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Creative Director
NinjaTrader. Own how NinjaTrader looks, sounds, and feels across every marketing surface .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive brand and creative experience with a strong focus on operationalizing brand identity systems and directing integrated marketing campaigns. Proven ability to lead and develop design teams while remaining hands-on in creative processes, including storytelling and performance data analysis.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Brand Campaign DevelopmentCreative DirectionTeam LeadershipAI Tool FluencyPerformance Data Analysis
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Hard Skills
Brand Identity SystemIntegrated CampaignsVideo ProductionWeb DesignNarrative DevelopmentDesign Team ManagementMarketing Design SystemQuality ControlCreative GovernancePerformance Creative
Soft Skills
StorytellingCollaborationCommunicationCreative Problem-SolvingTeam Development
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolingDesign SoftwareMarketing PlatformsVideo Editing SoftwareProject Management Tools
Industry Keywords
FintechBrokerageTradingCryptoExchangeRetail TradersRegulated EnvironmentsAgency ExperienceIn-House Leadership
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own how NinjaTrader looks, sounds, and feels across every marketing surface
- Report directly to the CMO as the senior-most creative role in marketing
- Operationalize and extend the brand identity system across marketing surfaces
- Own and scale the marketing design system across campaign, web, lifecycle, and partner surfaces
- Establish governance, documentation, review standards, and final quality control for brand expression
- Concept and direct integrated campaigns from brief to launch across video, social, paid, OOH, sponsorship, and events
- Develop campaign narratives and art-direct video production
- Own marketing web and landing page design for acquisition and conversion
- Direct lifecycle and product marketing creative
- Remain hands-on with hero projects, including concepting, design, writing direction, and editing
- Hire, manage, and develop an in-house design team
- Direct agencies, production partners, and freelancers
- Build operating rhythms for briefs, reviews, and handoffs
- Partner with Product Design, performance marketing, and compliance
- Grow broader creative ownership over time, including copy and video production
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of brand and creative experience
- 2+ years leading a team as an ACD, CD, or design lead
- Portfolio built on systems, not one-offs
- Storytelling range, including narrative development
- Experience across brand campaign work and performance creative
- Desire and ability to remain hands-on in the work
- Fluency with AI tooling in the creative process
- Track record of managing designers and directing external agencies
- Comfort with performance data
- Bonus: fintech, brokerage, trading, crypto, or exchange experience, or genuine curiosity about markets and retail traders
- Bonus: experience operationalizing an inherited identity system
- Bonus: experience running a marketing design system alongside a separately owned product design system
- Bonus: experience in constrained or regulated environments
- Bonus: practicing photography, film, writing, or illustration outside the day job
- Bonus: agency background plus in-house leadership experience
Benefits
Comp & perks- Annual target bonus of 15%
- 401K plan with company match up to 3.5% of employee contributions
- 23 days of paid time off per year
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays
- Generous PTO
- 5 conditional holidays annually
- 1 service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
- Hybrid work schedule for Chicago-based employees
- Professional development and employee recognition initiatives