Creative Director

beehiiv is where the world's best newsletters, podcasts, and digital products are built, grown, and distributed. The platform combines email, podcast hosting, websites, community, and digital products — connected to a single audience and a single set of tools to publish, grow, and monetize. As it approaches $50M in annualized revenue and continues to grow almost 100% year over year, beehiiv is positioned for its next stage of hypergrowth.

The Role

beehiiv is hiring a Creative Director to help lead its brand. You'll own beehiiv's story, personality, and how it shows up end to end: from the concept, to the brief, to the final cut. That covers brand campaigns, larger creator and media partnerships, content franchises, and the tentpole moments beehiiv wants to own every year.

You'll originate ideas yourself, lead a small creative team, and bring in directors, agencies, and freelancers when they add something the team doesn't have. You'll pitch the biggest bets yourself and build alignment to make them happen. In year one, expect roughly 80% leading the highest-priority campaigns and brand moments and 20% building the function around them.

Ideally, You'll Have

• 8+ years leading creative for ambitious brands, ideally in consumer SaaS or at a top agency.
• A standout portfolio of integrated campaigns, brand platforms, and cultural moments that sparked conversation.
• Fluency across art direction, copy, design, motion, and photography.
• A proven track record of leading major productions end to end, from selecting directors and partners to running shoots and delivering across video, photography, social, and experiential.
• Sharp social-first instincts and an understanding of what breaks through in-feed.
• Comfort with data, using experimentation and funnel metrics to sharpen ideas.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills.
• The ability to think big and move fast, building a brand over years while still shipping Friday's paid creative.
• A passion for mentoring creative talent and building a world-class team.

What You'll Be Responsible For

Set the vision and lead the campaigns

• Own the creative vision behind beehiiv's biggest campaigns across brand, product, partnerships, and cultural moments.
• Turn business goals into bold creative briefs, then lead ideas from initial spark to launch.
• Create integrated campaigns across social, digital, out-of-home, experiential, partnerships, and emerging formats.
• Create brand activations and stunts that bring beehiiv's mission of creator ownership to life.
• Build iconic tentpole moments and repeatable content franchises.

Lead the team and the production

• Ensure the quality of execution by the in-house creative team and partners.
• Lead production from start to finish, assembling top-tier directors, photographers, animators, and agency partners.
• Champion bold creative bets and sell ambitious ideas to executive leadership.

Make every channel carry the campaign

• Partner with Paid Marketing, Lifecycle, Product Marketing, Social, and Comms so every campaign drives business impact.
• Turn big campaign ideas into always-on paid creative with a real testing engine.
• Dig into performance and turn learnings into sharper campaigns.

Build the function

• Establish creative principles, processes, and rituals.
• Experiment with AI tools, rough cuts, and prototypes to pressure-test ideas.
• Build a trusted bench of agencies, directors, editors, and freelancers.
• Mentor creative talent and build the team as beehiiv grows.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) employer match
• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 10 days per year minimum)
• Annual in-person team offsite
• Unlimited book budget
• Monthly Wellness Days

Salary & Location

USD $180,000 – $220,000 per year. Remote, United States. To apply, you must complete beehiiv's Values Assessment Questionnaire.