Associate Director, Creative

• Define and evolve Notability's creative direction: visual identity, tone, and expression across marketing channels.
• Translate business and campaign goals into clear creative concepts, and ensure consistency across every brand-facing touchpoint.
• Ensure the brand identity system scales across future channels, campaigns, and media.
• Partner closely with the Director of Design to keep brand, marketing, and product expression unified, jointly shaping the visual language they share.

• Own the day-to-day relationship with our external creative agency.
• Write creative briefs that translate campaign goals and brand strategy into clear, actionable direction for the agency.
• Direct the work, review and approve creative output, and manage priorities and sequencing. The agency produces; you set the bar and hold it.

• Lead creative development for ads, landing pages, product launches, and brand campaigns, from concept through final delivery.
• Own the feedback loop between creative output and performance data, across both internal teams and the external agency.
• Push new creative formats, motion, and technologies as a direction-setter for how Notability communicates and engages.

• Own and evolve Notability's brand system (including visual identity, voice, and creative principles) across all marketing and communication channels.
• Define the templates and systems that make brand output scalable and consistent, including for channels owned by other team members.

• 6–8 years in brand, creative, or integrated marketing, with meaningful time in a consumer or DTC context
• Proven track record managing external creative agencies: directing, reviewing, and holding a high craft bar across deliverables
• Experienced brief writer. You can translate a business objective into a creative direction a team can actually execute against
• Strong creative instincts with the ability to articulate rationale to non-designers and connect creative decisions to business outcomes
• Fluency across brand identity, campaign creative, and social/content, with the judgment to keep them cohesive
• Experience collaborating with paid performance teams and keeping up with evolving creative requirements across paid platforms
• Experience in cross-functional leadership with design teams, including bringing a shared visual identity to life alongside a peer design leader
• Comfortable operating without a fully established playbook. This function is still being built

For this position we are targeting a base pay between $175K - $220k. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Each member of our team contributes to all parts of our products.  We trust each other to make decisions independently while also considering our common goals and values.  We share ideas openly, and we collaborate across disciplines to ensure that our decisions make sense from all perspectives.

We actively promote work-life balance.  Our schedules are flexible, our hybrid policy supports remote work when it makes sense, and we have a “as long as you get your work done” approach to time off.

We work in downtown SF near Market Street, just a short walk from two BART/Muni stations.  Our office has height-adjustable desks to help us stay limber, spacious conference rooms for both small and large team meetings, and a well-stocked kitchen full of goodies to enjoy :). Our team is growing, collaborative and down to earth.  We want everyone to do their best work and find passion in what they do.