Creative Director

Creative Director Department: Creative Reports to: Co-Chief Executive Officer Location: Fully remote (Eastern time zone preferred) Type: Full-time Salary Range: $150-$170K ABOUT BELLWEATHER Bellweather is a creative agency for legacy brands: the nonprofits, cultural institutions, healthcare systems, and government organizations that are part of people’s lives. We’ve spent a decade helping these organizations find what makes them matter and bringing it to life through immersive research, artistic collaboration, and creative work that doesn’t look or feel like anyone else’s. Our clients include Brooklyn Public Library, MetroPlusHealth, Museum Hue, NYC Votes, and Visit Baltimore, among others. We're a certified woman-owned business and a Webby Award–winning agency. Our work starts with immersive research and deep listening. We spend time in communities, collaborating with artists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers to find what makes an organization extraordinary. From there, we build strategic platforms and brand identities that our clients can own and carry forward long after the engagement ends. ABOUT THE NAME Our name combines "bellwether" (a leading indicator) and "weather" (constant change). We help organizations find what makes them extraordinary and give it a platform that lasts. HOW WE WORK Bellweather is a fully remote company. Our team is distributed across the U.S., with most of our collaboration happening in Eastern time. We've built our workflows, meetings, and creative process around remote work from the start. ______________________________ THE ROLE The Creative Director leads Bellweather's Creative department — a team of graphic designers, photographers, videographers, and copywriters — and shapes the creative direction of every project, keeping our work aligned with client objectives, market trends, and the standard of quality Bellweather is known for. Day to day, you'll move between big-picture vision and hands-on craft: partnering with the Strategy team to define creative direction, leading concept development, presenting work to clients, and providing creative oversight on photo and video shoots — from approving cast, wardrobe, and shot lists to traveling on site as the creative lead when a production needs your eye. You'll also run the operational side of the department: allocating resources across projects, managing freelancers and vendors, and continuously sharpening how the team works. Success in the first six months looks like a creative team that's energized and growing under your mentorship, client work that's completed on time and on budget without sacrificing craft, and a few pitches where your creative vision helped win the room. This position reports directly to the Co-Chief Executive Officer. ______________________________ WHAT YOU’LL DO Job responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Ideate and Create: (35%) Creative Vision: Collaborate with the Strategy team to define the creative vision and direction for projects, ensuring alignment with overall business goals. Creative Leadership: Lead the creative team in developing innovative, strategy-driven solutions that resonate with target audiences. Industry Trends: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure Bellweather maintains a leading edge in creative innovation. Creative Pitches: Oversee the development of creative pitches, ensuring they are compelling and aligned with client needs. Presentations: Deliver persuasive presentations of creative concepts and scaled deliverables to clients, effectively communicating the vision and value of proposed solutions. Creative Quality: Ensure all creative output meets the highest standards of quality, creativity, and innovation. Scale: (30%) Media Plans: Utilize a thorough understanding of media plans and scopes of work to bring creative concepts to market effectively. Project Development: Oversee the development and execution of pr

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