Creative Director, Crypto Brand & Experience

Bullish; New York (NY); On-site; USD 228,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Bullish seeks a Creative Director to lead the next chapter of brand expression across crypto-finance and media. This hands‑on, high‑impact role blends creative vision with disciplined craft across brands, audiences, products and technology.

Based in NYC, the role is onsite at the office at least four days per week, and offers a strong base salary with bonus opportunities and performance incentives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading brand and digital creative at a strong studio, agency or in‑house team.
• Proven ability to build and evolve brand systems that scale across audiences, products, and touchpoints.
• Editorial taste and a producer mindset. Strong judgment around typography, pacing, imagery, sequence, and curation.
• Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with strong digital design fluency and the production discipline you would want the team to adopt.
• Outstanding presentation, visual communication, and storytelling skills.
• A clear point of view on craft and where design is going, and a collaborative approach that prioritizes the end viewer/user experience.
• Strong intuition for motion language, timing, and animation principles, and the ability to direct motion through storyboards or assets.
• Ability to direct and elevate other designers, giving smart critique and steering teams toward strong solutions.
• Comfort operating across a global, cross‑functional organization (US, Cayman, London, Hong Kong).

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative expression for our brands across marketing, events, business, editorial, web, and media surfaces.
• Steward and evolve the brand systems as they mature, deepening visual language, motion, and imagery across touchpoints.
• Develop opportunities for brand motion by establishing how brand moments move and show up across digital, social, product, and events.
• Direct and contribute to creative output at the project and program level guiding designers and partners through roadmapping, briefing, ideation, critique, and delivery.
• Champion a modern, exploratory creative practice, experimenting with AI workflows and emergent tools and translating into useful applications.
• Keep brand systems moving by developing assets, templates, and guides for teams to execute at high level.
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Media, Product, Events, Business, and executive leadership to solve problems with aesthetic ambition.
• Deliver hands-on, 360° creative across digital and product marketing, campaigns, collateral, events, research reports, social, and product launches.
• Support group-level creative needs including office branding, internal communications, swag and other services.
• Inspire and elevate the team, modeling refinement, curiosity, prioritization, and accountable execution.

Skills

Brand leadership

Brand systems

Stakeholder management

Motion direction

Typography

Editorial taste

Presentations

Collaboration

Design critique

Team mentorship

Global teams

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

After Effects

Job description

Bullish seeks a Creative Director to lead the next chapter of brand expression across crypto-finance and media. This hands‑on, high‑impact role blends creative vision with disciplined craft across brands, audiences, products and technology.

Based in NYC, the role is onsite at the office at least four days per week, and offers a strong base salary with bonus opportunities and performance incentives.