Temp Associate Creative Director, OleHenriksen

kendo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 101,000; Part time

Job summary

Kendo, a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer, seeks a Temp Associate Creative Director for Ole Henriksen. The role directs visual identity and brand expression across campaigns, pairing with the copy lead, and overseeing a small design team to execute concepts for in-store, print, and social platforms.

The position is hybrid, based in downtown San Francisco, with Tuesday to Thursday in-office and Monday/Friday remote.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of design and art direction experience in beauty or lifestyle brands.
• Demonstrated ability to hold a distinct brand visual world and voice across multiple campaign moments.
• Demonstrated ability to produce work that resonates on social (Meta, TikTok, YouTube).
• Strong understanding of native-to-platform art direction; campaigns that are social first.
• Experience working in a creative pairing model—co-leading with a copy partner.
• Strong campaign concepting skills—able to generate original creative territories.
• Comfortable functioning as both a director and an individual contributor.
• Visual merchandising design experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ole Henriksen creative direction—visual identity, campaign concepting, and brand expression across all touchpoints.
• Creative concepting for all Ole campaign moments—from initial territory through execution brief.
• Art direction for Ole campaign shoots—shot lists, casting direction, set and prop direction with Sr. CD.
• Collaborates with head of copy—joint concepting, shared briefing, aligned delivery.
• Campaign execution quality—ensures all design output meets the creative brief.
• Direct reports include three designers; provide feedback and creative direction.

Skills

Six-plus years experience

Brand visual world

Social-first campaigns

Platform-native art direction

Creative pairing with copy

Campaign concepting

Director with IC capability

Visual merchandising (nice-to-have)

Job description

TEMP ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR – OLEHENRIKSEN

Reports to: Senior Creative Director, Design

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• “Can Do” Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It’s our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this temp position is $61.00 - $73.00 per hour. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and San Francisco location. This is a hybrid role based in our downtown San Francisco office – Tues through Thursday in-office, with Monday and Friday remote.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes:Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, Lip Lab.

SUMMARY

The Temp Creative Director holds the visual creative direction and brand vision specifically for OH, translating the overarching creative strategy into a distinct, consistent aesthetic that is right for that brand. Paired closely with the head of copy, they function as a creative duo: concepting together, briefing the execution layer together, and delivering together. This role understands creative’s role in the current marketing landscape, and is able to concept assets for traditional placements (in-store, print) as well as native-to-platform content (social). They are open to thinking differently and approaching creative content to meet the needs of the moment. They also bring management skills, and manage a team of five designers. This person is both a strong conceptual thinker and a hands‑on maker.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ole Henriksen creative direction—visual identity, campaign concepting, and brand expression across all touchpoints
• Creative concepting for all Ole campaign moments—major and minor—from initial territory through execution brief
• Art direction for Ole campaign shoots—shot lists, casting direction, set and prop direction in partnership with the Sr. CD
• Collaborates with head of copy—joint concepting, shared briefing, aligned delivery
• Campaign execution quality—ensures all design output across the execution layer meets the creative brief
• Direct reports include three designers; provide feedback and creative direction to their work

REQUIREMENTS

• 6+ years of design and art direction experience, with a strong beauty or lifestyle brand portfolio
• Demonstrated ability to hold a distinct brand visual world and voice across multiple campaign moments
• Demonstrated ability to produce work that resonates on social (Meta, Tiktok, Youtube)
• Strong understanding of native to platform art direction; ability to develop campaigns that are social first
• Experience working in a creative pairing model—knows how to co‑lead with a copy partner
• Strong campaign concepting skills—able to generate original creative territories, not just execute briefs
• Comfortable functioning as both a director and an individual contributor
• Visual merchandising design experience a plus