Creative Director – Contract

Mindgrub

Creative Director at Mindgrub, guiding digital transformation through strategy and creative leadership. Focus on evolving brand experiences and integrating AI into creative operations.

Posted 5/22/2026contractRemote • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $70 - $90 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Guide the continued evolution of Mindgrub’s brand across products, campaigns, marketing, thought leadership, and client-facing experiences
Maintain creative standards across all channels and touchpoints
Lead the development of thoughtful, differentiated, and strategically aligned creative work
Facilitate presentations, workshops, reviews, and creative discussions with clients and internal stakeholders
Help strengthen client relationships through quality, consistency, storytelling, and user experience
Help define the user experience and strategy for digital products, platforms, applications, websites, and emerging interactive solutions
Lead UI designers in modern product and responsive web design, enhancing brands through digital experiences
Establish scalable design systems, interaction models, and experience standards
Partner with engineering, product strategy, and production teams to ensure creative vision carries through to shipped experiences
Provide guidance on accessibility, usability, storytelling, and customer experience best practices
Support enterprise client engagements requiring strategic creative and UX leadership
Help evolve AI-enabled creative and production capabilities throughout the organization
Introduce practical workflows that improve creative quality, operational efficiency, collaboration, and scalability
Evaluate emerging tools and technologies related to design, video, ideation, prototyping, and production
Establish thoughtful standards for responsible and effective use of AI within creative workflows
Guide teams through evolving technologies while maintaining creative judgment, originality, and brand integrity
Oversee creative direction for product, application, web, and digital experience initiatives, along with supporting campaigns, content, and brand work
Improve creative operations and production workflows to support scalability and execution quality
Mentor and support multidisciplinary creative talent spanning design, UX, content, analytics, video, and production
Help teams strengthen both creative craft and technology fluency
Identify evolving skill needs and growth opportunities
Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development efforts
Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous learning
Partner with sales, marketing, engineering, product strategy, and production teams to align strategy and execution
Translate business goals, technical requirements, and customer needs into compelling creative solutions
Participate in planning sessions, innovation initiatives, workshops, and leadership collaboration
Actively participate in in-office collaboration days and strategic planning sessions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in a Creative Director or senior creative leadership role
Proven leadership of multidisciplinary creative teams within agencies, consultancies, product companies, or technology-focused organizations
Background in digital product design, UX/UI, branding, storytelling, content systems, and creative strategy
Demonstrated success improving creative operations, production workflows, and organizational processes
Familiarity with accessibility standards and UX/UI best practices
Hands-on experience with Agile workflows and collaboration tools, including Jira and Confluence
Fluent with modern creative tools such as Figma and Miro and evolving workflows related to design, video, prototyping, and production
Ability to integrate generative AI technologies into creative, content, product design, or production workflows
Familiarity with platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Runway, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Figma AI, Canva, and related tools is preferred.
Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and client leadership skills
Ability to lead multiple workstreams and multidisciplinary teams simultaneously
Systems-thinking and problem-solving abilities
Understanding of digital ecosystems, evolving customer behaviors, and AI-driven experience trends
Portfolio demonstrating leadership across digital products, mobile and web applications, campaigns, brand systems, or experience-driven work spanning multiple mediums and teams
Strategic thinker with a collaborative, adaptive, and team-oriented approach.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Inclusivity without exception | At Mindgrub we value and encourage mutual respect and acceptance. We know we all have something to contribute. We work every day to ensure all are welcome, and that we treat all people with fairness and dignity.

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Hard Skills & Tools

digital product designUX/UI designbrandingstorytellingcreative strategyAgile workflowsaccessibility standardsAdobe Creative SuiteFigmaMiro

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationpresentationfacilitationclient leadershipsystems-thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinking