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About the Role

Realtor.com® is hiring an Executive Creative Director (Design) to lead the visual identity of one of the most consequential brands in American life. You'll set the creative vision for the brand's visual expression and the team's craft trajectory, leading design and art direction across integrated campaigns. You'll be the senior visual voice on our flagship celebrity platform and set the standard for everyday work that defines the category.

Responsibilities

Own the visual ambition and creative standard for all The Bureau produces: consumer brand, client brand, product marketing, CRM, social, audio, experiential, and corporate communication.
Champion big idea platforms with multi-year legs.
Hold a high bar on briefs, production, and the visual language that carries the brand across every touchpoint.
Serve as the senior creative voice on Nearly Home with Reba McEntire — stewarding the visual craft across every surface The Bureau owns and evolving the platform.
Build on the Effie Finalist foundation, holding the standard that makes the platform defensible, distinctive, and durable.
Bring a retail creative mindset to a national brand platform — producing work that creates urgency, responds to market conditions, and stays reactive to rate cycles, seasonal inventory shifts, and cultural moments in real estate.
Hold the brand standard without sacrificing speed or relevance.
Partner with brand strategy and performance marketing to keep creative ambition and business effectiveness aligned.
Set the vision for how AI tools like Gemini, Claude, and Figma MCP get integrated into the team's daily practice — expanding capacity, raising output quality, and freeing the team for the creative work that matters most.
Model AI-augmented creative leadership.
Partner with the VP, Brand & Creative and Senior Manager, Brand Operations to implement AI across workflows and empower Art Directors.
Invest in the Art Directors and designers as the next generation of creative leadership — structured development, real feedback, and briefs that stretch their range.
Build a collaborative, generous, craft-obsessed creative culture.
Lead and evolve Realtor.com’s agency relationships as the senior creative authority.
Direct external directors, producers, and production houses as creative peers — with a point of view on casting, treatment, editorial, and final output.
Own the visual identity and brand design system — upgrading, implementing, and governing it at scale across consumer and client touchpoints.
Redesign creative workflows as tools and technology evolve.
Build systems that increase consistency, speed, and quality without flattening creative ambition.

Requirements

12+ years of design and art direction experience across agency and in-house creative environments.
5+ years at the ECD, GCD, or senior CD level leading Art Directors and senior individual contributors.
A portfolio of big idea platforms with multi-year legs — broadcast, digital, OOH, audio, and social — with craft excellence and business impact.
In-house creative leadership experience — current or prior.
Proven experience upgrading or implementing a full visual identity and brand design system at scale, and governing it across a complex organization.
A track record of redesigning creative workflows as tools and technology have evolved.
A retail or marketplace creative sensibility.
Proven creative range across commercial brand advertising and purpose-driven or cause-based work.
Mastery of the fundamentals: art direction, typography, photography, visual identity, layout, and visual systems.
Strong fluency in video, motion, audio, and experiential.
Experience leading agency and production relationships as the senior creative authority.
A sharp, practiced point of view on AI in creative practice — what it multiplies, how to integrate it, and how to make a team meaningfully better with it.
Clear creative taste, strong opinions held loosely, and a generous instinct for developing the people around you.

Skills

Design
Art Direction
Visual Identity
Brand Design System
AI Fluency
Gemini
Claude
Figma MCP
Typography
Photography
Layout
Visual Systems
Video
Motion
Audio
Experiential

Location

Austin

Work Type

Hybrid
In-person collaboration

Experience Level

Executive Creative Director
Senior Director

Education Level

Degree not specified

Benefits

Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
Family forming benefits
13 Paid Holidays
Flexible Time Off
8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

About the Company

Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home.
Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
The Bureau is our in-house brand and creative organization — talented, proud, and deeply rooted in understanding our audiences.
The brand has earned the right to swing big with recent campaigns.
In the last twelve months we've expanded The Bureau's remit to own both consumer and client brand under one creative roof, and the Austin-based design and copy bench has grown alongside teammates who've shaped this brand for 10+ years.

Equal Opportunity

Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.