Executive Creative Director

Craft; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Uncapped new-business incentive

Year-end bonus

Job summary

Craft, a New York design and strategy studio, seeks an Executive Creative Director to lead the design practice. You will set the creative standard across identity, positioning, tone of voice, packaging, and websites while directing reviews, kickoffs and client presentations.

You’ll contribute hands-on and manage a team of three designers with freelance support. You’ll join a studio with a strong roster across venture, AI, defence-tech, culture brands and more, and you’ll help build the business

Qualifications

• 15+ years design leadership experience.
• Deep in brand identity and strategy.
• Experience with B2B tech and culture brands.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design practice as Executive Creative Director.
• Set the creative standard across identity, positioning, tone of voice, packaging, and websites.
• Direct reviews, kickoffs, client presentations, and contribute hands-on where needed.
• Manage a team of three designers plus a freelance bench.

Skills

Brand identity

Strategy

Leadership

New business

Job description

For a decade, this New York design and strategy studio has built a roster spanning venture capital, private equity, AI and defence-tech alongside consumer, fashion and culture brands - quietly, without marketing itself, at unusually strong margins.

The Role

Leading the design practice as Executive Creative Director, you’ll sit as the fourth member of the executive team and play an active part in new business. setting the creative standard across all design output from identity, positioning and tone of voice through to packaging and websites. Directing reviews, kickoffs and client presentations, and contributing hands‑on where it counts, as well as managing a team of three designers, plus a freelance bench.

The Founder is explicit that nothing about how the studio designs, pitches or operates is precious. This is a genuine blank canvas - the chance to build a design business with your fingerprints on it, backed by established infrastructure and no personal financial risk.

The Package

$300,000 - $350,000

Hybrid working: 3 days in the office

Uncapped new-business incentive

Year-end bonus

The Person

You're a design leader with 15+ years behind you, likely a Creative or Design Director at a respected independent or network studio. You're deep in brand identity and strategy, and equally at home in technical B2B categories and culture brands.

You carry your own book of business or a freelance practice you can bring in-house. You may have considered building your own studio - this is the version of that without the risk.

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