Creative Director

Role Overview

Nerdio is looking for a visionary Creative Director to lead and elevate its brand identity, visual storytelling, and creative output across all channels. This is a senior leadership role combining bold creative instincts with strategic business acumen and a passion for using AI to scale brand expression.

What You’ll Do

Brand Leadership

• Own and evolve Nerdio’s brand identity, visual language, voice, and design system across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Serve as the ultimate creative authority to set the creative bar and ensure consistency, quality, and impact.
• Partner with the Senior Director of Brand and Communications and executive leadership to translate business strategy into creative vision.

Team & Agency Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow an in-house creative team of designers.
• Manage external agencies, freelancers, and production vendors to scale creative output efficiently.
• Build a collaborative, feedback-rich culture that supports bold ideas and rapid iteration.

Creative Execution

• Lead ideation and execution for high-impact campaigns across:
  • digital advertising, product marketing, events, video, social media, and partner co-marketing
• Oversee design of website experiences, landing pages, and digital campaigns to drive awareness and conversion.
• Lead creative concept development for flagship events (e.g., NerdioCon and partner summits) and Microsoft-aligned initiatives.
• Champion video and motion design for brand and product storytelling.
• Use AI tools to maintain brand standards, drive distinctiveness, and expand creative possibilities.
• Develop templates that enable employees to create on-brand assets.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Partner Marketing, and Sales to align creative with go-to-market priorities.
• Work with Product and UX teams to ensure alignment across user and product experiences (role description truncates after this point in the provided text).