Creative Director: Brand, Marketing & Growth (Remote)

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chess.com is a global, 100% remote company seeking a world-class designer to lead brand, marketing, and creative direction. You will shape the visual language across campaigns, product launches, and brand moments, partnering with Product, Marketing, and Partnerships to drive growth and retention.

You'll guide teams, craft memorable campaigns, and push boundaries while staying rooted in Chess.com’s playful, authentic brand voice. Strong remote work capabilities are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or creative leadership.
• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding campaign work, exceptional design craft, and creative thinking that drove measurable business results.
• Proven success defining and executing compelling creative vision with a strong design eye and instinct for modern visual culture.
• Deep understanding of advertising, brand design, performance marketing, and multi-channel campaign development.
• Experience bridging product and marketing.
• Experience building and scaling creative teams in high-growth environments.
• Led brand storytelling and multi-channel campaigns seen by millions.
• Strong art direction skills across illustration, motion, photography, and emerging creative technologies.
• Collaborative and confident communicator who inspires great work across disciplines.
• Comfort working in a remote environment.
• Versatile and willing to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Portfolio demonstrates needs of the role.
• Bonus: knowledge of gaming space, creator economy, global fandoms.
• Huge bonus: familiarity with chess culture.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Chess.com brand identity across touchpoints—from campaign visuals to social presence to product launches
• Design and art direct major brand campaigns from concept through final execution
• Lead the visual direction for product launches, performance marketing, social campaigns, sponsorships, and special events
• Personally design the highest-impact creative work while mentoring and elevating the work of others
• Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Content, and Community to ensure cohesive storytelling across channels
• Translate strategy, consumer insights, and marketing goals into compelling creative concepts and world-class visual design
• Advance brand guidelines and design systems that support creative quality at scale
• Guide creative resourcing and asset pipelines to ensure quality across the board
• Push boundaries and help us take bold creative risks—while keeping the brand grounded in tradition, authenticity, and fun
• Build creative that strengthens both long-term brand equity and measurable business growth

Skills

Brand leadership

Campaign design

Typography

Layout

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Creative direction

Remote collaboration

Gaming knowledge

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Motion design tools

Job description

Chess.com is a global, 100% remote company seeking a world-class designer to lead brand, marketing, and creative direction. You will shape the visual language across campaigns, product launches, and brand moments, partnering with Product, Marketing, and Partnerships to drive growth and retention.

You'll guide teams, craft memorable campaigns, and push boundaries while staying rooted in Chess.com’s playful, authentic brand voice. Strong remote work capabilities are essential.