Creative Director (m/w/d)

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential direct-to-consumer footwear brand seeking a Creative Director to lead their entire creative organization. You will own the creative strategy and direction across brand, social media, paid social, content, graphic design, and UX/UI.

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership and professional development to Heads of Social Media, Content Production, and UX/UI, while advancing the overall creative organization
• Build a distinctive visual brand world and ensure consistent brand identity across all customer touchpoints
• Drive creative strategy for paid social channels, integrating brand, organic social, performance marketing, media buying, and conversion rate optimization
• Develop quarterly and seasonal campaigns, creative concepts, and content roadmaps in collaboration with responsible teams
• Manage and continuously improve creative output, quality, and velocity across all creative teams
• Translate current social, design, fashion, content, and cultural trends into relevant concepts through deep understanding of target audiences, products, markets, and competitors
• Oversee budget, resource planning, prioritization, and hiring within the creative organization
• Leverage performance data, creative analytics, and customer insights to make informed creative decisions and scale successful approaches
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, brand, performance marketing, and product development on strategic initiatives

What We're Looking For

Our client needs someone who can recognize within seconds whether a creative will perform, understands why an interface doesn't convert, and can make clear decisions when multiple creative teams pursue different directions.

Required qualifications:

• Extensive experience as Creative Director, Head of Creative, or comparable creative leadership role, ideally in a fast-growing DTC, e-commerce, fashion, or consumer brand
• Proven experience leading other leaders and multidisciplinary creative teams
• Outstanding understanding of graphic design, art direction, brand design, and visual systems
• Strong understanding of UX/UI, e-commerce customer journeys, and conversion optimization
• Deep expertise in content production, social media, creator content, and modern platform mechanics
• Strong knowledge of paid social, creative performance, media buying, and CRO to challenge performance teams effectively
• Experience developing major brand and performance campaigns and building scalable creative processes
• Comfort with KPIs, creative analytics, and performance data to drive creative decision-making
• Strong commercial acumen and experience with budgets, resource planning, and prioritization
• Exceptional instinct for current trends, pop culture, fashion, social media, and digital consumer behavior
• Clear point of view, strong decision-making ability, and capacity to defend decisions with solid rationale
• Extremely quick comprehension and curiosity to continuously engage with new technologies, AI, platforms, and creative developments
• High quality standards combined with speed, pragmatism, and execution power
• Professional fluency in German required for this Hamburg-based role

How We Work with You

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

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