Principal Creative

Engine; United States; Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity options

Bonuses

Job summary

Engine is seeking a Principal Creative to join our Brand team. This role goes beyond directing campaigns and focuses on activating the Engine brand across high-impact moments and building creative platforms.

You’ll lead integrated brand campaigns, digital experiences, growth campaigns, social content, and more, defining big ideas and driving delivery with creative rigor and strategic clarity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in creative direction or integrated marketing, with a portfolio showing strong conceptual thinking across brand campaigns, digital experiences, and growth creative.
• Proven track record of developing brand and campaign platforms from brief through launch with high creative standards.
• Strong project leadership, organized, decisive, and able to push complex creative initiatives forward.
• Deep collaboration with strategists, designers, copywriters, and producers to achieve top work.
• Comfortable leading large-scale campaigns and crafted, focused projects.
• Conceptual thinker with a sharp eye for cross-channel consistency.
• Confident communicator who presents creative decisions at executive level.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of brand and campaign platforms — translate strategy into big, extensible ideas across channels.
• Activate the Engine brand across campaigns, digital experiences, growth initiatives, product launches, and key moments.
• Own projects from brief to delivery — set direction, drive decisions, maintain high creative bar.
• Partner with Brand Strategy to ensure insight-driven, clearly positioned work.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and agency partners with clear direction and constructive feedback.
• Oversee smaller projects with the same ambition and craft as large campaigns.
• Present concepts to senior leadership with clarity and conviction.
• Identify opportunities to evolve the Brand into new channels and moments.

Skills

Brand campaigns

Integrated marketing

Creative direction

Campaign platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive presentation

Strategic thinking

Job description

About Engine

At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

About the Role

We're looking for a Principal Creative to join our Brand team. This role goes beyond creative direction and executing campaigns. It's about activating the Engine brand across its highest-impact moments and building the creative platforms that define how the brand shows up in the world.

You’ll lead integrated brand campaigns, digital experiences, growth campaigns, social content, and beyond. You’ll define the big ideas that anchor each initiative and drive them through to delivery with creative rigor and strategic clarity. This role requires someone who is as comfortable developing a campaign platform as they are rolling up their sleeves on a focused, highly creative project.

This role is critical to how Engine's brand comes to life in the market. You'll partner closely with Brand Strategy to ensure every campaign and experience is rooted in sharp insight and clear positioning—translating strategy into work that is bold, cohesive, and built to perform across every touchpoint.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of brand and campaign platforms — translating strategy into big, extensible ideas that scale across channels and contexts
• Activate the Engine brand across a wide range of initiatives including integrated campaigns, digital experiences, growth campaigns, product launches, and brand moments
• Own projects from brief through delivery — setting creative direction, driving decisions, and maintaining a high creative bar at every stage
• Partner closely with Brand Strategy to ensure creative work is grounded in sharp insight, clear positioning, and strategic intent
• Lead and inspire multi-disciplinary creative teams and agency partners, providing clear direction and meaningful feedback throughout the creative process
• Oversee smaller, highly creative projects with the same ambition and craft as large-scale campaigns, no project is too small to be exceptional
• Present creative concepts and campaign platforms to senior stakeholders and executive leadership with clarity and conviction
• Identify opportunities to extend and evolve the Engine brand into new channels, formats, and moments

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in creative direction or integrated marketing, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking across brand campaigns, digital experiences, and growth creative
• Proven track record of developing brand and campaign platforms from brief through launch, at an exceptionally high creative bar
• Strong project lead, you are organized, decisive, and able to drive complex creative initiatives forward without losing creative momentum
• Deep partnership instincts, you know how to work closely with strategists, designers, copywriters, and producers to get to the best possible work
• Equally comfortable leading large-scale integrated campaigns and highly focused, craft-driven creative projects
• Highly conceptual with a sharp eye for how ideas extend and behave across touchpoints, channels, and formats
• Confident communicator and presenter who can advocate for creative decisions at the executive level
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where strategic clarity and creative ambition have to coexist

Applications for this role will be accepted through July 15th or until the role is filled.

Compensation

Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, total compensation may include equity and/or variable pay (OTE). Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.

Base Pay Range: $173,000 — $240,000 USD

The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation

We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:

• Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.

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