[Hiring] CREATIVE DIRECTOR @Jack In The Box

Role Description

This role leads the Jack Design Studio, overseeing internal creative talent and external partners to deliver distinctive, high-quality brand experiences across every customer touchpoint. As the steward of Jack in the Box’s visual identity and creative standards, this leader shapes and evolves the brand’s design language while translating creative vision into compelling, culturally relevant work across campaigns, digital channels, packaging, merchandising, and restaurant environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Communications, Marketing, Fine Arts or a related field preferred.
• Significant creative leadership experience within a consumer brand, restaurant, retail, entertainment, agency or similarly fast-paced marketing environment.
• Experience developing or evolving visual identity systems for a recognizable consumer brand.
• Restaurant, retail or other multi-location consumer experience required, particularly experience with menu boards, merchandising, signage and point-of-purchase communication.

Requirements

• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and learning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive organizational alignment.
• Champions cross-functional collaboration and teamwork.
• Develops talent and creates an environment of inclusion, engagement, and growth.
• Builds trust through transparency, consistency, and strong decision-making and high standards of integrity and accountability.
• Strong collaborator who can influence senior stakeholders while maintaining a clear creative point of view.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams across brand design, graphic design, copy and production.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating outstanding brand identity, integrated campaign, digital and physical or retail design work.
• Exceptional creative judgment and a highly developed eye for design, typography, photography, visual storytelling and craft.
• Ability to build brands as systems, creating clear design principles that can flex across hundreds of executions without losing distinctiveness.
• Strong understanding of contemporary culture, design, entertainment, social and consumer trends.
• Ability to move comfortably between big creative ideas and highly tactical execution.
• Strong creative-directing skills and ability to give clear, inspiring and actionable feedback.
• Strong understanding of print production, digital design, content production and asset development.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple overlapping marketing programs and deadlines.
• Comfortable challenging convention and advocating for bold ideas while remaining open to feedback and iteration.
• Excellent communication, presentation and storytelling skills.
• Proficient knowledge of personal computers and Microsoft Office 365 (i.e., Word, Excel).
• Demonstrates integrity and ethical behavior.
• Ability to communicate clearly in person and on the telephone.
• Ability to operate a computer keyboard.
• Ability to travel approximately 20-25% of time as business needs require.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and Total Rewards package that includes: medical, dental, vision, Health Spending Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Life and Disability Plans, 401(k) plan with company match, Legal Plan, Pet Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Fun and innovative culture – ‘Work Happy’ with us!
• The range for this position is $180,000 - $280,000 based on an employee located at our corporate headquarters. Geographic pay differential may apply for remote candidates based on local labor costs.