Fueled - Creative Director

• Own the creative and strategic vision across content and publishing projects, ensuring design decisions are grounded in user needs, business objectives, and exceptional visual craft. • Lead and elevate the visual expression of client brands across digital experiences, ensuring a distinctive, high-craft aesthetic that differentiates our work in the market. • Partner directly with clients to understand their goals, co-create solutions, and confidently present work in pitches and reviews. • Facilitate collaborative workshops and guide design processes that turn insights and feedback into refined, high-impact outcomes. • Unite cross-functional teams (UX, engineering, design, and content strategy) with strong communication and adaptability in a fast-paced, remote agency environment. • Push creative boundaries through thoughtful experimentation and innovative editorial and digital storytelling. • Serve as the most senior leader of Fueled's Visual and User Experience Design functions within its Content and Digital Publishing-focused practice area, responsible for both elevation of craft and day-to-day agency business needs like staffing and hiring. • Guide a collaborative design team that works alongside cross-functional peers to successfully launch dozens of content-driven experiences each year that drive measurable growth in engagement, conversions, or revenue. • Champion a standard of creativity and quality excellence that positions Fueled as a design-forward agency, producing work that earns award recognition, press features, and standout client testimonials. • Contribute to new business growth by shaping creative direction in pitches, increasing win rates and expanding long-term client partnerships. • Advance scalable design systems and creative processes that improve team efficiency and reduce rework. • Lead and mentor designers to raise the bar on craft, strengthen team culture, and develop future creative leaders. • You have 8+ years in product design with a portfolio that demonstrates range — from UX strategy and research synthesis to visually exceptional, high-craft execution. • You have experience designing enterprise-level digital products in content publishing, e-commerce, or SaaS environments. • You are fluent across visual design, UX, and research, and lead with strong creative instinct while maintaining an uncompromising eye for detail. • You have a strong perspective on the processes, systems, and philosophies that help differentiate "good" visual and UX design work from "great" in an agency environment. • You have experience building modular design systems and working within CMS platforms such as WordPress, Sanity, or Webflow. • You mentor and grow designers at all levels, elevating both individual capability and overall team quality. • You bring additional creative range — illustration, motion design, branding/identity, or print experience is a plus. • You have experience building and scaling visual design and UX teams in an agency environment: defining team culture, establishing and standardizing best practices, and implementing systems that improve the consistency and scalability of creative output. • You have a track record of helping elevate an agency's positioning as a premium design partner, whether through collaboration with marketing on brand and positioning, direct thought leadership, or both.