Creative Director, Marketing – Brand
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Creative Director for Chess.com, defining and evolving brand identity while leading creative marketing initiatives remotely. Seeking a visionary designer with extensive experience in brand and marketing leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the Chess.com brand identity across a spectrum of touchpoints—from campaign visuals to social presence to product launches
- Design and art direct major brand campaigns from concept through final execution
- Lead the visual direction for product launches, performance marketing, social campaigns, sponsorships, and special events
- Personally design the highest-impact creative work while mentoring and elevating the work of others
- Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Content, and Community to ensure cohesive storytelling across channels
- Translate strategy, consumer insights, and marketing goals into compelling creative concepts and world-class visual design
- Advance brand guidelines and design systems that support creative quality at scale
- Guide creative resourcing and asset pipelines to ensure quality across the board
- Push boundaries and help us take bold creative risks—while keeping the brand grounded in tradition, authenticity, and fun
- Build creative that strengthens both long-term brand equity and measurable business growth
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or creative leadership
- Grandmaster-level visual design skills with exceptional craft across typography, layout, composition, branding, and digital design using Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern creative tools
- A portfolio demonstrating outstanding campaign work, exceptional design craft, and creative thinking that drove measurable business results
- Proven success defining and executing compelling creative vision with a strong design eye and instinct for modern visual culture
- Deep understanding of advertising, brand design, performance marketing, and multi-channel campaign development
- Success understanding and bridging the gap between product and marketing
- Experience building and scaling creative teams in high-growth environments
- Strong art direction skills across illustration, motion, photography, and emerging creative technologies
- Collaborative and confident communicator
- Comfort working and connecting in a remote environment
- Versatile, flexible, and willing to do what’s needed
- You know when to follow best practices—and when to ignore them in pursuit of something unforgettable
Benefits:
- 100% remote work (work from anywhere!)
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