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By joining our team, you become an integral part of that mission. With our headquarters located in Dallas, Texas, RKD Group is a remote-first company that has helped hundreds of nonprofits raise billions of dollars to fulfill their missions.\nThe Creative Director is an influential creative leader of digital & direct mail work across the agency with primary focus on their specific client group. Their purpose is to inspire clients, Client Experience team members and Creative team members with strategies, ideas, direction, innovation, and recommendations that produce the most effective fundraising solutions. The CD is responsible for overseeing the copywriting and art direction of direct response marketing materials. They must be a proven leader, effective communicator, and an exceptional motivator with a proven record of building strong relationships. The position provides leadership within their client group and the opportunity to develop innovative digital and direct mail creative strategies with impact across the agency.\nThe CD reports directly to the Executive Creative Director and is responsible for maintaining a creative practice for the Creative Group that is consistent with the creative development and management practices for RKD practices. They will direct/mentor full-time creative staff to ensure the highest quality output.\nThey have strong communication and presentation skills, conceptual and strategic abilities, branding and brand building strategy experience, and a mastery of fundraising best practices. They have focused knowledge of digital direct response techniques, in addition to some direct mail knowledge. The CD assists in the development of new business pitch materials.\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\nThe CD will lead the creative teams of RKD’s Creative Group where they:\nWork closely with their team’s Group Creative Director to support the development of offer-focused, donor-centric, insight-driven, digital creative solutions. \nConceptualize and develop innovative, best-in-class digital creative solutions reflective of client objectives, target audience, and unique selling propositions\nProvide clear and concise creative direction to the team throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring all creative work aligns with brand guidelines, client objectives, and industry best practices\nWork closely with clients to understand their needs, goals, and feedback, presenting creative ideas and strategies to clients, and incorporating their input to refine the campaigns.\nStaying updated on the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in digital marketing, design, and creative storytelling, implementing innovative approaches to enhance campaign effectiveness\nCombine brand-building and fundraising best practices to produce results-oriented creative solutions that build and foster stronger relationships between our clients’ organizations and their prospects and supporters.\nAssist Client Experience and Sales in the positioning and promotion of concepts, strategies, executions, and other related elements of digital direct response materials to clients or potential clients.\nProvide creative team member oversight and professional development equally for both design and copy disciplines. Effectively mentor and grow individuals at varying levels of experience in the art and science of direct response fundraising. \nTravel as requested for sales efforts, creative presentation, client relationship-building, staff development.\nREQUIREMENTS:\nPortfolio of creative examples that demonstrate excellent craft and innovative concepts\nFocused experience on digital creative execution\nQUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:\nBachelor's degree in Advertising, Fine Arts, or related fields\nPC or Mac proficient\n10+ years’ experience in direct response fundraising for nonprofits preferred\n5+ years’ experience working on accounts for national brands preferred (for-profit, non-profit, or both)\nExperience with best practices in offer development for direct response marketing\nExperience in concept development and campaign development\nExperience in creative development for digital media\nProven success supervising staff \nLOCATION: Remote.\nPay range expected for the position: $110,000 to $140,000 annually.\n(The position level and compensation for this role will be determined based on the market location, experience, job skills, and qualifications of the candidate)\nRKD Group offers highly competitive compensation commensurate with experience, and a full range of benefits. \nRKD Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. \nNo sponsorships available for this position.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4839,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-07T16:47:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":140000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/rkd-group-creative-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/rkd-group-creative-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T20:13:47Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32797,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1799427},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1799427"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frkd-group-creative-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frkd-group-creative-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frkd-group-creative-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/rkd-group-creative-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frkd-group-creative-director"}]}