Senior Creative Director, Fintech Marketing & Brand

NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybride; USD 166 000 - 216 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Generous PTO

7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Optional

1 Service Day Annually

401k with 3.5% Company Match

Life and Disability Insurance

Résumé du poste

NinjaTrader is seeking a Creative Director to own how the company looks, sounds, and feels across every marketing surface. This senior role reports to the CMO and will elevate our visual identity to reflect a dynamic, growing brand in the trading space.

You will lead a hands-on, senior creative effort, shaping brand guidelines, campaigns, and web design, while managing internal and external partners to ship at volume.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of brand and creative experience, with 2+ years leading a team as an ACD, CD or design lead.
• A portfolio built on systems, not one-offs.
• Storytelling range — able to develop narrative, not only art-direct someone else's script.
• Range across brand campaign work and performance creative.
• A desire to remain hands-on — actively driven to stay in the work, not just direct it.
• Fluency with AI tooling in the creative process.
• A track record of managing designers and directing external agencies.
• Comfort with performance data.

Responsabilités

• Operationalize the brand identity system — typography, color, photography and illustration direction, motion language, iconography, layout systems — and extend it into the surfaces it does not yet cover
• Own the marketing design system: build it to scale across campaign, web, lifecycle and partner surfaces, and to hold up when other hands use it
• Establish the governance that keeps the system intact — standards, documentation, review, and the authority to say no
• Act as the final quality gate on brand expression across marketing
• Concept and direct integrated campaigns from brief to launch — video, social, paid, OOH, sponsorship, events
• Develop the narrative, not just the look. You will shape the story a piece of video tells, then art-direct the production that delivers it
• Own marketing web and landing page design, including the pages that carry acquisition and conversion volume
• Direct lifecycle and product marketing creative so the experience stays coherent from first impression to funded account
• Stay personally in the work on hero projects — concepting, designing, writing direction, cutting with the editor
• Hire, manage and develop a small in-house design team; set the critique culture and the standard
• Brief, direct and evaluate agencies, production partners and freelancers; own creative quality of outsourced work
• Build the operating rhythm — briefs, reviews, handoffs — that lets a small team ship at volume
• Grow into broader creative ownership over time, including copy and video production
• Partner with Product Design on shared brand guidelines so marketing and platform surfaces stay recognizably the same brand
• Work with performance marketing to build creative that is testable, iterable and measured against funnel outcomes
• Operate fluently inside a regulated marketing environment, partnering with compliance early rather than treating review as a downstream tax

Connaissances

Brand leadership

Creative direction

Storytelling

Brand campaigns

Hands-on design

AI tooling

People management

Agency collaboration

Description du poste

NinjaTrader is seeking a Creative Director to own how the company looks, sounds, and feels across every marketing surface. This senior role reports to the CMO and will elevate our visual identity to reflect a dynamic, growing brand in the trading space.

You will lead a hands-on, senior creative effort, shaping brand guidelines, campaigns, and web design, while managing internal and external partners to ship at volume.