The community you will join: 

The Creative Lead, Art will report to the Director of Brand Creative and be based in San Francisco. They will be responsible for leading full-scale integrated campaigns from concept to completion, helping to raise the bar of creative excellence in our team.  

The difference you will make: 

Airbnb is looking for a driven and inspirational creative leader to join the Creative Team, our internal, multi-disciplinary team of creatives. Across design, copywriting, photography, film/tv, experiential, social and interactive disciplines, this team stewards the Airbnb brand and focuses on creating meaningful engagements between our brand and rapidly-growing extended community. We are a global team, connected to every department in the company as well as to outside agencies, production companies and creatives. Together with these partners, we develop concrete, creative solutions to sometimes vague or ambiguous problems. 

Frequently acting as the senior creative leader of an integrated project team, you effectively communicate with fellow team members and other partners within Airbnb, strategically multi-task, and proactively solve problems, all while meeting tight production deadlines. You make decisions confidently and quickly, in an effort to support Airbnb’s creative vision. You will be working daily in collaboration with Creative Leadership, Production Leads, Marketing Leadership, and Program Managers, to create advertising concepts in a demanding, fast-paced environment.  Our ideal candidate has a portfolio of varied work with demonstrated success building brands, particularly lifestyle brands. 

A typical day:

• This is a hands-on as well as strategic role to lead and create best-in-class creative brand campaigns, conceptualization and execution of creative solutions alongside a Creative Lead, Copy partner. This includes generating big creative ideas and executing work on their own, as well as managing and approving the work of their assigned creative team. 
• Mentor junior creatives, guiding them to generate a wide range of concepts, high-level design and art direction, providing evaluation, mentorship, and counsel.
• Foster a respectful and collaborative environment. 
• Define and develop creative best practices to create compelling, conceptual visual brand campaigns.
• Help ensure quality visual/art direction production and effective communication with creative teammates, agency partners, production companies, and external clients. 

Your expertise:

• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience leading global brand campaigns, preferably a mix of advertising agency, creative studio, and in-house experience. 
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating best-in-class campaign work. 
• Demonstrated success in leading multiple cross-media campaigns. 
• Strong conceptual and brainstorming skills, leading and participating whenever needed. 
• Experience collaborating closely with Brand Management teams. Ability to translate market research, data, and strategy to creative solutions.
• Flexible and dependable.
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically, concept through execution. 
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills—you can effectively communicate and passionately defend decisions both internally and to clients.  
• Empathy for the customer, and empathy for individuals on a creative team.
• Passionate about Airbnb’s mission and purpose. 

A CURRENT PORTFOLIO OF WORK IS REQUIRED FOR EACH APPLICANT.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. There is an expectation to be available for West cost hours in this role. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.