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Vanta is a Series D AI-powered trust management platform helping businesses earn and prove security compliance. The company is seeking a Creative Director to lead the brand refresh and creative vision across all customer touchpoints.
You will lead a nine-person creative team spanning campaigns, web, production, motion, and brand design. Your responsibilities include:
- Lead the completion and global application of Vanta's brand refresh across campaigns, web, advertising, events, decks, video, product launches, and other brand surfaces
- Set and maintain a high creative bar across visual systems and applications, making final creative decisions on how copy and design integrate
- Lead, coach, and develop the nine-person creative team, providing mentorship and actionable feedback
- Build a reliable creative operating model covering intake, briefing, prioritization, capacity planning, project communication, and quality review
- Partner with Brand Strategy, Comms, Growth, Product Marketing, Web, Events, Product Design, and other stakeholders to translate complex narratives into compelling creative work
- Guide the team through focused creative sprints for major campaigns and brand moments
- Shape the long-term structure, capabilities, and talent plan for the creative organization
- Use agency and external partners selectively to extend team capabilities while maintaining a clear in-house point of view
- Bring broad cultural and creative perspective to Vanta's work and help the team explore new creative territory
- Demonstrate fluency with AI tools to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes
You will be responsible for protecting Vanta and customer data in how your team operates and delivers results. You are expected to work primarily within U.S. time zones and travel several times per year for events and team off-sites.
Requirements:
- Strong design-led background with a portfolio demonstrating excellent personal creative work and a strong record of work led through other designers and creative teams
- Meaningful in-house experience, ideally within a SaaS or technology company serving a B2B audience
- Experience creating thoughtful integration between product and brand experiences
- Ability to translate complex products and narratives into compelling, consumer-grade creative
- Proven track record leading and developing senior creative talent through mentorship, actionable feedback, and clear standards without micromanaging
- Experience building creative systems and processes from scratch, then improving them over time
- Strong operational judgment across intake, prioritization, capacity planning, timelines, stakeholder communication, and delivery
- Ability to build trust quickly with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly when priorities or timelines change
- Highly collaborative, low ego, and able to improvise under constrained timelines or changing priorities
- Agency experience or another source of broad creative perspective that helps you rapidly immerse yourself in new problems and raise the ambition of the work
- Comfortable working primarily within U.S. time zones and traveling several times per year
- Openness to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen work, demonstrating curiosity and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly
