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About the Role

The Director of Brand & Creative defines, evolves, and stewards the organization’s brand and visual identity across all channels. This role leads the creative and design function, ensuring a cohesive and effective brand expression across digital platforms, publications, content, marketing communications, and video. The position manages a team of experienced individual contributors in Creative Services, focusing on career development, coaching, and feedback.

Responsibilities

Sets the creative strategy and vision for campaigns and organizational initiatives, leading the full design and creative function to deliver innovative, high-impact work that advances business objectives and strengthens brand positioning.
Owns and evolves the organization's brand identity, serving as primary authority on brand strategy, standards, and governance, and ensures consistent expression across all channels while allowing flexibility for different audiences.
Develops and maintains design systems, templates and toolkits that enable scalable, consistent brand execution and support organizational efficiency.
Collaborates with business and content strategy leaders to align brand expression with storytelling and messaging frameworks across all touchpoints.
Partners with production operations and visual production teams to translate brand direction into executable production standards, providing creative guidance for studio and non-studio video, motion and multimedia content.
Establishes workflows that balance creativity, execution speed and governance, enabling efficient delivery of high-quality creative work across priorities.
Manages and mentors design team members while identifying and managing external vendors to augment expertise and support creative deliverables.
Works collaboratively to tell the organization’s story in a clear, crisp and compelling manner across digital, video, print and at conferences.
Demonstrates FINRA’s values.
Collaborates, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.
Proactively evaluates and recommends enhancements to in-house production capabilities including audio/video studio and digital media capabilities.

Requirements

A minimum of fourteen (14) years of experience in brand, creative or design leadership required; or an equivalent combination of education and directly related professional experience.
Minimum two (2) years supervisory experience required.
Strong background in brand systems, digital design and cross-channel creative strategy.
Experience leading and evolving design teams beyond print or traditional graphic design.
Proven ability to operate in complex, matrixed organizations.
Strong collaboration skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience in corporate, agency or in-house creative environments.
FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest.
Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.
Employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

Skills

Strong experience with full Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and other best-in-class design software, including AI-enabled extensions and workflows.

Location

CO
FL
TX
IL
PA
MA
MD
VA
Washington, DC
NY
NJ

Work Type

Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements.
Full-time

Experience Level

Director
14+ years of experience in brand, creative or design leadership
2+ years supervisory experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Marketing, Visual Communication, Media Arts or relevant area of study preferred.

Salary/Compensations

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $134,400, Maximum Salary $260,400
IL/PA: Minimum Salary $147,600, Maximum Salary $286,500
MA/MD/VA/Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $154,400, Maximum Salary $299,600
NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $154,400, Maximum Salary $312,600

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
Basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal insurance.
Immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match.
Eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
Tuition reimbursement.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption assistance.
Backup family care.
Surrogacy benefits.
Employee assistance programs.
Wellness programs.
15 days of paid time off.
5 personal days.
9 sick days.
Two volunteer service days.
Military leave.
Jury duty leave.
Bereavement leave.
Voting and election official leave.
Care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment).
Childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment).
Nine paid holidays.

About the Company

FINRA is an independent, non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business with the public in the United States.
FINRA works to protect investors and maintain market integrity in a public-private partnership with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while also benefiting from the SEC’s oversight.
FINRA’s independent regulation plays a critical role in America’s financial system–all at no cost to taxpayers.
FINRA touches virtually every aspect of the securities business—from registering and educating industry participants to examining securities firms; writing rules; enforcing those rules and the federal securities laws; informing and educating the investing public; providing trade reporting and other industry utilities; and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and registered firms.
FINRA uses technology powerful enough to look across markets and detect potential abuses.
In today's fast-paced and complex global economy, FINRA is a trusted advocate for investors, dedicated to keeping the markets fair and proactively addressing emerging regulatory issues before they harm investors or the markets.
FINRA operates from Washington, DC, and New York, NY, with other offices around the country.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected category, including race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religion, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex, or any other status or classification protected by state or local law.
FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disability-related accommodation for completing the application process, please contact FINRA’s Employee Relations team at 240-386-4865 or by email at EmployeeRelations@FINRA.org.
FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.
FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.