Artsy
Creative Director
New York · Director
Sponsorship not specified$175k-$220kDetected 21 days ago
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About the role
- We see brand as a core part of how people experience our product, mission, and place within the art world.
- This role will help define how both brands show up across every touchpoint.
- You will work closely across Growth Marketing, Content, Product, and Executive Leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution of Artsy and Artnet's brand and visual identity across all customer touchpoints, ensuring consistency, clarity, and creative distinction
- Develop scalable creative systems and design frameworks that enable efficient execution across channels and teams
- Partner closely with Product, Growth Marketing, and Content teams to bring the brand to life in cohesive and collaborative ways
- Lead a small creative team, setting clear direction and priorities, establishing effective ways of working, thoughtfully planning resources, and ensuring high-quality execution
- Build scalable creative systems, design frameworks, and AI-enabled workflows so the team and the wider org move with clarity, brand unity, and speed.
- Grow a small team of 1-2 brand designers while directing contractors, freelancers, and creative partners, and working closely with Product Design
- Understand and lead on the "why" not just the "what"
- Are genuinely AI-native - you're already building AI tools, automation, and modular production into how creative gets made.
- Engaging opportunities and internal programming globally, to foster new relationships and build upon our collaborative community.
- Own Our Outcomes: We are all individual owners of Artsy's shared success.
Requirements
- Craft - you have strong creative direction and cultural fluency.
- You make work that's distinctive and emotionally resonant, and you can cast and direct the photographers, designers, and collaborators who help produce it.
- You have significant experience leading brand and visual identity work for consumer-facing companies, agencies, or culturally relevant brands
- You are currently authorized to live and work in the United States
- Think in systems: you can take intuitive creative judgment and turn it into direction and frameworks others can execute against, without flattening the craft.
Nice to have
- Have experience working within the art, fashion, marketplace,editorial, media, or broader cultural landscape
- Have worked in-house after agency experience, particularly at brand-focused studios or agencies
- Have developed multiple buzz-worthy experiential or environmental campaigns with measurable outcomes, tangible delight factor, and cultural relevancy
- Prefer operating independently without frequent collaboration or cross-functional partnership.
- Primarily focus on campaign execution without interest in broader brand systems, strategy, or organizational influence.
- Begin establishing creative systems, workflows, and visual direction principles for the team
- Opportunity to reimagine the art industry while working with a talented, diverse, international team.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $175,000-$220,000 annually.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Flexible time off: our culture of trust and empowerment allows employees to take the time they need away from work while still excelling in their roles
- Including: happy hours, holiday parties, global "All Hands" meetings, "Artsy Salon" (a yearly exhibition of our team's creativity), attendance to art world events, and more
- All compensation packages include meaningful Artsy equity and competitive health benefits.
- We embrace feedback, learning, and change so that we can transform our industry, our company, and ourselves.
Company info
- Artsy and Artnet have joined forces, bringing together the art world's two most important online destinations under shared leadership and vision.
- Both brands will continue to embrace their proven strengths: Artnet as the definitive destination for trusted journalism, transactional data, auctions, and market intelligence
- Artsy as the leader in discovering and buying art through personalized recommendations, editorial storytelling, and a seamless collecting experience across web and mobile. Together, Artsy and Artnet attract over 7 million monthly visitors across 190+ countries and reach over 9 million followers across social channels.
- Both brands will continue to embrace their proven strengths: Artnet as the definitive destination for trusted journalism, transactional data, auctions, and market intelligence; Artsy as the leader in discovering and buying art through personalized recommendations, editorial storytelling, and a seamless collecting experience across web and mobile.
- Together, Artsy and Artnet attract over 7 million monthly visitors across 190+ countries and reach over 9 million followers across social channels.
- We're looking for a Creative Director to lead the evolution of Artsy and Artnet's brands and visual identities at a pivotal moment for both companies.
- This role requires a leader who can think across the full spectrum of brand strategy and building-from brand architecture and positioning to visual identity, campaign development, and activation-ensuring Artsy and Artnet's brand is expressed consistently and thoughtfully across every touchpoint.
- The Creative Director will play a central role in connecting brand strategy, visual identity, and creative execution across the business.
- You'll report to our VP of Marketing and Content and lead a small but high-impact creative function.
- This team helps define how Artsy and Artnet show up in the world - visually, strategically, and culturally.
- This role is a combination of three things:
Equal opportunity
- Using both art and science, we debate and decide swiftly and iterate on our plans as we learn.
- To make the biggest impact, we prioritize speed and clarity of action over perfection.
- Artsy is an equal opportunity employer.
- We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture.
This listing is sourced directly from Artsy's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.