Beekeeper Group is looking for a Creative Director who can fuse strategic public affairs insight with standout creative execution. This is not a pure design role. We need someone who can imagine and articulate bold ideas, shape them into compelling visual and narrative concepts, and lead a small but mighty team in bringing those ideas to life.
This role sits at the heart of our work for mission-driven organizations and advocacy campaigns. You should be comfortable in the policy and public affairs spaces, fluent in design and creative strategy, and excited to push clients toward fresh, distinctive creative. If you can guide a project from blank page to polished product and manage a team through the process, we want to hear from you.
What will you be doing?
- Leading creative vision and execution for campaigns, brand development, digital products, and visual storytelling across the Hive
- Translating complex policy and advocacy goals into compelling concepts, narratives, and design directions
- Developing and documenting creative processes, templates, and systems that improve efficiency, reduce rework, and enable consistent quality across accounts
- Working in tandem with account and technology teams to scope creative projects by providing accurate estimates of effort
- Managing creative resource allocation across accounts, balancing workload, and communicating capacity constraints to account teams
- Owning and elevating the creative process from ideation through delivery including briefs, mood boards, conceptual frameworks, and final products
- Providing strong direction, constructive feedback, and skill-building opportunities to Digital Designers and Junior Designers, and ensuring their growth and development
- Collaborating closely with account teams to shape creative strategies that support clients’ communications, advocacy, and engagement goals
- Presenting creative concepts to clients and internal stakeholders with clarity and confidence
- Maintaining high standards of quality across all creative outputs and ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and accessibility (WCAG 2.1) best practices
- Overseeing the production of digital assets including website designs, social graphics, video storyboards, animations, reports, infographics, toolkits, and campaign collateral
- Working with external partners (photographers, illustrators, printers, etc.) as needed
- Managing creative budgets including stock assets, software licenses, and external vendor relationships
- Identifying creative opportunities across accounts and proposing innovative approaches to storytelling and design
- Anticipating challenges, navigating constraints, and providing solutions that balance creativity, clarity, and feasibility
- Partnering with sales team on new business efforts by shaping pitch creative and identifying opportunities where our proposals can benefit from distinct visual approaches
- Championing a creative culture within Beekeeper Group and elevating our collective design and storytelling capabilities
- Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time, with or without notice
Skills
- 7+ years of professional creative experience, ideally in agency, advocacy, or mission-driven environments
- Prior experience managing and developing creative staff
- A strategic, conceptual mind with the ability to synthesize complex issues into clear, compelling, creative
- Comfort and familiarity with public affairs, cause communications, and/or advocacy campaigns
- Demonstrated experience directing designers and guiding multidisciplinary creative work
- Strong visual and editorial sensibility: you can spot what’s good and explain WHY it works
- Ability to provide thoughtful, actionable feedback and mentor creative staff
- Experience presenting creative work to clients and defending choices with clarity and diplomacy
- A collaborative working style combined with the confidence to push teams toward better, bolder ideas
- Ease operating on tight deadlines, competing priorities, and restrictive budgets in an agency environment
- Expert knowledge of design principles: typography, layout, color, accessibility, and digital best practices
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and Canva
- Working knowledge of UX/UI and web design workflows; experience designing for WordPress and understanding CMS constraints & best practices
- Ability to lead creative concepting for campaigns (digital, social, brand, motion, print)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Compensation
The annual compensation for this role is between$110,000–$140,000, commensurate with experience, with the expectation that a successful candidate will be able to leverage our competitive business incentive structure (details available upon request).
If you are interested in this position, please apply here: https://beekeepergroup.com/career/creative-director/