Lead Creative Director, Brand & E‑Commerce

Clearly Filtered, Inc.; Rancho Santa Margarita (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work hours

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays, floating holidays, PTO

Be part of a growing brand focused on…

Job summary

Clearly Filtered, Inc. is seeking an Associate Creative Director in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. This hands-on senior design role leads creative across web, social, email, and paid media while mentoring a small team and maintaining a high bar for excellence.

You’ll own brand system evolution, translate marketing priorities into compelling concepts, and ensure output across touchpoints. The role requires 3+ days in the office weekly and a deep mix of creative craft and strategic thinking.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates craft and range across digital channels.
• Deep DTC and e-commerce digital marketing experience; you’ve designed for conversion and know what performs on web, social, paid, and email.
• Proven experience creating and editing social media videos as well as graphics; fluent in Premiere Pro, After Effects, or CapCut alongside expert-level Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience designing content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest with a strong understanding of what makes creative perform on each.
• Ability to receive a strategy and independently translate it into channel-right creative, not one asset resized four ways.
• Experience building, evolving, or enforcing a brand system across a growing creative output.
• A clear point of view: you can articulate why a piece of creative works, defend it, and change your mind when the data says to.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand and creative leadership, defining and evolving the brand’s visual identity and guidelines across channels.
• Translate marketing priorities into compelling concepts and personally execute them.
• Build scalable design systems and creative frameworks for cross-channel deployment.
• Lead the creative development of campaigns from concept to production, creating video, social, and campaign assets.

Skills

Creative leadership

Team management

Video editing

Social video creation

Premiere Pro

After Effects

CapCut

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Brand system

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

CapCut

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Clearly Filtered, Inc. is seeking an Associate Creative Director in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. This hands-on senior design role leads creative across web, social, email, and paid media while mentoring a small team and maintaining a high bar for excellence.

You’ll own brand system evolution, translate marketing priorities into compelling concepts, and ensure output across touchpoints. The role requires 3+ days in the office weekly and a deep mix of creative craft and strategic thinking.