Creative Director, Brand

Posted 23 Days Ago
3 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Entry level
Information Technology • Software • Design
The Role
Lead brand strategy, positioning, messaging, identity, and creative direction for startup and technology clients. Manage projects from discovery through delivery, develop narratives and integrated campaigns across film, social, web, experiential, and paid channels, and direct multidisciplinary teams. Present and sell creative work to clients, support new business, mentor team members, and help grow Nen’s brand practice and commercial capabilities.
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Location

Must be based in the United States.

About Nen Creative

Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth.

Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more.

We're growing quickly and looking for a creative leader to help lead our brand practice and shape the next chapter of Nen.

About the Role

We're looking for a Creative Director, Brand to lead our brand strategy, identity, and creative work. You'll work directly with founders and clients to shape the strategy and story, and turn bold ideas into compelling brands and creative ideas. You'll work with our team of designers, strategists, writers, and other creatives to bring those ideas to life.

You'll also help us expand into larger integrated campaigns, helping clients think more broadly about launches and marketing initiatives across film, social, digital, experiential, paid, and more.

This is a role for someone with exceptional creative taste, strong strategic instincts, and the ability to sell and market an idea. You should know what great creative looks like and how to lead a team to get there.

What You'll Do
  • Lead brand strategy, positioning, messaging, identity, and creative direction

  • Lead projects from early discovery and concept development through final delivery

  • Develop strong narratives, creative platforms, campaign ideas, and copy

  • Direct multidisciplinary creative teams

  • Lead client presentations, workshops, and key creative conversations

  • Own creative thinking for brand pitches and support new business

  • Identify opportunities to turn individual projects into larger creative campaigns

  • Develop integrated ideas across film, social, web, experiential, paid, and other channels

  • Partner with video leadership to bring larger campaign ideas to life

  • Help grow the quality, capabilities, and commercial potential of our brand practice

What We're Looking For
  • Strong experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, or creative leadership at a branding studio or creative agency

  • Exceptional creative judgment and a strong eye for design

  • Strong writing, storytelling, positioning, and messaging skills

  • Experience leading brand strategy and identity engagements

  • Experience developing campaigns or creative work across multiple channels

  • Ability to turn business and audience insights into compelling creative ideas

  • Excellent client presence and confidence presenting and selling creative work

  • Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams

  • Commercial instincts and an interest in growing client relationships

  • Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and excited to help build something

Bonus Points
  • Hands-on design or art direction experience

  • Experience across both brand strategy and integrated marketing campaigns

  • Experience working with startups or technology companies

  • Experience collaborating with film, motion, production, or experiential teams

  • Experience pitching and winning new business

Why Join Us
  • Lead and shape the brand practice of a fast-growing independent creative studio

  • Work directly with ambitious founders and technology companies

  • Help evolve Nen from individual brand and video engagements into larger creative campaigns

  • Have meaningful influence over both the work and how the studio grows

  • Collaborate with strong teams across brand, design, film, motion, and production

  • Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment

  • Healthcare coverage, PTO, and company holidays

Skills Required

  • Strong experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, or creative leadership at a branding studio or creative agency
  • Exceptional creative judgment and a strong eye for design
  • Strong writing, storytelling, positioning, and messaging skills
  • Experience leading brand strategy and identity engagements
  • Experience developing campaigns or creative work across multiple channels
  • Ability to turn business and audience insights into compelling creative ideas
  • Excellent client presence and confidence presenting and selling creative work
  • Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams
  • Commercial instincts and an interest in growing client relationships
  • Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and excited to help build something
  • Hands-on design or art direction experience
  • Experience across both brand strategy and integrated marketing campaigns
  • Experience working with startups or technology companies
  • Experience collaborating with film, motion, production, or experiential teams
  • Experience pitching and winning new business
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The Company
HQ: Jersey City, NJ
21 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Design studio that empowers early-stage companies to tell their story and build their vision. Capabilities include brand identity, pitch deck design/development, websites, and UI design. Clients include Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, LA-Tech Week, Wildr, Mantis VC, and more.

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