Creative Director, Brand Systems & Storytelling

Energy Innovation Corp; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship that lasts

Flexibility to live in Lowell, MA

Job summary

Honda is seeking a Creative Director in Lowell, MA, offering a substantial salary range and significant ownership over creative direction. The role emphasizes storytelling, pixel polish on tight deadlines, and maintaining organized design systems across rebrands.

The ideal candidate brings atomic design mastery, user journey mapping insight, and 10+ years of estimating experience, with a comfortable pace in a dynamic, fast-moving team.

Qualifications

• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings.
• Hands-on familiarity with Style Guides, sharpened by User Research side projects.
• Equal parts Atomic Design depth and User Journey Mapping curiosity.
• At least 10 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your creative craft.
• Comfort with a Honda pace that rarely sits still.

Responsibilities

• Cut a sixty-second story to fifteen without amputating the point.
• Trade pixel polish for speed when a part-time deadline says you must.
• Maintain organized source files, asset libraries, and version histories.
• Engineer a template system flexible enough to survive Honda's rebrand.
• Carry layouts from napkin scribble to press-ready file without losing the spark.
• Borrow structure from film editing to fix a Time Management sequence that drags.
• Frame the design rationale so director approvers feel smart agreeing with you.
• Resurface old Honda archives for motifs worth a second, sharper life.

Skills

Confident communicator

Atomic Design

User Journey Mapping

Estimating experience

Curiosity and craft

Honda pace adaptability

Tools

Style Guides

Job description

Honda is seeking a Creative Director in Lowell, MA, offering a substantial salary range and significant ownership over creative direction. The role emphasizes storytelling, pixel polish on tight deadlines, and maintaining organized design systems across rebrands.

The ideal candidate brings atomic design mastery, user journey mapping insight, and 10+ years of estimating experience, with a comfortable pace in a dynamic, fast-moving team.