Senior Director of Creative

Articulate is looking for an exceptional Senior Director of Creative to lead our marketing design team and tell the Articulate story through visual media. This role will report to our CMO.

The Senior Director of Creative will manage and grow an expanding team of talented designers and animators across a variety of disciplines. You’ll be responsible for directing all digital and traditional brand and marketing design, illustration, video production, and motion graphics. 

As the Senior Director of Creative, you’ll be responsible for creating new ways to tell compelling stories in ways that break through the noise to reach specific audiences. You’re a master storyteller with flawless execution in all visual mediums, and an inspirational leader who guides a high-functioning team to produce assets that engage, inspire, and delight audiences.

What you'll do:

• Oversee all advertising, branding, marketing design, and social creative to effectively tell our brand and product stories 

• Build and manage a growing team of talented creatives across a variety of creative disciplines including traditional brand work, digital/interactive design, motion graphics, illustration, and video production

• Collaborate with demand gen, product design, communications, and engineering teams to understand every aspect of the Articulate story and create visual assets that tell this story in ways that deeply impact our target audiences

• Leverage a deep understanding of design principles to provide highly detailed feedback to team members, helping them transform concepts into polished designs 

• Lead creative development and execution on new visual design treatments and concepts to evolve our visual storytelling and keep our design work competitive with top consumer/saas companies

• Execute high-quality, industry competitive design work when team isn’t able to visualize direction for a new project through use of mood boards or competitive audits

• Intelligently identify new opportunities for the design team to deliver motion and prototype work that will help better tell our brand and product stories

• Meet with executive and product management team regularly to discuss and prioritize team work, resources, and plan strategically against the product roadmap

• Direct the video production team to produce high quality, on brand video assets and motion graphics

• Drive team productivity with effective distribution of work among team members

• Support the growth of our designers and animators, helping them sharpen their creative skills and embrace a shared aesthetic and vision

• Guide our marketing design team to build well-structured, internal design systems, design resources, templates, and other assets to optimize consistency and production 

• Ensure a successful exchange between design and development to drive digital marketing projects forward, identify blockers, and resolve

• Work closely with the design team in testing recently built marketing pages and/or living assets including responsive testing to make sure projects are completed to spec

• Develop and nurture a culture centered around good design, collaboration, and thoughtful decision-making 

• Maintain accurate and current knowledge of new design techniques and applicable brand/marketing design trends

What you should have:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in visual design, including web design, motion graphics, branding, digital design, and tradition print design

• You have a refined eye for design across a variety of platforms with the ability to direct creatives in multiple channels including digital marketing, traditional branding, photo/video production, and motion graphics

• Highly experienced in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop and most of Adobe Creative Suite

• You have successful prior experience in a senior art director or creative director role for a an impressive consumer app, agency, or a remarkable portfolio

• Shifting context comes easy to you and you enjoy collaborating with team members to help them get the most out of and refine their skills

• Working cross-functionally with a variety of teams and stakeholders is a familiar process for you, including fostering a healthy relationship between creative and development teams

• You are comfortable helping project management to prioritize a team’s work, setting deadlines, delivering constructive feedback, and resolving conflicts

• You possess passion and know-how for creating amazing brand design systems and an appreciation for elegant digital design that speak to a brand

• You are full of creative ideas and a proponent of thorough testing to get materials right and improve upon them in an iterative cycle

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills—and a thoughtful, trustworthy doer

• Ability to build positive, collaborative relationships with folks across different teams and at all levels of the organization 

• Resilient, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment 

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience

About Articulate

Articulate Global, LLC, is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. Founded by Adam Schwartz in 2002 and led by CEO Lucy Suros, Articulate provides creator tools and services that make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online workplace training that’s engaging and effective. 

Increasingly, organizations must reskill employees for ever-changing remote and hybrid work environments, create learning cultures that attract and retain employees in a tight labor market, and use training to build more equitable, empowering, and engaging workplaces. Articulate helps organizations address these critical business needs with its creator platform for workplace training. Articulate 360—a suite of creator tools for online courses—was named the 7th most-loved product in the world by TrustRadius. And Rise—an all-in-one online training system that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage—is the first creator platform for SMBs and departments within the enterprise. Articulate has more than 106,000 customers in 161 countries and counts all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers.

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2020 and a leader in building a human-centered organization, Articulate is guided by a commitment to provide the best value to customers, do right by employees, and create an equitable, empowering workplace for all. As a human-centered organization, we honor people’s humanity knowing that each person’s unique history, vulnerabilities, and social location inform how we show up with one another. We embrace our connectedness, aware that what we do and say impacts others. We give each other grace because we are all works in progress, learning and evolving every day. And we take responsibility for ourselves and are serious about our accountability to each other.  In all we do, we strive to create an equitable, sustainable, and empowering workplace while we drive results for the business and make a positive impact in the world. Read more about our values here.

Articulate welcomes different voices and viewpoints and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, native language, pregnancy status, physical size, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, and military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an equal opportunity employer and invite applicants to voluntarily disclose their race and gender on our application form to help us create a diverse company. This voluntarily disclosed information will not be shared with any hiring manager and will be kept in confidence by the Articulate human resources department and executives who are not hiring for this position.