Director, Creative Studio
$210k - $225k USD
Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.
Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
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We’re hiring a Director, Creative Studio to lead Culture Amp’s in-house creative studio, the team responsible for how our brand shows up everywhere: campaigns, content, product launches, events, and everything in between. This is the defining marketing creative leadership role at the company.
As the Director, Creative Studio you’ll set the visual and verbal direction for one of the most purposeful brands in HR technology. You’ll lead a studio that doesn’t just execute requests, rather it shapes how the world understands what Culture Amp is and why it matters. The studio is the engine behind our brand, and you’ll be the one driving it forward.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing creative team, empowering both managers and individual contributors to do their best work
- Own the Culture Amp brand system and visual identity guidelines, ensuring cohesion, creativity, and consistent global application
- Drive creative strategy across integrated campaigns spanning product launches, thought leadership, customer marketing and more.
- Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Product to deliver brand experiences that drive measurable impact
- Advocate for brand and design as strategic business drivers, connecting creative excellence to pipeline and business outcomes
- Develop and retain top creative talent, fostering a culture of creativity, accountability, and growth
What we're looking for
- Ideally 10+ years of experience in brand design, including 5+ years leading and scaling creative teams in high-growth, cross-functional environments
- Proven track record of shaping and evolving high-profile brand systems at scale
- Exceptional creative direction skills with a strong portfolio of system-level, strategic brand work
- Deep expertise in brand strategy, identity systems, and translating design across diverse environments
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and aligning senior stakeholders around a shared creative vision
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, you can influence and align leaders and teams at all levels
- Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity, and organizational change
- Systems thinker, able to scale creative through documentation, process, and tooling without losing the craft
- A sharp eye for detail, consistency, and what good actually looks like
How we work
We're distributed across Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Melbourne. You'll report to the VP of Corporate Marketing and collaborate across the marketing organization. We value clear, direct communication over corporate jargon. We ship iteratively rather than waiting for perfection. We protect creative quality while staying grounded in business impact.
For this role, the estimated base salary range is listed below. In addition to base salary, your compensation package will include additional components such as equity and benefits. For sales roles, your package may also include sales commission
The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual skills, capabilities and experience, objectively assessed during the interview process. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.
We believe in fair & equitable pay at Culture Amp, and therefore, we build pay equity into all our programs in addition to conducting annual pay equity audits.
Base Salary Range (US)
$210,000—$225,000 USD
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.
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