Jobs · Design · California

Creative Director

Tiberius Aerospace · Newport Beach, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteDesign$150k–$175k/yrFull-time

About Tiberius Aerospace

Tiberius Aerospace is a cutting-edge Aerospace and Defense company committed to delivering innovative, secure, and compliant solutions for our customers. We specialize in mission-critical technology services for government and private sector customers, ensuring excellence in aerospace systems design, performance, and compliance.

Position Overview

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a Creative Director to define how the company’s ambition shows up in the world. This is not a role for someone who simply manages an existing brand system. You will help build the system. You will work closely with company leadership, Marketing and Communications, engineering, and product teams to establish the creative language of Tiberius across everything we put into the world — from major product launches and films to our website, social channels, photography, technical visualisation, events, presentations, and physical environments.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and evolve the visual language of Tiberius across typography, graphic systems, imagery, motion, photography, film, digital experiences, and physical applications
  • Develop original creative concepts for product launches, campaigns, company announcements, recruiting, events, and major company moments
  • Work directly with engineers and product teams to translate complex systems into clear, compelling visual stories without sacrificing technical credibility
  • Shape the creative direction of Tiberius.com and establish a recognisable visual language across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging channels
  • Lead photography, film, animation, technical visualisation, and content production from concept through final delivery
  • Find compelling ways to document the engineering process — from laboratories and manufacturing floors to live-fire testing and field demonstrations
  • Partner directly with founders, executives, and company leadership on the highest-visibility moments for Tiberius
  • Build scalable creative systems, templates, standards, and frameworks that allow the company to move quickly without diluting the brand
  • Determine which capabilities should be built internally, which should be delivered through world-class external partners, and what the Tiberius creative organization should become over time
  • Serve as the final creative filter for how Tiberius presents itself and raise the quality bar across all outward-facing work

Core Responsibilities

  • Brand & Visual Identity:
    • Define and continuously evolve a distinctive visual identity for Tiberius
    • Establish clear standards across typography, layout, colour, image treatment, iconography, motion, and graphic systems
    • Ensure Tiberius is recognisable through its creative expression, not only its logo
  • Product & Technology Storytelling:
    • Partner with engineering and product teams to understand what is actually being built
    • Translate sophisticated aerospace, defence, software, manufacturing, and weapons-system concepts into credible and compelling visual narratives
    • Develop standards for product renders, diagrams, technical illustrations, demonstrations, explainer content, and launch materials
  • Film, Photography & Motion:
    • Direct the visual documentation of Tiberius products, people, manufacturing, testing, and operational environments
    • Lead photographers, filmmakers, production companies, animators, and other creative partners from initial concept through final delivery
    • Establish a distinctive and repeatable approach to photography, cinematic storytelling, motion design, and technical visualisation
  • Digital Expression:
    • Shape the creative direction of Tiberius.com and ensure the site reflects the company’s technical ambition, credibility, and point of view
    • Create visual standards for social and digital channels, including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging platforms
    • Create an integrated digital expression that feels like one company rather than a collection of disconnected posts and assets
    • Partner with Communications and Marketing to ensure creative work supports narrative, launches, recruiting, and business priorities
  • Strategic Company Moments:
    • Lead the creative direction for major company moments, including: New weapons and platforms, Product launches and demonstrations, Flight and live-fire testing, Government contracts, Manufacturing milestones, International expansion, Partnerships, Software and GRAIL announcements, Capital events, Recruiting campaigns, Founder communications and high-profile presentations
    • Ensure each moment is creatively distinct, strategically aligned, and executed to a high standard
    • Build the Function
      • Build a scalable creative capability for a rapidly growing aerospace and defence company
      • Develop creative processes, production standards, review mechanisms, templates, and operating rhythms
      • Manage agency, studio, freelance, production, and vendor relationships where appropriate
      • Help shape the future internal creative team, including its structure, capabilities, and hiring priorities
      • Protect quality while maintaining the speed and urgency required by the business

    What You’ll Bring

    • Significant experience in brand design, creative direction, art direction, or multidisciplinary design within an exceptional technology company, design studio, creative agency, or similarly demanding environment
    • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative work across multiple mediums, including brand identity, digital, campaigns, product storytelling, film, photography, motion, or environmental design
    • Demonstrated experience defining or substantially evolving a brand — not simply working within an established identity
    • Exceptional judgment in typography, composition, photography, motion, visual storytelling, and creative restraint
    • Strong ability to communicate creative decisions clearly to founders, executives, engineers, and external collaborators
    • Comfort operating with incomplete information, shifting priorities, and imperfect briefs
    • A high-ownership mindset and a genuine interest in building rather than inheriting

    Preferred Experience

    • In aerospace, defence, industrial technology, automotive, hardware, architecture, robotics, advanced manufacturing, or another technically sophisticated field
    • Experience creating visual storytelling around physical products, technical systems, testing environments, or mission-critical technology
    • Experience directing technical renders, 3D visualisation, product photography, industrial photography, animation, or documentary-style film
    • Experience building or scaling an in-house creative function
    • Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives
    • Fluency in modern creative workflows and tools, including Figma and relevant Adobe Creative Cloud applications
    • Experience managing complex, high-visibility launches or campaigns

    How We Support You

    • Competitive base salary
    • Equity participation
    • Flexible PTO plus 9 bank holidays, 48 hours sick leave, and 5 days bereavement leave
    • Parental leave (2 weeks)
    • Best-in-class health insurance — medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of premiums paid for by Tiberius
    • STD, LTD, Life and AD&D insurance
    • 401(k)
    • Equal Opportunity Employer

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