PadSplit is entering a stage where creative is becoming a strategic growth lever not just a production function. Were looking for a Creative Director to elevate our brand lead our creative team and build a creative operation that drives trust acquisition and measurable business results while helping tell one of the most important missions in housing today. Youll have the opportunity to influence everything from national marketing campaigns and social content to the way members hosts and partners experience the PadSplit brand every day.
The Person We Are Looking For
Were looking for a creative leader who enjoys building as much as leading. This is a true player-coach role for someone who loves developing people embraces AI and modern creative tools and can balance exceptional brand storytelling with performance marketing that delivers measurable results. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable presenting creative strategy to executives coaching designers through feedback and rolling up their sleeves to help solve a creative challenge when needed.
Heres What Youll Be Doing Day-to-Day
Lead Creative Vision: Set and evolve PadSplits creative direction across every customer touchpoint while ensuring a consistent trusted brand experience.
Coach The Team: Lead mentor and develop designers contractors and agency partners while remaining hands-on in key creative initiatives.
Drive Campaigns: Partner with Marketing to create high-performing creative across paid organic lifecycle email social and emerging channels.
Build Operations: Establish scalable creative workflows production systems quality standards and resource management that enable speed without sacrificing quality.
Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Product Engineering Growth Legal and Operations to ensure creative is embedded early in major initiatives.
Strengthen Brand: Own PadSplits visual identity creative standards messaging consistency and overall brand reputation across every channel.
Leverage Customer Insights: Translate research customer feedback and performance data into stronger creative strategies and messaging.
Measure Performance: Use creative performance metrics experimentation and AI-powered workflows to continuously improve campaign effectiveness and creative output.
Heres What Youll Need to Be Successful
Creative Leadership: 8 years leading brand marketing or creative organizations with at least 3 years managing creative teams.
Player-Coach Style: Comfortable both leading others and personally contributing to creative strategy reviews and execution when needed.
Performance Mindset: Experience creating creative that not only looks exceptional but improves acquisition conversion and customer engagement.
Operational Excellence: Experience building scalable creative operations using systems vendors contractors and repeatable processes.
AI Fluency: Comfortable incorporating AI tools into creative workflows to improve speed quality and efficiency while maintaining authenticity.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect creative decisions to business objectives customer insights and measurable outcomes.
Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build strong partnerships across Marketing Product Engineering Legal and Executive Leadership.
Mission Alignment: Excited by using creative storytelling to build trust and advance PadSplits mission of expanding affordable housing.
Interview Process:
Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by the Hiring Manager.
If you meet eligibility requirements the next step would be a phone call with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
If warranted the next step would be a video interview with our President for one (1) hour.
If warranted the next step would be a video interview with our CEO for one (1) hour.
If warranted the next step would be a video panel interview with key stakeholders at PadSplit for two (2) hours.
The panel interview will require a candidate to work on a creative assessment where you will showcase your brand and design skills to the panel for discussion.
If warranted then we move to offer!
Compensation Benefits and Perks:
Fully remote position - we swear!
Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan and company-wide bonus opportunity
National medical dental and vision healthcare plans
Company provided life insurance policy
Optional accidental insurances FSA and DCFSA benefits
Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays
401(k) plan
Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
The opportunity to do what you love at a company that is at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis
$150000 - $200000 a year
Compensation is based on the roles scope national market benchmarks the persons expertise and experience and the impact of their contributions to our business goals.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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The Role We NeedPadSplit is entering a stage where creative is becoming a strategic growth lever not just a production function. Were looking for a Creative Director to elevate our brand lead our creative team and build a creative operation that drives trust acquisition and measurable business resul...
The Role We Need
PadSplit is entering a stage where creative is becoming a strategic growth lever not just a production function. Were looking for a Creative Director to elevate our brand lead our creative team and build a creative operation that drives trust acquisition and measurable business results while helping tell one of the most important missions in housing today. Youll have the opportunity to influence everything from national marketing campaigns and social content to the way members hosts and partners experience the PadSplit brand every day.
The Person We Are Looking For
Were looking for a creative leader who enjoys building as much as leading. This is a true player-coach role for someone who loves developing people embraces AI and modern creative tools and can balance exceptional brand storytelling with performance marketing that delivers measurable results. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable presenting creative strategy to executives coaching designers through feedback and rolling up their sleeves to help solve a creative challenge when needed.
Heres What Youll Be Doing Day-to-Day
Lead Creative Vision: Set and evolve PadSplits creative direction across every customer touchpoint while ensuring a consistent trusted brand experience.
Coach The Team: Lead mentor and develop designers contractors and agency partners while remaining hands-on in key creative initiatives.
Drive Campaigns: Partner with Marketing to create high-performing creative across paid organic lifecycle email social and emerging channels.
Build Operations: Establish scalable creative workflows production systems quality standards and resource management that enable speed without sacrificing quality.
Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Product Engineering Growth Legal and Operations to ensure creative is embedded early in major initiatives.
Strengthen Brand: Own PadSplits visual identity creative standards messaging consistency and overall brand reputation across every channel.
Leverage Customer Insights: Translate research customer feedback and performance data into stronger creative strategies and messaging.
Measure Performance: Use creative performance metrics experimentation and AI-powered workflows to continuously improve campaign effectiveness and creative output.
Heres What Youll Need to Be Successful
Creative Leadership: 8 years leading brand marketing or creative organizations with at least 3 years managing creative teams.
Player-Coach Style: Comfortable both leading others and personally contributing to creative strategy reviews and execution when needed.
Performance Mindset: Experience creating creative that not only looks exceptional but improves acquisition conversion and customer engagement.
Operational Excellence: Experience building scalable creative operations using systems vendors contractors and repeatable processes.
AI Fluency: Comfortable incorporating AI tools into creative workflows to improve speed quality and efficiency while maintaining authenticity.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect creative decisions to business objectives customer insights and measurable outcomes.
Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build strong partnerships across Marketing Product Engineering Legal and Executive Leadership.
Mission Alignment: Excited by using creative storytelling to build trust and advance PadSplits mission of expanding affordable housing.
Interview Process:
Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by the Hiring Manager.
If you meet eligibility requirements the next step would be a phone call with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
If warranted the next step would be a video interview with our President for one (1) hour.
If warranted the next step would be a video interview with our CEO for one (1) hour.
If warranted the next step would be a video panel interview with key stakeholders at PadSplit for two (2) hours.
The panel interview will require a candidate to work on a creative assessment where you will showcase your brand and design skills to the panel for discussion.
If warranted then we move to offer!
Compensation Benefits and Perks:
Fully remote position - we swear!
Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan and company-wide bonus opportunity
National medical dental and vision healthcare plans
Company provided life insurance policy
Optional accidental insurances FSA and DCFSA benefits
Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays
401(k) plan
Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
The opportunity to do what you love at a company that is at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis
$150000 - $200000 a year
Compensation is based on the roles scope national market benchmarks the persons expertise and experience and the impact of their contributions to our business goals.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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