As Sr. Lead, Creative, you won’t just execute creative—you’ll own it. This role is for a visionary leader who thrives at the intersection of brand, performance, and storytelling. You’ll be accountable for setting the creative bar, leading cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring every piece of creative content delivers against our brand promise and business goals.

You'll lead a lean but high-impact external creative team—including designers, motion artists, and editors—while partnering closely with marketing, product, and executive leadership. From big idea campaigns to rapid-fire content, you’ll take full ownership of our creative strategy and execution across every touchpoint.

What You’ll Own:

• Creative Vision & Execution: Set and drive the creative direction across all marketing initiatives—from paid social and TV/video to packaging and direct mail.
• Team Leadership: Guide and mentor a distributed creative team (external partners and freelancers), instilling a culture of ownership, innovation, and creative excellence.
• Copy & Messaging: Own all brand voice and messaging with hands-on copywriting, ensuring clarity, consistency, and emotional impact.
• Cross-Functional Campaigns: Partner with marketing, product, and leadership to develop and deliver integrated campaigns that drive growth, engagement, and brand equity.
• Brand Stewardship: Protect and evolve our brand identity, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints and channels.
• Creative Strategy & Testing: Deliver on our creative testing agenda—experiment, learn, and iterate.
• External Partnerships: Manage vendor relationships and production resources in partnership with Integrated Marketing.
• Trendspotting & Innovation: Stay ahead of cultural shifts, platform changes, and creative tech (including AI) to keep our brand at the forefront.
• Budget Ownership: Oversee creative budgets and resource allocation, making smart, efficient decisions to maximize impact.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Present and pitch creative concepts to leadership with confidence and clarity.
• Hands-On Execution: Be ready to roll up your sleeves—this is a startup environment where agility, speed, and direct contribution matter.

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years in creative leadership roles within branding or marketing environments.
• A proven record of delivering high-performing, brand-building creative.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in design, copy, video, or multimedia storytelling.
• Experience managing and inspiring creative teams—both in-house and freelance.
• Deep fluency in digital marketing, social media, and emerging creative platforms.
• Strategic thinking with sharp execution skills—and a bias for action.
• Strong communication, presentation, and leadership capabilities.
• Ability to tie creative work to business outcomes and KPIs.
• Experience in startup or high-growth environments, with a comfort level working with limited resources.
• Passion for creativity, storytelling, and building brands that matter.

What you’ll get from us:

• Our people: If you thrive in an inclusive, innovative, and fast-paced organization, look no further! You will get to work alongside some of the brightest minds - Join a genuinely fun and supportive workplace where we keep our employees consistently engaged through internal communication and corporate events
• Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities. You will receive time off to give back as well.
• Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.