Executive Creative Director (AI)

Location: Hybrid, Hub - San Francisco, United States

Salary: $200K–$240K, plus equity and bonus.

Company

hirify.global builds identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy, verifying identities in real time and preventing fraud for businesses, governments, and consumers.

What you will do

• Set the creative standard and lead hirify.global’s global creative strategy, multi-year vision, and roadmap.
• Build, recruit, develop, and retain an in-house multidisciplinary creative organization.
• Direct creative for flagship campaigns, advertising, web, video, events, and product launches.
• Build and evolve global brand and design systems while overseeing the full creative lifecycle from brief through delivery.
• Partner with executive leadership, Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to connect creative work with business, revenue, and product goals.
• Manage agencies and vendors, optimize production operations, and implement DAM, AI design, and generative AI governance practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design, art direction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is not required.
• 12+ years of progressive creative leadership experience, including at least 5 years as a Creative Director, Executive Creative Director, or Head of Creative leading managers and individual contributors.
• Experience at a high-growth technology or SaaS scale-up, ideally B2B, raising creative standards and building an in-house multidisciplinary function.
• Portfolio and case studies demonstrating brand-defining work and measurable business impact.
• Expert-level art direction across brand, digital, motion, video, experiential, and advertising, including global design systems and brand standards.
• Experience recruiting, developing, coaching, and retaining creative talent and managers.
• Experience managing large budgets, external agencies, and high-value vendor partnerships.
• Strong business acumen, executive communication, creative ROI measurement, and experience making complex technical products clear and culturally relevant.
• Experience running scalable creative operations and applying AI-assisted workflows with governance, brand safety, and copyright considerations; advanced proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern creative and project management tools.

Nice to have

• Experience in trust-driven categories such as security, fintech, or infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work based at the San Francisco hub.
• Work in a high-responsibility environment focused on precision, ownership, critical thinking, and solving customer problems.
• Equity and bonus offered in addition to salary.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity, inclusion, professional integrity, and high standards of business ethics.
• Accommodation support is available during the application and hiring process upon request.