6 days ago

Founding Creative Director

Jobgether

Netherlands

6 days ago

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Founding Creative Director needed for a fast-moving internet marketplace company entering significant product and brand growth. The role requires owning creative direction across launches, positioning, storytelling, and design systems, with hands-on execution and eventual team building. Based in the Netherlands, on-site, full-time.

AI-enabledOn-siteFull-timeEntry LevelCreative DirectionBranding

Founding Creative Director

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AI-enabledOn-siteFull-timeEntry LevelCreative Direction

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Netherlands, NL

Work Model

On-site

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Not Applicable

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Creative DirectionBrandingDesign SystemsStorytellingNarrativePositioningAI ToolsDigital ExperiencesMotion DesignContent CreationLanding PagesLaunch VideosPresentationsSocial ContentGo-to-Market Assets

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationStrategic ThinkingOwnershipJudgmentAdaptabilityProactiveLow-egoHigh StandardsWritten Communication

Key Responsibilities

•Own the creative vision and direction across the brand, ensuring consistency and excellence across every customer-facing touchpoint.
•Define narrative, positioning, and creative strategy for product launches, treating design as a strategic business tool rather than decoration.
•Personally create and ship high-impact work during the first year, including landing pages, launch videos, presentations, social content, and other go-to-market assets.
•Own and evolve the design system, establishing a scalable creative foundation for future products and campaigns.
•Act as the ultimate creative quality bar, creating or approving anything that is released under the brand.
•Partner directly with the founding team to turn complex products and ideas into compelling stories, experiences, and market-facing narratives.
•Build and eventually lead a lean internal creative function of approximately two to three people across design, motion, and content.
•Establish processes that allow the creative team to brief, position, produce, and launch work independently without relying heavily on external agencies.
•Maintain a high standard of execution while managing multiple launches and priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
•Champion the effective use of AI throughout the creative workflow, identifying new tools and workflows that improve speed, experimentation, and quality.

Creative DirectorDesignBrandingAIInternet MarketplaceFull-timeOn-siteNetherlandsLeadershipFounding Role

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationStrategic ThinkingOwnershipJudgmentAdaptabilityProactiveLow-egoHigh StandardsWritten Communication

Key Responsibilities

•Own the creative vision and direction across the brand, ensuring consistency and excellence across every customer-facing touchpoint.

•Define narrative, positioning, and creative strategy for product launches, treating design as a strategic business tool rather than decoration.

•Personally create and ship high-impact work during the first year, including landing pages, launch videos, presentations, social content, and other go-to-market assets.

•Own and evolve the design system, establishing a scalable creative foundation for future products and campaigns.

•Act as the ultimate creative quality bar, creating or approving anything that is released under the brand.

•Partner directly with the founding team to turn complex products and ideas into compelling stories, experiences, and market-facing narratives.

•Build and eventually lead a lean internal creative function of approximately two to three people across design, motion, and content.

•Establish processes that allow the creative team to brief, position, produce, and launch work independently without relying heavily on external agencies.

•Maintain a high standard of execution while managing multiple launches and priorities in a rapidly changing environment.

•Champion the effective use of AI throughout the creative workflow, identifying new tools and workflows that improve speed, experimentation, and quality.