Director of Creative (m/w/d)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential footwear brand based in Hamburg that has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. Our client is now seeking a Director of Creative to lead their entire creative organization through the next phase of brand development and international expansion.

This is an office-based role in Hamburg, working closely with creative teams, marketing, and executive leadership. You'll have the opportunity to shape the creative direction of a brand with over one million customers across multiple touchpoints.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the overall creative strategy and direction across brand, social media, paid advertising, content, graphic design, and UX/UI
• Provide leadership (both functional and personnel management) to Heads of Social Media, Content Production, and UX/UI, while advancing the entire creative organization
• Build a distinctive visual brand world and ensure consistent brand identity across all customer touchpoints
• Own the 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 relevant teams
• Manage and continuously improve creative output, quality, and speed across all creative teams
• Translate current social, design, fashion, content, and cultural trends—plus customer and market insights—into relevant brand concepts
• Oversee 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 teams, performance marketing, and product development on strategic initiatives

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience as Creative Director, Director of Creative, Head of Creative, or comparable creative leadership role, ideally in DTC, e-commerce, fashion, or a fast-growing consumer brand
• Proven experience leading other leaders and multidisciplinary creative teams
• Outstanding understanding of graphic design, art direction, brand design, and visual systems
• Strong grasp of UX/UI, 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 conversion rate optimization
• Experience developing large brand and performance campaigns and building scalable creative processes
• Comfortable working with KPIs, creative analytics, and performance data
• Strong commercial acumen and experience with budgets, resource planning, and prioritization
• Exceptional instinct for design, fashion, pop culture, social media, and digital consumer behavior
• Clear perspective, strong decision-making ability, and capacity to provide direction to strong personalities
• Extremely quick learner with genuine curiosity about AI, new technologies, platforms, and creative developments
• High quality standards combined with speed, pragmatism, and execution capability
• Fluency in German and English required for this role

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening conversation. If there's a strong mutual fit, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the employer directly—all communication flows through our recruiting process to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the interview process and are competitive for this senior leadership role in the Hamburg market.

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