Creative Director

Creative Director

Salary range: $90K - $120K

Howdy Benefits - hits different via slides.

The Work We Do

We are a full-service design and marketing agency passionate about empowering our clients to make meaningful connections in the most out-of-the-box ways.

We work with sales and marketing teams at daring B2B companies to develop the most innovative and highly personalized campaigns, events and activations to get noticed.

• ABM Strategy and Execution
  • Concept Consulting
  • Interactive Web and Print Design
  • Direct Mail Campaigns
  • Touchpoint maximization
• Events and Activations
  • In-person, Hybrid, Virtual
  • Photo/Video Production
  • Presentation Strategy and Design
  • Executive Briefings and Roundtables
  • Webinars, Panels, and Interviews
  • Celebrity Talent Booking and Management
  
  

We create moments that move people – and move the needle.

The Why Behind The Work

Making people feel seen, heard, and cared for is our guiding force. This includes our clients, our client’s clients, the clients our clients want, our team, our team’s family, our team’s dogs and cats and snails (yes, that’s a pet too), our vendors, our UPS & FedEx heroes, our landlords, our print-shop owners, freelancers, our contract fulfillment crew, and our community. We create impactful connections every step of the way.

Howdy’s New Creative Director

The Creative Director will be the driving force behind our most valuable product at Howdy. They will be the lead strategist for concept development ensuring we pitch the most innovative and ridiculously personalized experiences to our clients. They will act as art director to ensure we present ourselves to our clients powerfully, consistently, and creatively across all physical and digital platforms. The ideal candidate is a big thinker and obsessive doer, confident leading a team from high concept to execution and happy to dig into the nitty-gritty right beside them.

In short, they are leading their team to create the best work so they can pitch with confidence to our clients.

Here’s where you come in…

• 7-10 years of experience working within a design or advertising agency.
• 3-5 years of experience leading a team.
• Obviously knows their way around the best tools. We use Creative Cloud, Figma, Asana, WeTransfer, but would love if you showed us some new cool toys.
• Has spent countless hours pitching, revising, and re-pitching concepts with clients.
• Sourcing, hiring, and managing creative freelancers.

• Report directly to CEO
• Sit on Leadership Team as the voice of the Creative Department
• Lead and manage the current creative team fill the gaps with kick-ass new hires.
• Build a solid network of freelance web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, motion designers, photographers, videographers.
• Foster a positive work environment that encourages personal growth and provides opportunities for professional development to hone and expand their team’s skill set.

• Always ahead of the game with design trends and industry knowledge.
• Expert in process improvement and identifying opportunities to create sustainable and scalable solutions across a diverse range of projects and platforms.
• Be the liaison between the sales and creative team.
• Empower the team to accomplish tasks for today, but be able to zoom out and build the future.

Working at Howdy

If you were to join us, we would want you to love it. We also know that it can be hard to tell from the outside looking in whether that would be the case for you. So, we put together an honest set of reasons someone would and wouldn't want to join our company. We hope it helps you make an informed decision about whether Howdy is a place you'd love to work.

• Our mission is to make people feel seen, heard, and cared for, and that starts with our employees. We genuinely, truly care about our team and are proud to offer really cool benefits that show that.
• You'll have a lot of flexibility in your role, and you will be able to help define your team and how it relates to the company structure going forward.
• We are working with some of the biggest, most-respected companies in the world and we get to create experiences that deepen their most valuable connections.
• We take every opportunity to celebrate wins, share losses, and get better.
• You enjoy the freedom that comes with being able to share and receive feedback with others. That one’s for you, Radical Candor.

• We are a young company, so if you like highly structured, steady-paced, and meticulously planned processes, this role isn't for you.
• You want a predictable, clock-in, clock-out 9-5 job.
• You like finding and poking holes more than you like filling them.
• You aren’t comfortable with a dash of chaos. We are in a changing market and our products and services have to adapt to the needs of our clients quickly.
• You are ok with just getting the job done.
  

**While we are able to accommodate fully remote positions, this role would require being in the Denver office 2-3 days a week.**