Creative Director
Role & Responsibilities
- Set and drive the creative vision for systems and design operations, ensuring all work reflects strategic excellence while remaining usable, repeatable, and durable at scale
- Build scalable design systems across brand and web with modular frameworks that work across teams, platforms, and outputs
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary creative team of designers and contractors, fostering professional growth and maintaining high standards across all deliverables
- Serve as a senior creative voice in client relationships, presenting strategic concepts and building trusted partnerships with founders and executive stakeholders
- Oversee brand strategy development for deep tech clients and translate that strategy into applications, particularly visual identity and web design, which are core to what we do
- Oversee website production workflows, bridging creative vision and technical execution while collaborating closely with engineering, design, motion, strategy, and account teams
- Lead refinement and implementation phases across multiple active accounts
- Support highly technical, hands-on clients through organized, process-driven creative systems
- Translate creative direction into repeatable workflows and durable brand infrastructure
- Establish creative processes, workflows, and quality standards that scale with agency growth, protecting quality and consistency as HAUS scales its creative output
- Collaborate with agency leadership on business development, contributing to pitches, proposals, and new client acquisition
- Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies (including AI-enabled creative workflows), and cultural shifts to keep HAUS at the forefront of creative innovation
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional creative experience with at least 3 years in a leadership or director-level role
- Extensive management experience: you know how to manage junior designers and contractors and can build teams for client projects (an existing network of creatives is a major plus)
- Demonstrated experience creating and operationalizing creative systems and processes
- Strategist first: a proven ability to build brand strategy and translate it into applications, particularly visual identity and web design
- Strong background in brand systems, identity systems, and digital design systems for companies where credibility and technical accuracy matter
- Deep understanding of responsive web design, component logic, and implementation-ready documentation; you know how to build a great website and structure it to achieve client outcomes
- Exceptional typography, layout, interaction, and systems sensibility
- Ability to manage complex creative workflows across multiple stakeholders without flattening the complexity into generic startup language
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills with executive presence. The ability to sell through our creative work is a critically important skill for this role, especially in environments where the creative team needs to earn trust from highly technical clients
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, brand and systems development, and creative range across brand and web
- Strong business acumen with experience contributing to agency growth, client retention, and new business efforts
- Passion for deep tech and demonstrated ability to distill complex, technical subject matter into accessible and inspiring creative work
- Based in the US
Preferences
- Deep experience working in or directly adjacent to deep tech, hard tech, advanced infrastructure, aerospace, defense, energy, AI, robotics, biotech, climate, materials, or manufacturing
- A proven ability to immerse yourself in what a company actually does, not just translate its surface-level marketing language
- Comfort working directly with founders, engineers, scientists, researchers, and subject-matter experts
- Experience building brands for companies with long sales cycles, complex buyers, regulatory pressure, or highly specialized markets
- Agency experience, particularly with technology, B2B, or startup clients
- Background spanning multiple creative disciplines (design, web, motion, copywriting)
- Experience building and scaling creative teams and processes
- Familiarity with AI tools and emerging creative technologies
- Experience with venture-backed startups or founder-led companies
About HAUS
HAUS is a public relations and creative agency that specializes in deep tech start ups. Our mission is to support founders commercializing high-risk, high-reward technologies. We believe that the future is a story we tell ourselves and we measure success by how our work contributes to building a future we want to live in.
Salary Range
Compensation
$170,000-195,000
Location
Remote
Benefits
By joining HAUS, you’ll be an integral part of a close-knit team and your contributions will have a direct and meaningful impact on the successes of our clients, our agency, and the future of our society. We are a small but rapidly growing agency and as an early employee at HAUS you will be instrumental in helping us shape the culture and operational processes that will guide our growth for years to come.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance premiums 100% covered by HAUS for employee and family plans
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Unlimited sick days
- 401k
- Eligible for profit-sharing after one year of employment.
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Flexible career development budget
Submit Your Resume
The best candidates will have read this entire job description and apply via this portal with a short note showcasing their excellence in their craft and enthusiasm for the specific type of work we do at HAUS.
Please keep in mind that we receive an overwhelming number of submissions that are written by AI. If you keep your note human and show that you actually care about what we are doing specifically here at HAUS, this will be strongly considered along with your application.