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The team will set the creative direction, scale existing concepts and design systems, and partner closely with offshore and external production resources to deliver a high volume of work efficiently without compromising quality or brand consistency.\nThis is a hands-on creative leadership role for someone who understands both great creative work and how to operationalize it at scale. You will be responsible for raising the creative bar, building repeatable frameworks, coaching internal creative talent, and ensuring distributed production teams can execute with clarity, speed, and precision.\nYou will work closely with Brand, Creative, Product Marketing, Brand Operations, Production, and regional marketing teams.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead the creative team\nLead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of copywriters and designers.\nSet a clear creative vision and quality bar for the Scaled Studio.\nCreate an environment where creative teams can move quickly while maintaining strong craft and brand standards.\nProvide clear, actionable creative direction and feedback across a broad range of work, with a primary focus on owned channels.\nBuild the capabilities of the team over time, including identifying skills gaps and future talent needs.\nSet creative direction for scaled work\nTranslate business, brand, and marketing strategy into clear creative direction for high-volume, multi-market execution.\nLead the development of creative concepts, campaign extensions, toolkits, templates, modular systems, and channel-specific assets.\nDetermine where work requires original creative thinking versus where existing systems and assets can be intelligently adapted.\nEnsure work is culturally relevant, channel appropriate, and consistent with the brand.\nPartner with senior creative leadership on how flagship creative ideas are translated into scalable systems.\nLead offshore and distributed creative delivery\nEstablish the creative model for working with offshore and external production partners.\nEnsure offshore teams receive strong briefs, clear creative direction, templates, guardrails, and reference materials.\nReview and guide work produced by offshore resources, focusing internal creative time on the decisions that most influence quality.\nBuild workflows that enable offshore teams to operate with increasing autonomy while maintaining the creative bar.\nIdentify recurring execution issues and turn them into better systems, guidance, and training.\nBuild scalable creative systems\nDevelop repeatable creative frameworks that allow the organization to produce more work without recreating solutions from scratch.\nBuild and evolve templates, design systems, copy frameworks, playbooks, and modular asset structures.\nPartner with Brand Design and Brand Strategy teams to ensure scaled creative remains consistent with the broader brand system.\nIdentify opportunities to use automation, AI, and emerging creative technologies to improve speed, quality, and efficiency.\nHelp establish clear quality tiers and review models so the right level of creative attention is applied to different types of work.\nPartner across the organization\nPartner closely with Brand Operations to manage intake, prioritization, resourcing, timelines, and workflow.\nWork with Product Marketing and regional marketing teams to understand business needs and translate them into strong creative solutions.\nCollaborate with producers and program managers to ensure work is scoped realistically and delivered efficiently.\nBuild strong relationships with internal stakeholders and help teams navigate trade-offs between speed, scale, cost, and creative ambition.\nRepresent the Scaled Studio in creative reviews and cross-functional conversations.\nBasic Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in design or art direction for an advertising agency or in-house for a global brand \n Creative Leadership: Proven experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams (copy, art and design) and the ability to give clear, constructive creative direction. Experience leading distributed, offshore, agency, or external production teams.\nCreative Excellence: A portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative judgment across brand, campaign, digital and owned channel, CRM work. A high appreciation for craft and detail. \nScalable Frameworks & Global Reach: Strong understanding of how creative systems, templates, and modular frameworks can enable scale. Experience developing creative work for multiple markets, audiences, formats, or channels.\nOperational & Pragmatic Execution: Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, create structure from ambiguity, and balance creative quality against speed, capacity, and budget constraints.\nStrategic Stakeholder Influence: Clear communicator skilled at articulating creative rationale, partnering with senior leadership, and driving alignment across both creative and non-creative teams.\nBusiness-Minded Vision: Strong conceptual thinker capable of distinguishing bespoke creative needs from scalable work while aligning high creative ambitions with business goals.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience within a global consumer brand, technology company, in-house creative studio, or leading creative agency.\nExperience building or transforming an in-house or scaled creative production model.\nExperience working across global and local marketing organizations.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabled creative workflows, automation, and emerging production technologies.\nExperience managing creative work across both brand-building and performance-oriented channels.\nExperience in digital design or systems design.\n For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $190,000 per year - USD $211,000 per year.\nYou will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. 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