Associate Creative Director, Design

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. 

We are looking for an Associate Creative Director, Design, to help lead one of our most exciting creative tech accounts. In this role, you’ll partner directly with our clients in an embedded capacity to create world-class CRM emails that both adhere to established standards and push the creative in new directions. You’ll be hands-on in the work as an experienced designer, while guiding other designers on your team as a project lead. If the term conceptual digital design, alongside detailed execution, resonates with you, then this role may be a fit.

While Kettle is a remote first company, this role requires the team to work PST hours regardless of location.

Candidates should have:

• Significant experience in digital design, with email/CRM case studies and campaigns, and the ability to create pixel perfect designs while innovating work.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including copy, motion, production, and client partners. 

• Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present work internally and to senior level clients.

• Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior level designers, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas.

• While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients.

We’d like to know that you can:

• Understand and challenge your clients’ needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work.

• Succeed in an embedded capacity, working alongside clients every day, and serving as a representative of Kettle while remaining an active and valuable member of our agency community.

• Be the person the client looks up to be inspired and to get their creative questions asked. Help them understand the team’s perspective and align on the creative North Star.

• Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same.

• Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, innovative design, and on-point tone & voice.

• Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs.

• Consistently demonstrate an expertise in the competitive landscape from a creative standpoint, and stay abreast of design culture and best-in-class creative across channels.

• Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow.

• Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - 170k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.