Creative Director (m/w/d)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a fast-growing direct-to-consumer footwear brand based in Hamburg that has scaled to over one million customers in just four years. Our client is entering their next international growth phase and needs a senior creative leader who can define and execute a unified creative vision across all touchpoints.

This is a rare opportunity to lead the entire creative organization of a brand operating at significant scale, with direct influence on strategic direction and millions of customer interactions daily.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive creative strategy spanning brand identity, social media, paid advertising, content, graphic design, and UX/UI
• Provide functional and disciplinary leadership to department heads across social media, content production, and UX/UI while evolving the broader creative organization
• Build a distinctive visual brand world and ensure consistent identity across all customer touchpoints
• Own creative strategy for paid social channels with tight integration between brand, organic social, performance marketing, media buying, and conversion optimization
• Develop quarterly and seasonal campaigns, creative concepts, and content roadmaps in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Drive continuous improvement in creative output quality, velocity, and consistency across all creative teams
• Translate current social, design, fashion, content, and cultural trends into relevant strategic concepts
• Manage budget, resource planning, prioritization, and hiring within the creative organization
• Leverage performance data, creative analytics, and customer insights to inform creative decisions and scale successful approaches
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, brand, performance marketing, and product development on strategic direction

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience as Creative Director, Head of Creative, or equivalent creative leadership role, ideally within a high-growth DTC, e-commerce, fashion, or consumer brand
• Proven track record leading senior leaders and multidisciplinary creative teams
• Outstanding understanding of graphic design, art direction, brand design, and visual systems
• Strong grasp of UX/UI principles, e-commerce customer journeys, and conversion optimization
• Deep expertise in content production, social media, creator content, and modern platform mechanics
• Solid understanding of paid social, creative performance, media buying, and CRO sufficient to challenge performance teams as a peer
• Experience developing large-scale brand and performance campaigns plus building scalable creative processes
• Comfortable working with KPIs, creative analytics, and performance data to drive creative decisions
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, resource planning, and prioritization
• Exceptional awareness of current trends in pop culture, fashion, social media, and digital consumer behavior
• Clear point of view, strong decision-making ability, and capacity to defend creative choices with sound reasoning
• Extremely quick learner with curiosity about new technologies, AI, platforms, and creative developments
• High quality standards combined with speed, pragmatism, and execution excellence
• Fluency in German and English 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 and are competitive for this senior leadership position in Hamburg's market.

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