Creative Director: Ownership, Growth Path, Impact

Energy Systems Corp; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness budget

Retirement match

Clear milestones for advancement

Job summary

Energy Systems Corp in Hayward, CA seeks a Creative Director to turn briefs into beautiful, high-impact work and lead a growing studio. You will own channel strategy, guide a team of 11, and ensure brand consistency across multiple projects from concept to launch.

You will drive innovative formats, manage deadlines, and elevate the team with practical, testable processes that scale as the company grows. This full-time role offers real ownership and a clear path to the next director, plus a

Qualifications

• Experience at the director level in a full-time role.
• Fluency in decision making and heatmap analysis with informed opinions.

Responsibilities

• Adapt master concepts into channel-specific formats and aspect ratios.
• Present design rationale clearly to director stakeholders and clients.
• Localize creative for the Hayward, CA market while preserving brand consistency.
• Grow a scrappy Team Leadership toolkit into a documented system the next hire inherits.
• Manage multiple creative projects simultaneously without missing deadlines.
• Drive candidly-kind content series from ideation to publication and promotion.
• Curate the reference wall that keeps a 11-person studio pointed the same way.
• Time the reveal in a launch film so the logo lands earned, not slapped on.

Skills

Attention to detail

Director-level experience

Decision making

Heatmap analysis

Job description

Energy Systems Corp in Hayward, CA seeks a Creative Director to turn briefs into beautiful, high-impact work and lead a growing studio. You will own channel strategy, guide a team of 11, and ensure brand consistency across multiple projects from concept to launch.

You will drive innovative formats, manage deadlines, and elevate the team with practical, testable processes that scale as the company grows. This full-time role offers real ownership and a clear path to the next director, plus a