Creative Director

Who We Are Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring for a Creative Director to join the Marketing department.

The Creative Director leads Robert Half's Brand Design Studio and is responsible for elevating the strategic thinking, concept development, visual identity system, design quality, and creative execution of Robert Half's marketing, communications, and brand experiences. This role translates brand and marketing strategies into compelling, effective creative work across channels while ensuring the studio continues to deliver high-quality creative services, production, and execution at scale.

The Creative Director owns the evolution, governance, implementation, and adoption of Robert Half's visual identity system in close partnership with Brand Marketing. This role leads a multidisciplinary creative team and partners with Brand Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Content Marketing, Field Marketing, Performance Marketing, Corporate Communications, Corporate Services, and external creative agencies to develop creative concepts, design systems, campaign assets, and production solutions that are strategically aligned, visually distinctive, and operationally achievable.

The Creative Director serves as the senior internal creative leader for major creative initiatives, including agency-led work when appropriate, ensuring creative output reflects Robert Half standards, supports business objectives, improves stakeholder confidence, and raises the overall creative maturity of the organization.

What You'll Do Creative Direction, Concept Development & Visual Identity Leadership

• Establish and communicate the creative vision for Robert Half marketing, communications, and brand experiences, ensuring creative work balances strategic thinking with strong execution.
• Lead or guide development of creative concepts, campaign ideas, visual approaches, and design solutions that bring brand and marketing strategies to life across channels and touchpoints.
• Own the evolution, governance, implementation, and adoption of Robert Half's visual identity system in close partnership with Brand Marketing.
• Define and maintain design standards, visual frameworks, creative guidelines, and best practices that ensure consistency, flexibility, and scalability across customer and employee touchpoints.
• Lead the translation of brand strategy, messaging, and audience insights into distinctive visual expression across campaigns, content, communications, digital experiences, presentations, events, and customer-facing materials.
• Review and direct creative work to ensure high standards of quality, consistency, audience relevance, craftsmanship, effectiveness, and brand integrity.
• Serve as Robert Half's senior internal creative leader during major agency-led creative initiatives, ensuring work aligns with visual identity standards, business objectives, audience needs, and creative expectations.

Marketing Partnership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Brand Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Content Marketing, Field Marketing, Performance Marketing, Corporate Communications, Corporate Services, and business stakeholders to support marketing and communications objectives.
• Translate campaign briefs, messaging inputs, and audience insights into creative strategies, concepts, design approaches, production plans, and executional deliverables.
• Serve as a strategic creative advisor throughout campaign planning, creative development, agency collaboration, and production planning.
• Guide creative collaboration with external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and internal teams, ensuring the right work is produced by the right resource model.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization to improve collaboration, alignment, stakeholder confidence, and creative outcomes.
• Partner with teams most impacted by Brand Design Studio work, including UX, Media Design Studio, marketing channel teams, Communications, and Corporate Services, to ensure creative solutions are effective, feasible, and consistent.

Creative Operations, Production Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of designers, art directors, production specialists, and creative professionals responsible for creative services delivery across Robert Half.
• Ensure the Brand Design Studio delivers high-quality creative production, visual design, digital, presentation, event, campaign, and internal creative assets efficiently and consistently.
• Partner with the PMO leader to define intake, prioritization, briefing, review, production, workflow, and delivery standards that improve speed, quality, efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
• Manage creative resources, external agencies, freelancers, vendors, production partners, and creative technology investments as needed to support business priorities.
• Build creative capabilities in areas such as concept development, design systems, digital experiences, motion design, AI-enabled creativity, presentation design, and emerging technologies.
• Foster a high-performance creative culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, constructive critique, curiosity, innovation, production excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and inspire the team to elevate creative thinking, design quality, storytelling, execution standards, and overall creative output.
• Skilled in providing timely feedback, addressing concerns, and managing difficult conversations in a timely manner with emotional intelligence, fairness and consistency, both verbally and in writing.

Success Measures

• Improved creative quality, concept development, visual storytelling, and design craftsmanship.
• Consistent adoption and application of Robert Half visual identity standards across major touchpoints.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and confidence in creative partnership, quality, and delivery.
• Effective creative support for integrated marketing, content marketing, communications, events, internal initiatives, and digital experiences.
• On-time delivery, improved project cycle time, resource utilization, and production efficiency.
• Successful collaboration with external agencies, freelancers, vendors, and production partners when appropriate.
• Growth in team capability, employee engagement, talent development, and creative maturity.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Fine Arts, Marketing, or related discipline required.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in creative, design, advertising, creative services, or brand-related roles.
• 7+ years leading creative teams, agencies, studios, or design organizations.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams responsible for both concept development and production delivery.
• Experience owning or leading visual identity systems, design standards, design systems, or creative guidelines.
• Experience developing integrated creative concepts and production-ready creative across digital, social, web, presentation, event, campaign, video, motion, and print channels.
• Experience partnering with brand, marketing, communications, content, digital, UX, production, agency, and business stakeholders.
• B2B, professional services, consulting, technology, staffing, or related experience preferred.

Competencies / Abilities

• Creative direction.
• Creative concept development.
• Visual identity system ownership.
• Design systems leadership.
• Art direction and visual storytelling.
• Creative services production leadership.
• Integrated campaign concepting and execution.
• Creative operations and resource management.
• Agency, freelance, vendor, and production partner management.
• Team leadership, coaching, and talent development.
• Creative innovation, AI-enabled creativity, and emerging creative technologies.
• Strategic thinking, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Interpersonal Skills

• Executive presence and strong presentation skills.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to articulate and defend creative direction, design rationale, and production recommendations.
• Ability to provide constructive creative feedback and lead productive critique processes.
• Strong relationship building across marketing, communications, creative, digital, agency, vendor, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to coach, inspire, and raise expectations for creative thinking and execution quality.

Minimum Required Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge of modern design tools and creative platforms.
• Expertise in visual identity systems, design systems, brand governance, and creative guidelines.
• Experience with digital, social, web, presentation, event, motion, video, and print design workflows.
• Understanding of creative production, photography, video, motion, and agency production processes.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled creative tools and workflows.
• Microsoft Office Suite and Copilot proficiency.

The typical annual salary range for this position is shown below and is negotiable depending upon experience and location. The position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus. $176,000.00 - $230,000.00 We offer exceptional earning potential and a competitive benefits package, including group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental), FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks, and short/long term disability. Robert Half provides paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of Choice Time Off (CTO) our people receive varies based on their years of service and is pro-rated based on the hours worked per week. A new hire earns up to 17 days of CTO per calendar year. Our people also receive up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year. We also offer the opportunity to contribute to our company 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible), with an employer match of 100% on the first 3% of your contributions for eligible employees. Learn more at https://roberthalfbenefits.com.

Robert Half Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

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