We’re hiring a Director, Creative Studio to lead Culture Amp’s in-house creative studio, the team responsible for how our brand shows up everywhere: campaigns, content, product launches, events, and everything in between. This is the defining marketing creative leadership role at the company.
As the Director, Creative Studio you’ll set the visual and verbal direction for one of the most purposeful brands in HR technology. You’ll lead a studio that doesn’t just execute requests, rather it shapes how the world understands what Culture Amp is and why it matters. The studio is the engine behind our brand, and you’ll be the one driving it forward.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing creative team, empowering both managers and individual contributors to do their best work
- Own the Culture Amp brand system and visual identity guidelines, ensuring cohesion, creativity, and consistent global application
- Drive creative strategy across integrated campaigns spanning product launches, thought leadership, customer marketing and more.
- Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Product to deliver brand experiences that drive measurable impact
- Advocate for brand and design as strategic business drivers, connecting creative excellence to pipeline and business outcomes
- Develop and retain top creative talent, fostering a culture of creativity, accountability, and growth
What we're looking for
- Ideally 10+ years of experience in brand design, including 5+ years leading and scaling creative teams in high-growth, cross-functional environments
- Proven track record of shaping and evolving high-profile brand systems at scale
- Exceptional creative direction skills with a strong portfolio of system-level, strategic brand work
- Deep expertise in brand strategy, identity systems, and translating design across diverse environments
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and aligning senior stakeholders around a shared creative vision
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, you can influence and align leaders and teams at all levels
- Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity, and organizational change
- Systems thinker, able to scale creative through documentation, process, and tooling without losing the craft
- A sharp eye for detail, consistency, and what good actually looks like
How we work
We're distributed across Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Melbourne. You'll report to the VP of Corporate Marketing and collaborate across the marketing organization. We value clear, direct communication over corporate jargon. We ship iteratively rather than waiting for perfection. We protect creative quality while staying grounded in business impact.
