Director of Creative - Red Ventures

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC Headquarters (Monday through Thursday) and work fully remotely on Fridays each week.

Curious how RV Home fits into Red Ventures? Click here. 

Red Ventures’ Home vertical is focused on helping consumers confidently navigate critical home decisions—from internet and utilities to home services and beyond. We combine data, design, technology, and performance marketing to create best-in-class digital experiences that simplify complex choices and drive measurable growth.

We’re seeking a Creative Director and strategic experience leader to elevate creative execution for a key, multi-faceted client relationship and one of RV’s strategic connectivity platforms. Reporting into the Senior Director of Creative on RV Home, this role sits at the intersection of agentic evolution, experience excellence, and client partnership.

You will lead high-quality creative delivery while helping shape the broader experience vision in partnership with cross-functional and executive stakeholders. You’ll bring strong strategic instincts, a sharp eye for craft, and a forward-leaning mindset toward AI—demonstrating the appetite and ability to implement agentic tools and workflows that improve creative output, team efficiency, and business impact.

You’ll serve as a senior partner to internal leadership and client stakeholders, aligning user needs, commercial goals, and technical realities.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead creative execution and help define the experience vision for a key client relationship and strategic connectivity platform
• Serve as the senior creative point of contact for internal business leaders and client stakeholders, influencing decisions and building trust
• Partner with product, strategy, and platform teams to shape experience direction grounded in user insight and business outcomes
• Ensure high-quality, cohesive creative and drive experimentation and optimization across digital touchpoints
• Balance user needs, business goals, brand standards, and platform constraints
• Lead and mentor designers, maintaining a high bar for craft and collaboration
• Oversee prioritization, resourcing, and delivery across multiple workstreams
• Partner cross-functionally to implement AI-enabled creative solutions, demonstrating the appetite and ability to apply emerging and agent-based tools
• Drive implementation of AI workflows across the team, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability

What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience in design, with leadership in creative direction and experience strategy
• Proven ability to lead creative work within large client relationships or product ecosystems, driving successful creative execution across multiple focus areas
• Proven creative leader with 3+ years of team leadership experience and a track record of mentoring and developing creative talent
• Strong communication skills, experience building buy-in and partnering with senior stakeholders to shape strategy
• Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, polished creative expertise, and business impact
• Expertise translating insights from user research into measurable creative outcomes
• Fluency in Figma prototyping, design systems, and optimization for engineering and MCP ingestion
• Experience leveraging AI in product design workflows and fluency in AI-native ways of working
• Experience collaborating and building with cross-functional leaders to scale business growth

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with high-growth digital platforms or marketplaces
• Familiarity with connectivity, telecom, utilities, or complex consumer decision journeys
• Experience applying user research methods to inform product or creative decisions
• Experience shaping paid media creative strategy

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $135,000 – $155,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com. 

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