selects with principals.
• Shape editorial relationships, pitch projects for publication, and manage awards submissions.
• Lead and develop team members, budgets, and timelines; travel between Birmingham and Nashville studios.

Skills

Creative Direction

Brand Development

Visual Storytelling

Layout Craft

Typography

Leadership

Publications

Art Direction

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Photoshop

Acrobat

Figma

Squarespace or WordPress

Job description

Pfeffer Torode Architecture in Birmingham, AL seeks a Creative Director to lead how the firm’s work is seen, narrated, and remembered across brand, imagery, publications, and presentations.

This role is hands-on and strategic, developing concepts, guiding design teams, and producing high-craft layouts in InDesign and Photoshop. Travel to Nashville is expected as projects demand, with reporting to Principals and collaboration with the Creative Lead.