Creative Director

Alternate locations:Jersey City NJ (New Jersey); New York NY (New York)

About New York Life Investment Management

With over $800 billion in assets under management NYLIM is aPensions & Investments Top 30 Largest Money Manager and one of the largest global asset managers serving institutional retail and insurance clients. NYLIM brings together the firms global investment teams under one unified brand combining specialized expertise with the strength and stability of New York Life.

Our platform is built on disciplined active management deep investment capabilities and a long-term partnership approach designed to deliver enduring value across market cycles and help clients navigate the next era of investing.

More powerful together we combine the agility of specialized investment teams with the scale and longevity of a leading mutual institution.

Role Summary

New York Life Investment Management is seeking a Creative Director to lead and shape how the firms visual identity and creative expression come to life across creative digital event and client-facing experiences. This role will set the standard for design quality visual storytelling brand consistency and production excellence across a global asset management business.

The Creative Director will join the team at an important moment as the firm activates a new brand system and elevates how its brand shows up for financial advisors institutions clients prospects partners and employees. This leader will translate brand standards investment expertise audience insights and business priorities into clear sophisticated and commercially relevant creative.

This is a hands-on creative leadership role for a senior design leader who can set direction elevate standards guide partners and contribute directly to high-impact work when needed. The role requires strong creative judgment practical production experience and the ability to move work from concept through final delivery with precision and care.

What Youll Do

• Lead creative direction and design execution for the firms visual identity across campaigns thought leadership product and capability marketing digital and social content executive communications events activation experiences and client-facing materials.
• Translate complex investment market and business content into compelling visual stories and design solutions that are clear differentiated accessible and relevant to client needs.
• Provide hands-on art direction design review and design support for priority work ensuring creative is visually strong strategically grounded compliant and ready for market.
• Direct integrated creative from concept through final production bringing strong production judgment across print digital presentation video event experiential and branded merchandise work.
• Shape event materials and activation experiences so the brand shows up consistently and memorably across conferences sponsorships meetings and client engagements.
• Establish and maintain design standards templates systems and creative resources that help teams execute with consistency efficiency and a high level of craft.
• Guide internal designers writers multimedia partners agencies freelancers vendors and production partners with clear actionable creative direction.
• Partner with Brand Product Marketing Segment Marketing Digital Marketing Corporate Communications Compliance and senior leaders to align creative work with business priorities and audience needs.
• Present creative concepts and rationale to stakeholders articulating how design choices support the brand the audience the channel and the desired business outcome.
• Stay current on creative design production accessibility and emerging technology practices including AI-enabled workflows and scalable content tools that can improve quality speed and impact.

What Youll Bring

• 12 years of experience in design leadership creative direction brand design advertising integrated marketing or a related field with experience leading creative teams or multidisciplinary creative work.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating elevated visual design brand identity systems art direction visual storytelling digital experiences integrated campaigns and creative execution across channels.
• Hands-on design expertise and strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud including InDesign Illustrator Photoshop Acrobat and related production tools.
• Strong production experience across print digital presentation video event experiential and branded merchandise work including file preparation vendor coordination quality control and final delivery standards.
• Deep understanding of design fundamentals typography visual hierarchy accessibility digital experience brand systems and integrated marketing best practices.
• Experience developing and maintaining design systems templates brand standards and creative resources that enable consistent execution at scale.
• Working knowledge of Figma collaborative design workflows prototyping and scaled-content platforms such as Canva or Adobe Express.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to balance creative ambition with commercial objectives regulatory requirements stakeholder input timelines budgets and practical execution needs.
• Outstanding communication presentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust and alignment with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Experience in asset management wealth management institutional investing B2B financial services professional services or another regulated industry strongly preferred.

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Job Level: LEVELMG2

Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$145000-$170000

Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individuals experience skills qualifications and job location. Additionally employees are eligible for an annual discretionary addition to base salary employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees and have unique offerings for a modern workforce including leave programs adoption assistance and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At New York Life fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.Click here to learn more about New York Lifes leadership in this space.

Recognized as one of Fortunes Worlds Most Admired Companies New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism supported by the proud that due to our mutuality we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life please visit the Careers page of .

Job Requisition ID: 94379