Newsela

Newsela

Creative Director (Remote, US)

Remote - US · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
PhotoshopIllustratorAdobe Creative SuiteCanvaAfter EffectsInDesignAccessibilityBrand StrategyPremiere ProLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, you will define and evolve Newsela's creative vision across our portfolio of brands, ensuring every customer touchpoint reflects a cohesive, differentiated, and high-impact brand experience.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evolve scalable visual systems, design frameworks, and brand standards that enable consistency while allowing each brand to maintain its unique identity.
  • Lead ongoing brand governance by reviewing and elevating creative assets across brands to ensure consistency, quality, accessibility, and alignment with Newsela's brand standards
  • Establish and uphold creative standards that drive excellence across digital, print, motion, web, and campaign creative.
  • Partner with Marketing leadership to align creative priorities and investments with business objectives and measurable business outcomes.
  • Partner cross-functionally to deliver integrated creative solutions that advance business objectives and strengthen customer engagement.
  • Serve as the creative lead throughout the lifecycle of strategic initiatives, ensuring exceptional quality, consistency, and business impact.
  • You will establish the operating model that enables the Creative function to scale, ensuring the team delivers exceptional work with speed, consistency, and efficiency.
  • Establish and continuously optimize the creative operating model, including intake, prioritization, resource planning, production timelines, and quality standards.
  • Develop scalable workflows, governance, and creative review processes that improve collaboration across Marketing and cross-functional partners.
  • Partner with Marketing leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to shape creative strategy and campaign direction from concept through execution.

Requirements

  • A stunning portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft across digital, print, and multi-channel brand campaigns, showcasing an ability to handle complex, multi-product ecosystems.

Skills

  • Expert-level mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere/After Effects a plus).
  • Proficiency in Canva (for building scalable

Benefits

  • Define and evolve Newsela's creative vision and visual identity across Newsela's portfolio of brands, ensuring a cohesive, differentiated, and high-impact customer experience.
  • Lead the creative vision and execution for Newsela's highest-priority marketing campaigns, digital platforms, corporate initiatives, and executive communications.
  • Establish clear creative briefs, quality standards, and performance expectations for external partners, ensuring work consistently reflects Newsela's brand and creative vision.

Company info

  • We are looking for a Creative Director (Director, Creative) to join our Marketing team.

This listing is sourced directly from Newsela's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.