Creative Director: Brand Platform Architect (Remote)

Block; New York (NY); On-site; USD 252,000 - 377,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Family planning

Job summary

Block’s in-house creative team is hiring a creative director to originate big ideas and carry them through market launch for Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. This role is an individual contributor leading project teams and setting the creative standard.

You will originate brand platforms, reposition brands coherently, and guide the work from concept through activation, collaborating with marketing, product, and partnerships to deliver campaigns across channels.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of work led as creative director: brand platforms, repositionings, campaigns, activations.
• Art direction background with strong visual judgment to lead ideas across mediums.
• Proven track record setting creative vision and maintaining quality while hands-on.
• Credibility with cross-functional leadership as a peer.
• History of identifying cultural shifts and translating them into work.
• Experience carrying brand thinking across multiple products or business lines.
• Experience working in agencies, in-house, or both.

Responsibilities

• Originate brand platforms and campaign-level ideas, and own them from concept through activation.
• Reposition brands while keeping the platform coherent across brand and product surfaces.
• Hold the idea intact from first cut to final placement.
• Shape the brief with an embedded creative-strategy team.
• Direct designers, writers, and production partners on the work.
• Work with marketing, product, and partnerships leadership to get campaigns made.

Skills

Brand platforms

Campaign concepts

Art direction

Cross-functional leadership

Brand strategy

Agency experience

In-house experience

Job description

Block’s in-house creative team is hiring a creative director to originate big ideas and carry them through market launch for Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. This role is an individual contributor leading project teams and setting the creative standard.

You will originate brand platforms, reposition brands coherently, and guide the work from concept through activation, collaborating with marketing, product, and partnerships to deliver campaigns across channels.