Global Creative Director — Brand & Experiences

Museum of Ice Cream; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual bonus

Stock options

401k with match

PTO and sick time

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Museum of Ice Cream in New York City and Los Angeles is seeking a Creative Director to lead the brand evolution across physical and digital experiences. You will guide the Creative and Social teams, set the visual identity and system, and align campaigns, partnerships and museum openings with business goals.

The role demands a proven people manager with agency leadership, exceptional taste and the ability to translate strategy into distinctive campaigns.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive design leadership in creative/advertising environments.
• Portfolio showing integrated campaigns, visual identity and brand systems.
• Experience leading meaningful consumer-brand evolution and market delivery.
• Ability translate central ideas across physical and digital channels from awareness to conversion.
• Cultural fluency with ability to spot meaningful opportunities over trends.
• Experience managing Creative and Social teams, agencies, freelancers and production partners.
• Strong conceptual and editorial instincts; writing not required but helpful.
• Excellent taste and craft in art direction, design, typography, photography and storytelling.
• Balance long-term brand-building with urgent business priorities.
• Clear, persuasive communication and decisive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead MOIC’s brand evolution and visual identity system.
• Turn strategy into briefs, ideas and distinctive creative platforms.
• Direct integrated campaigns across advertising, social, content, PR, partnerships and experiences.
• Identify opportunities for original, culturally relevant work rather than following trends.
• Collaborate with Experience Creative to align brand system with guest experiences.
• Manage and develop Creative and Social teams, coaching and career growth.
• Oversee partnerships, activations and museum openings from concept to delivery.
• Set vision for photography, film, design and experiential work with internal/external teams.
• Build a broad creative ecosystem across employees, agencies and partners.
• Create efficient briefing, review and approval processes to accelerate decisions.

Skills

Creative leadership

Art direction

Agency experience

Brand development

Team management

Visual identity

Copywriting

Job description

Museum of Ice Cream in New York City and Los Angeles is seeking a Creative Director to lead the brand evolution across physical and digital experiences. You will guide the Creative and Social teams, set the visual identity and system, and align campaigns, partnerships and museum openings with business goals.

The role demands a proven people manager with agency leadership, exceptional taste and the ability to translate strategy into distinctive campaigns.