Creative Lead – Design

About The Job

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

About The Role

Salesforce continues to grow at scale – across markets, audiences, and moments that matter most. As that growth accelerates, it is critical that our most important initiatives benefit from strong creative leadership, clear brand stewardship, and flexible capacity that can meet moments of peak demand without sacrificing quality.

What You Will Do

• Provide additional conceptual and strategic creative leadership on our highest-value initiatives, with a primary focus on brand, events and campaigns
• Partner with Creative leadership and Operations to define processes and ways of working that ensure Flex Creative is engaged on high-impact work while remaining flexible enough to scale during key moments
• Partner with Global Design Production leadership and Operations to understand planning, intake, and volume of work, identifying project opportunities that Flex Creative should take on
• Hire, onboard, and manage a team of art directors, designers, and copywriters to drive scale, efficiency, and creative excellence
• Act as a senior creative leader in-region, providing mentorship, guidance, and perspective to local brand and creative teams
• When needed, serve as a local voice for brand and creative, supporting messaging alignment and creative continuity as work is pulled through regionally
• Help solve for creative scale and influence across the organization, ensuring the right creative leadership is applied to the right moments
• Act as a creative and brand ambassador for local brand and creative teams, providing creative direction/guidance, narrative consistency, and perspective to ensure consistent, best-in-class output

Experience Required

• BA or BFA in Art/Design
• Extraordinary design skills
• World-class portfolio of work
• Outstanding presentation skills and proven ability to produce and pitch world-class strategic presentations to all levels of an organization
• 12+ years experience in art direction and design in a creative agency or client-side group; experience working with B2B / technology brands is a plus
• 8+ years experience leading and managing a team in a creative agency or internal creative group; global experience is a plus
• 8+ years experience in marketing work with a rich portfolio including digital, print, interactive, website/mobile design and video
• Hands-on expertise in developing creative solutions and campaigns across all mediums: advertising, film, websites, mobile and graphic design, Corporate ID, interactive, social campaigns, content marketing and events
• Expert knowledge of creative process and all digital creative software tools; AI experience and knowledge is a plus