Deputy Director, Global Brand Experience
Job Location:
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofitfighting poverty disease and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere regardless of identity or circumstances should have the chance to live healthy productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve.We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage with no premiums generous paid time off paid family leave foundation-paid retirement contribution regional holidays and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.As a workplace were committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The Communications Division led by the Chief Communications Officer oversees the foundations global communications strategy. The division brings together internal and external communications to advance the foundations mission to create a more equitable world.This role sits within the Global Content & Campaigns team which leads the foundations public engagement strategy by bringing together brand campaigns creative production storytelling channels and audience engagement to build trust in the foundation and inspire more people to care about our mission. Working closely with regional communications teams and partners around the world the team ensures the foundations communications are audience-centered creatively ambitious and grounded in evidence continually testing and evolving approaches that strengthen public trust and engagement.
Your Role
The Deputy Director Global Brand Experience is responsible for how Gates Foundation brand and stories are expressed to external audiences.
Reporting to the Director of Content & Campaigns this role leads the Foundations global brand creative direction visual identity storytelling ecosystem and creative productionensuring every public interaction with the Foundation builds trust inspires care and reinforces our belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to live a healthy life and reach their full potential.
The Deputy Director leads a multidisciplinary creative studio bringing together creative producers story developer visual and experiential designers and audience engagement specialists who design produce and activate the Foundations public-facing stories exhibits and experiences. The role is responsible for setting the teams creative vision growing its capabilities and ensuring every discipline works together to create cohesive audience-centered experiences that connect people emotionally to the Foundations mission.
The Deputy Director serves as both a strategic brand leader and the Communications Divisions senior creative leadersetting the creative vision for the Foundations public brand elevating design excellence and ensuring every experience reflects the highest standards of craft.
Working across regional communications campaigns channels advocacy leadership communications and external partners this role helps translate the Foundations mission into experiences that people remember trust and want to share.
This role is anticipated to travel up to 25% domestic and international
What Youll Do
Lead Creative Direction & Design Excellence
Serve as the Communications Divisions senior creative leader establishing a compelling creative vision for how the Foundations brand is expressed across every audience touchpoint.
Provide executive creative direction across campaigns storytelling digital experiences exhibitions activations environmental design and emerging brand experiences.
Champion exceptional visual craft and design quality ensuring all work reflects world-class standards of creativity accessibility and audience-centered design.
Steward the Foundations visual identity and creative expression while encouraging thoughtful innovation that keeps the brand culturally relevant.
Build Creative Excellence & Organizational Capability
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of creative producers story developers and visual and experiential designers responsible for creating and delivering world-class creative work across the Foundations stories brand experiences exhibitions activations and communications.
Lead creative excellence across the full creative lifecyclefrom ideation and creative development through design production and executionensuring every output reflects exceptional strategic thinking craft audience relevance and brand quality.
Build long-term internal creative capability by strengthening creative leadership design judgment storytelling production expertise and multidisciplinary collaboration across the team.
Foster a culture of creative excellence through rigorous critique continuous learning experimentation and operating models that enable consistently outstanding creative work.
Champion the Global Brand Strategy
Steward the Foundations brand positioning creative platform audience strategy and brand architecture across all public communications.
Lead the continued evolution and implementation of the Gates Foundations global brand strategy to build trust increase care for our mission and strengthen public understanding of who we are and why we do our work.
Ensure all brand expression reflects the Foundations values of collaboration optimism innovation rigor and inclusion while remaining locally relevant across markets.
Serve as the principal advisor to Communications Division leadership on brand strategy governance and evolution.
Lead Brand Systems & Visual Design
Lead the ongoing evolution of the Foundations visual design system across physical environmental graphic motion digital and experiential applications.
Ensure consistent high-quality implementation of brand standards while enabling regional adaptation and creative flexibility.
Oversee development of scalable design systems templates creative resources and brand governance that enable excellence across the Communications Division.
Guide the evolution of photography illustration typography motion environmental graphics exhibitions and visual storytelling standards.
Lead Story Development & Creative Production
Lead the strategy prioritization and production of creative content supporting integrated campaigns owned channels leadership communications regional teams and brand initiatives.
Champion and support your team in identifying human-centered stories capable of supporting multiple campaigns and channels.
Oversee production of creative content across video photography editorial design social content interactive experiences and emerging media.
Ensure creative investments maximize long-term value through scalable production cross-market adaptation and reusable storytelling assets.
Lead Brand Experiences & Public Engagement
Lead strategy creative direction and production for physical and digital brand experiences installations activations including the the Gates Foundations Discovery Center.
Ensure audience experiences are designed holistically across physical digital and social channels.
Drive innovation in how the Foundation participates in culture public conversations and major moments.
Drive Audience-Centered Innovation
Apply audience insights behavioral research and performance data to improve creative strategy and audience engagement.
Identify emerging cultural trends creators technologies and platforms that create new opportunities to reach broader audiences.
Champion experimentation with new storytelling formats creator partnerships experiential models and digital products
Your Experience
12 years leading brand creative and design within global nonprofits media companies agencies technology firms consumer brands or mission-driven organizations.
Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary creative teams spanning brand strategy visual design storytelling creative production experiential design and content development.
Deep expertise in brand visual systems creative governance and design leadership across digital physical environmental and experiential applications.
Exceptional creative judgment with the ability to evaluate critique and elevate design work across multiple disciplines.
Experience establishing creative vision while empowering teams and partners to deliver outstanding work.
Proven ability to mentor and grow designers storytellers producers and creative leaders.
Experience commissioning directing and managing world-class creative agencies design consultancies exhibit designers filmmakers photographers and other specialist partners.
Experience planning and managing a complex creative budget.
Strong understanding of audience-centered design behavioral insights storytelling and experience design.
Demonstrated success leading large cross-functional initiatives within highly matrixed global organizations.
Passion for building brands that create emotional connection strengthen trust and inspire public engagement around important social issues.
Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (eg: H-1B O-1 L-1 E OPT STEM-OPT CPT TN J-1 etc.).
The salary range for this role is $212800 to $329800 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C. where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $234000 to $362800 USD. As a mission-driven organization we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidates job-related skills experience and expertise as evaluated during the interview process.
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Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
Were committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview processsuch as an ASL interpreter alternative interview format or physical accessibility supportwere happy to help. Please contact with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.
Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity equity and inclusion of voices ideas and approaches and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race color age religion pregnancy sex sexual orientation disability gender identity gender expression national origin genetic information veteran status marital status and prior protected activity.
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