Creative Director, Global Brand

Skill; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health, vision, and dental

Paid sick leave

Retirement plan with a match

Free online training through AquentGym

Job summary

Aquent Studios is seeking a Creative Director, Brand to lead a high-caliber team embedded with our client. You will steward design systems, visual identity, typography, and photography direction to ensure cohesion across a multi-brand portfolio.

You will mentor designers, guide brand integrity, and align creative output with business and product goals while presenting directions to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in brand and creative leadership with team management experience.
• Expert in design systems across multiple brand touchpoints.
• Strong visual identity skills: typography, grids, color theory.
• Experience directing photography for in-house or agency partners.
• Robust portfolio showing brand systems thinking.
• Proven ability to mentor a small design team.
• Experience with interconnected brand architectures is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of brand and visual designers, setting direction and reviewing work.
• Own and evolve comprehensive design systems across brand and sub-brands.
• Guard visual identity, typography, color, and layout systems.
• Direct photography and visual development from briefs to final assets.
• Collaborate with marketing and brand stakeholders to support goals.
• Present design direction and defend decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure brand consistency across a portfolio of related brands.

Skills

Brand leadership

Design systems

Typography

Photography direction

Portfolio

Mentoring

Tools

Design software libraries

Brand portals

Job description

Aquent Studios is partnering with a global leader in technology, delivering world-class creative services to shape how one of the world’s most innovative brands shows up in culture and in the market. As a Creative Director, Global Brand, you will be instrumental in building breakthrough campaigns and bringing cutting-edge technology stories to life for audiences around the world. This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a significant impact on the visual identity and brand consistency across a complex, multi-brand architecture, guiding a talented team to new creative heights.

About the Role

Aquent Studios is seeking a Creative Director, Brand to lead a small, high-caliber creative team embedded with our client. This pivotal role owns the visual health and consistency of the foundational corporate brand alongside its dynamic portfolio of product brands. You will serve as the steward of design systems, visual identity, typography, and photography direction, ensuring cohesion and impact across all touchpoints, while also mentoring and managing a dedicated team of designers.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage a small team of brand and visual designers, setting clear direction and reviewing work to uphold a consistently high creative bar.
• Own and evolve comprehensive design systems that scale across the foundational brand and its diverse sub-brands.
• Serve as the guardian of visual identity, typography, color, iconography, layout systems, and key visual language, ensuring brand integrity.
• Direct photography and key visual development, overseeing the process from initial creative briefs through to final asset selection.
• Partner closely with marketing, product marketing, and brand stakeholders to ensure all creative work strategically supports business and product goals.
• Present compelling creative direction, systems, and rationale to senior stakeholders, confidently defending design decisions with clear and concise reasoning.
• Ensure brand consistency and appropriate differentiation across a complex portfolio of related brands.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of extensive brand and creative experience, including proven experience leading or managing a creative team.
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in design systems, including building, documenting, and scaling them across multiple brand touchpoints.
• Strong command of visual identity fundamentals, including typography, grid systems, color theory, and key visual development.
• Experience directing photography, whether through in-house shoots or collaboration with agency/vendor partners.
• A robust portfolio that clearly showcases brand systems thinking, not just individual campaign executions.
• Proven ability to effectively manage, mentor, and foster the growth of a small design team.
• Comfort and proficiency operating across a portfolio of related brands with distinct but interconnected identities.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with technology, semiconductor, or consumer electronics brands.
• Background working within or alongside enterprise/B2B brand architectures.
• Experience building or maintaining brand guideline systems (e.g., using design software libraries, brand portals).

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

• subsidized health, vision, and dental plans
• paid sick leave
• retirement plans with a match
• free online training through Aquent Gymnasium

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