Creative Director | Art Direction & Design — United States

About the JobHOME Agency is a strategy-led creative and marketing agency working with consumer brands, nonprofits, healthcare, hospitality, tourism, arts & culture, civic organizations and purpose-driven brands. We are minority and women-owned, nationally experienced, and built around the belief that the best marketing starts with trust, human connection and narrative.

EmjH is looking for a visually led, hands-on Creative Director with an art direction and design background, exceptional taste, and the ambition to help build something remarkable. This is for a creative who wants more than the next title or campaign. Someone who wants to help shape the creative reputation of a growing independent agency.

We don't want someone who can simply execute our vision. We want someone who brings a vision we haven't thought of yet.

You don't need permission to think bigger. You bring ideas to the table without waiting for a brief. You challenge assumptions, push the thinking, and initiate work that hasn't been assigned. You have the instincts of a creator, the ambition of a founder, and the maturity of a leader.



This is a working creative leadership role. You'll concept, design, art-direct, present, and guide the work, while helping other creatives do the best work of their careers. You'll partner closely with strategy and client leadership, not simply receive a brief and make it look beautiful.

What You Will DoLead exceptional creative and brand work

• Lead creative vision from concept through execution across brand identity, integrated campaigns, digital experiences, social, print, presentations, and other touchpoints.

• Personally design outstanding work. Bring strong typography, composition, color, visual storytelling, and craft to the work, with the technical ability to turn ideas into polished executions.

• Translate insight and strategy into unexpected, compelling creative ideas. Partner with strategists early, question assumptions, and contribute to the thinking, not just the output.

Art-direct and elevate the team

• Art-direct designers, photographers, filmmakers, motion specialists, developers, and freelance collaborators. Know when to make the work yourself and when to bring in the right talent.

• Coach and elevate junior creatives with clear, specific visual direction and thoughtful feedback. Set a high bar, help people grow, and own creative quality.

• Present and sell the work. Explain the idea behind the design, connect it to client objectives, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and inspire confidence in the direction.

Connect creative, digital, social and culture

• Help shape and elevate ahsE'E own brand, creative presence, original initiatives, and agency storytelling. Build creative properties, not just client campaigns.

• Stay immersed in culture, emerging creative tools, social platforms, design, and technology. Experiment intelligently with AI and new ways of making work.

Build with ownership

• Bring initiative and resourcefulness to a growing agency. Anticipate needs, propose new ideas, build a trusted creative network, and deliver excellent work within real timelines and budgets.

What We’re Looking For• 10+ years of professional experience in art direction, design, and creative development, with significant agency experience. Candidates with 12–15+ years of experience are especially welcome.

• At least 5 years in senior art direction or creative leadership roles, including demonstrated responsibility for guiding designers and multidisciplinary creative teams.

• Agency experience is required. Experience across both established, nationally recognized agencies and smaller independent or entrepreneurial creative environments is strongly preferred.

• A portfolio featuring nationally recognized brands, major institutions, or sophisticated organizations, with clear examples of original concepts and your personal creative contribution.

• Deep fluency in social and digital creative, including platform-native storytelling, integrated campaigns, short-form video, and the ability to adapt a strong idea across channels.

• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating original ideas, sophisticated visual taste, strong design fundamentals, and the ability to take work from concept to execution.

• A designer and art director at heart, with hands-on proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), Figma, and Canva.

• Experience concepting and leading brand identity and integrated creative work, with the judgment to guide digital, social, video, motion, and production partners.

• A proactive creative thinker who brings a point of view, challenges assumptions constructively, and creates opportunities rather than waiting for assignments.

• The ability to mentor designers, direct collaborators, give actionable feedback, and build trust across disciplines.

• Strong presentation and storytelling skills. You can make a compelling case for the work to colleagues and clients.

• Cultural intelligence and genuine curiosity. You're paying attention to art, museums, music, theater, entertainment, design, social behavior, and the ideas shaping what comes next.

• A collaborative, grounded leadership style. You value great work and healthy teams equally, and respect strategy, client goals, budgets, deadlines, and other people's expertise.

• An entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to build. You're energized by possibility, comfortable being hands-on, and excited to help a growing independent agency stand out.

• Bachelor's degree in design, visual communications, advertising, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

A Big PlusNot required, but we would especially love to meet candidates with:

• Strong website and digital experience design capabilities, including the ability to lead or personally design sophisticated websites and digital experiences.

• Experience directing motion, video, experiential work, or integrated productions.

• Sophisticated use of AI-powered creative tools and curiosity about emerging creative technologies.

• Industry recognition or award-winning work that demonstrates distinctive creative thinking.

• A trusted network of talented freelance designers, makers, and production collaborators.

Working StyleHOME is a remote-first, collaborative agency. This is a hands-on leadership role with meaningful ownership of creative work, close collaboration across disciplines, and the flexibility and accountability that come with working as part of a growing independent team.

You will work closely with strategy, account leadership, and creative collaborators, while owning the creative standard and contributing hands-on design work. We value initiative, clear communication, thoughtful feedback, and follow-through.

This Is Not the Right Role If• You prefer directing creative from a distance rather than getting into the design work yourself.

• You can make something look polished but struggle to explain the thinking, strategy, or story behind it.

• You need a fully built department, a large production team, or a detailed brief before you can start creating.

• You see creative leadership as giving subjective feedback rather than helping people understand how to make the work better.

• You're more interested in maintaining the status quo than challenging ideas and bringing new ones forward.

About 4seTYm48 is an independent, strategy-led creative agency partnering with mission-driven organizations and ambitious brands to build platforms that matter. Combining narrative clarity with measurable performance, EmjH helps institutions strengthen market position, inspire stakeholder confidence and create sustainable growth.

With expertise spanning brand strategy, integrated campaigns, experiential marketing, public relations, digital, social and executive positioning, the agency operates as a true extension of its clients’ leadership teams, delivering senior-level thinking with disciplined execution.

In our inaugural year, we launched the Mission Meets Action Award, a $100,000 national initiative bringing strategy, storytelling, and creative expertise to non-profits with important stories to tell, with StoryCorps as our first recipient. In year two, the program grew from 87 to 151 applications, nearly doubling its inaugural response. It's one example of how we think about EmjH: not just as an agency delivering work for clients, but as a creative company building ideas, platforms, and initiatives of its own.

We're a small, founder-led team with big creative ambitions. We believe good work starts with good people, and we're looking for someone who wants to shape the work, influence the direction of the agency, and help create what's next. If you're excited to build something meaningful, not simply inherit what's already there, you'll feel at EmjH.

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