[Hiring] Creative Director @Insider One

Role Description

We’re looking for a bold, visionary, and obsessively detail-oriented Creative Director to lead Insider’s global marketing design and brand experience. This is a hands-on leadership role for individuals who thrive in fast-paced environments, where brand and business impact are closely intertwined. Reporting to the VP of Brand and Communications, you'll own the creative output of Insider One’s marketing team, from high-impact brand campaigns to our design system, AI usage, and scaling design operations.

You’ll be the keeper of the brand, the shaper of visual identity, and the leader of a growing design ecosystem made up of in-house designers and freelancers, and agency partners. You’ll partner with leaders across Go-To-Market, Demand Gen, Digital, Growth, and Events to bring ideas to life, ensuring everything we create doesn’t just look great, but performs.

What You Will Do

• Lead and scale Insider’s global creative function—guiding vision, setting standards, and elevating execution across all marketing touchpoints.
• Own and evolve Insider’s visual identity and brand systems, for campaigns, events, paid media, website, and product storytelling.
• Build and manage a high-performing hybrid team of in-house designers and freelancers to execute across multiple time zones and projects.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to co-own and deliver high-impact campaigns and design assets.
• Translate briefs and business needs into creative direction that inspires, performs, and scales.
• Ensure every design decision reflects an eye for detail, a deep understanding of our brand, and a strong sense of craft.
• Manage creative budget, resources, timelines, and priorities with ruthless clarity.
• Establish workflows and systems that enable us to move quickly without compromising quality.
• Provide thoughtful, candid feedback that grows people and sharpens the work.
• Champion the brand internally and externally ensuring consistency and clarity across every execution, big or small.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in creative, brand, or design roles with at least 2 years in a leadership capacity within fast-growth B2B SaaS or agency environments.
• A portfolio that demonstrates deep expertise in branding, marketing campaigns, and design systems.
• Meticulous attention to detail, whether reviewing a campaign concept or an event booth mock-up.
• A track record of extreme accountability, owning creative outputs end-to-end, from ideation to execution to post-launch optimization.
• Proven AI adoption across brand systems to scale output while maintaining standards.
• Proven leadership skills with experience managing multi-disciplinary teams, freelancers, and agencies across time zones.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and speed, while bringing clarity and direction to the team.
• Strong creative instincts paired with business acumen; you understand how to use design to solve real business problems.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially when co-owning projects with other departments and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Confident managing creative budgets, tooling, and resource planning.
• Experience implementing scalable design operations and feedback loops.
• Obsession with elevating the brand and creative output across every channel.
• Passion for storytelling, customer experience, and high-performance design.
• Comfortable working across multiple time zones and flexing hours when needed to meet critical milestones.

Benefits

• Enjoy a monthly meal allowance designed to enhance your daily routine.
• Access comprehensive private health insurance.
• Feed your curiosity with access to Spotify, LinkedIn Learning, Blinkist, MasterClass, and Neoskola, and CloudGuru.
• Level up with internal trainings covering AI fundamentals, coding, foreign languages, and a wide range of personal development skills.
• Be part of a diverse team that’s as global as it gets, where every voice is heard and 50+ nationalities build together.
• Become a Shareowner through our eligibility-based “ESOP” and own a piece of what you build.
• Help build the team you want to work with and enjoy rewarding referral bonuses.
• Opportunities to give back to your community through volunteering and purpose-driven social impact projects.
• From global retreats to team-building activities, expect year-round events that turn into lifelong memories.
• Get inspired by the greatest minds in the tech industry through events like our Tech & Dev Talks.