UnitedMasters | Translation

UnitedMasters | Translation

Creative Director

Brooklyn, New York · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$225kDetected 69 days ago
Brand StrategyPerformance MarketingLeadership

About the role

  • The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more.
  • We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
  • This role is based in Brooklyn, New York with four days in-office and one day remote.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end creative for Marketing, owning production across campaigns and channels including web, digital, email, social, and events
  • Develop and direct market leading social content series that create opportunities to showcase our artists and grow audience reach and engagement across UnitedMasters channels
  • Partner across Marketing (brand, growth, product, social, lifecycle) to deliver best-in-class creative that is both emotionally compelling and performance-driven
  • Champion a data-first creative approach, using insights to inform strategy, measure impact, and continuously optimize output
  • Build and scale a high-performing design org with strong processes, tools, and operations to meet evolving business needs
  • Drive cross-functional alignment with Product Design, Marketing, Artist Marketing, and Brand & Partnerships to ensure cohesive, high-quality creative across channels
  • Partner with Translation to align on overarching brand direction and unlock opportunities for breakthrough, integrated creative
  • Hire, lead, and develop a world-class creative team (in-house and freelance), aligning resourcing to both immediate priorities and long-term growth
  • Manages multiple concurrent projects with precision
  • Manages multiple concurrent projects with precision; adapts quickly as priorities shift

Requirements

  • 8+ years experience leading marketing creative, in-house and/or at an agency
  • Proven experience defining or evolving brand identity (including branding, style guide, creative toolkit, brand voice/messaging guidelines)
  • Portfolio of impactful, multi-channel campaigns required

Compensation

  • Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
  • Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
  • We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
  • The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.
  • If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
  • The salary range above is for the NY/CA.

Benefits

  • Own and elevate the UnitedMasters creative vision, ensuring brand, design, and messaging resonate deeply with independent artists and drive connection and trust

Company info

  • UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
  • The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
  • We are looking for a Creative Director to join UnitedMasters!
  • UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow.
  • UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties.
  • Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

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