Creative Director
Job Description
Engagement Overview
The Creative Director defines and stewards Indagare's brand identity, visual world, and creative standards across marketing channels. This engagement ensures coherence of taste, storytelling, and design while enabling a high-velocity creative pipeline supported by in-house resources. The Creative Director partners closely with the CMO, Editorial leadership, and fractional creative talent to build a distinctive brand and creative assets that reinforces Indagare's positioning, desirability, and authority in luxury travel.
What You'll Do
- Oversee the evolution and maintenance of Indagare's brand guidelines, ensuring they remain relevant in a fast-evolving digital landscape.
- Lead the conceptualization and production of innovative campaigns and creative assets, with a focus on digital and social excellence
- Drive the creative strategy for groundbreaking marketing campaigns across all channels and mediums
- Work across the business to optimize resources, budgets, and schedules, ensuring the team delivers at the highest standard without compromising agility.
- Work collaboratively across the organization to drive innovation and creative excellence
- Communicate vision and feedback effectively—verbally, written, and visually—to stakeholders at all levels
- Additional creative responsibilities and projects upon request
Success Metrics
- Creative excellence - quality, consistency and velocity
- Brand aesthetic coherence
- Editorial and exec alignment on brand identity
Qualifications
- 8-12+ years of experience in creative direction within digital, editorial, or luxury/lifestyle environments
- Sophisticated taste with the ability to translate brand strategy into visual and creative systems
- Experience building or stewarding a brand world across multiple channels (social, digital, email, campaigns, product)
- Ability to elevate creative without slowing down velocity; comfortable empowering in-house talent to execute
- Comfortable in high-context, cross-functional creative processes with multiple stakeholders (Product, Editorial and Marketing)
- Curiosity about travel, culture, design, and storytelling; a marketer's instinct and a strategist's clarity
- Low-ego collaborator who balances conviction with openness; able to offer critique that moves work forward
Work Arrangement
Fully Remote
Job Type
Part-time
About the Company
Indagare is a renowned brand in the world of travel. Founded by Melissa Biggs Bradley in 2007, Indagare's mission is to inspire and empower people to change their lives through travel. With a team of over 90 travel experts, Indagare has grown from a small apartment-based company to a global travel-planning powerhouse. Indagare is all about authentic and meaningful experiences. They believe in traveling intelligently and responsibly to preserve endangered experiences. To help their members make the most of their trips, Indagare scouts over 70 countries every year, providing customized itineraries and recommendations on where to stay, eat, shop, and what to do. When you become an Indagare member, you become part of an international family that enriches your life. From cooking with a local chef to making lifelong friends on Insider Journeys, the relationships you build within the Indagare community are meant to last a lifetime. Indagare's high-touch service ensures that every aspect of your trip is taken care of, from personalized restaurant recommendations to curated reading materials. Their team is dedicated to guiding members before, during, and after the trip-planning process with thoughtfulness and attention to detail. Experience the transformative power of travel with Indagare and embark on a journey that will change your life. Join Indagare today and unlock access to their extensive network of travel expertise, insider knowledge, and curated recommendations.
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