- Location: Remote (Mid-west Preferred)
- Commitment: 20 hours/week
- Duration: 12 weeks with potential to extend based on business needs
- Hourly Rate: $80/hr
About the Company
Our client is a leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide powering multiple brands. Serving educators librarians and readers across institutional channels our client blends technology storytelling and access to culture at scale. As the company continues to mature its brand portfolio consistency clarity and creative excellence are critical to how its brands show up in the world.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Creative Director to partner with the internal design team and marketing leadership to elevate brand consistency creative quality and campaign execution across digital channels.
This role is equal parts strategic guide working creative and mentor. The ideal candidate brings deep design experience strong brand instincts and the ability to translate brand guidelines into real repeatable execution while also mentoring designers with clarity patience and respect.
This is not a purely advisory role. You will actively create mock up refine and ship work while helping the team learn how and why great brand work gets done.
Prioritized Responsibilities
Brand Stewardship & Creative Direction
Reinforce brand consistency across multi-brand portfolio
Translate brand guidelines into practical usable systems for designers and marketers
Ensure campaigns are immediately recognizable on-brand and emotionally resonant
Provide an external objective point of view to elevate creative decision-making
Hands-On Creative Execution
Concept design and mock up digital-first creative (campaigns templates retail marketplace assets toolkits)
Partner closely with designers to refine work in progress not just review at the end
Build clear creative briefs and visual examples that teams can execute against
Help establish best practices for usage of design tools while encouraging smart experimentation
Team Enablement & Mentorship
Coach designers on best practices in branding layout typography and visual systems
Model how to interpret a brief and translate it into effective creative
Build confidence and capability within the team so they can operate more independently over time
Help create a respectful collaborative learning environment
Campaign Thinking & Entertainment Value
Apply entertainment and storytelling tactics to institutional and educational audiences
Ensure campaigns are engaging without drifting off-brand
Help teams balance cultural relevance with long-term brand equity
Qualifications :
Who You Are
- 10 years of experience in design and brand marketing with time spent as a Creative Director or Associate Creative Director
- Strong foundation as a designer first with a proven transition into creative leadership
- Experience building evolving or enforcing brand systems that are applied to multiple assets campaigns and channels
- Comfort working inside established teams and navigating real-world constraints
- Background in entertainment media streaming or culture-driven brands preferred
- Confident managing visual direction and partnering with copy
- Fluent in digital-first environments; minimal print focus
Our Four Ps
Pedigree
- Proven experience leading brand and campaign work for recognized brands or platforms
- Background that blends hands-on design with creative leadership
- Demonstrated ability to elevate creative quality within in-house teams
Passion
- Interest in storytelling culture and content-driven brands
- Curiosity about education libraries reading or streaming ecosystems
Potential
- Ability to evolve brand systems as organizations scale and mature
- Shows growth mindset and adaptability in fast-changing environments
Play
- Collaborative generous and approachable working style
Additional Information :
We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the worlds biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018 We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works with an inclusive human-centric approach thats better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces the Inc.and Adweeks Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status marital status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Contract
Location: Remote (Mid-west Preferred)Commitment: 20 hours/weekDuration: 12 weeks with potential to extend based on business needsHourly Rate: $80/hr About the CompanyOur client is a leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide powering multiple brands. Serving educators libra...
- Location: Remote (Mid-west Preferred)
- Commitment: 20 hours/week
- Duration: 12 weeks with potential to extend based on business needs
- Hourly Rate: $80/hr
About the Company
Our client is a leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide powering multiple brands. Serving educators librarians and readers across institutional channels our client blends technology storytelling and access to culture at scale. As the company continues to mature its brand portfolio consistency clarity and creative excellence are critical to how its brands show up in the world.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Creative Director to partner with the internal design team and marketing leadership to elevate brand consistency creative quality and campaign execution across digital channels.
This role is equal parts strategic guide working creative and mentor. The ideal candidate brings deep design experience strong brand instincts and the ability to translate brand guidelines into real repeatable execution while also mentoring designers with clarity patience and respect.
This is not a purely advisory role. You will actively create mock up refine and ship work while helping the team learn how and why great brand work gets done.
Prioritized Responsibilities
Brand Stewardship & Creative Direction
Reinforce brand consistency across multi-brand portfolio
Translate brand guidelines into practical usable systems for designers and marketers
Ensure campaigns are immediately recognizable on-brand and emotionally resonant
Provide an external objective point of view to elevate creative decision-making
Hands-On Creative Execution
Concept design and mock up digital-first creative (campaigns templates retail marketplace assets toolkits)
Partner closely with designers to refine work in progress not just review at the end
Build clear creative briefs and visual examples that teams can execute against
Help establish best practices for usage of design tools while encouraging smart experimentation
Team Enablement & Mentorship
Coach designers on best practices in branding layout typography and visual systems
Model how to interpret a brief and translate it into effective creative
Build confidence and capability within the team so they can operate more independently over time
Help create a respectful collaborative learning environment
Campaign Thinking & Entertainment Value
Apply entertainment and storytelling tactics to institutional and educational audiences
Ensure campaigns are engaging without drifting off-brand
Help teams balance cultural relevance with long-term brand equity
Qualifications :
Who You Are
- 10 years of experience in design and brand marketing with time spent as a Creative Director or Associate Creative Director
- Strong foundation as a designer first with a proven transition into creative leadership
- Experience building evolving or enforcing brand systems that are applied to multiple assets campaigns and channels
- Comfort working inside established teams and navigating real-world constraints
- Background in entertainment media streaming or culture-driven brands preferred
- Confident managing visual direction and partnering with copy
- Fluent in digital-first environments; minimal print focus
Our Four Ps
Pedigree
- Proven experience leading brand and campaign work for recognized brands or platforms
- Background that blends hands-on design with creative leadership
- Demonstrated ability to elevate creative quality within in-house teams
Passion
- Interest in storytelling culture and content-driven brands
- Curiosity about education libraries reading or streaming ecosystems
Potential
- Ability to evolve brand systems as organizations scale and mature
- Shows growth mindset and adaptability in fast-changing environments
Play
- Collaborative generous and approachable working style
Additional Information :
We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the worlds biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018 We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works with an inclusive human-centric approach thats better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces the Inc.and Adweeks Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status marital status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Contract
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