About the Role
This role combines exceptional creative judgment with a systems mindset to ensure creative quality and brand consistency across multiple clients, studios, and teams. You will serve as the creative lead for Brainrider, partnering closely with clients, project managers, and global studio partners to ensure all deliverables meet the highest creative standards. This is an opportunity to build a new creative operating model from the ground up, defining how creative quality is maintained, establishing new ways of working, coaching teams, and building systems for scalability and creative excellence.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the creative authority across Brainrider's client portfolio.
- Review creative work and provide actionable feedback to designers, art directors, and partner studios.
- Ensure work aligns with brand guidelines, creative briefs, and client objectives.
- Present creative recommendations directly to clients.
- Help solve creative challenges before they reach the client.
- Develop creative review processes that improve consistency across multiple studio partners.
- Build creative playbooks, onboarding materials, and best practices for new studios.
- Establish quality standards that help prevent recurring issues before work reaches clients.
- Coach teams on brand execution and creative excellence.
- Partner with Brainrider's global studio network to improve collaboration and creative quality.
- Build strong relationships with studio creative leads.
- Help onboard new studios and establish consistent ways of working.
- Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows across partners.
- Help define Brainrider's creative operating model as the company continues to grow.
- Work cross-functionally with Account Management and Project Management to improve how work moves through the organization.
- Help shape what creative leadership looks like inside Brainrider.
Requirements
- A background in design, art direction, or creative direction.
- Experience leading creative work across multiple brands or clients.
- Strong creative judgment with the confidence to provide constructive feedback.
- Experience working directly with clients and presenting creative recommendations.
- Experience mentoring designers and creative teams.
- Agency experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience developing creative standards, review processes, or brand governance is a plus.
- An entrepreneurial mindset and excitement about helping build a growing business.
Skills
- Creative judgment
- Systems mindset
- Creative leadership
- Brand consistency
- Creative quality assurance
- Client relationship management
- Team coaching
- Process development
- Mentoring
About the Company
- Brainrider is creating a new creative operating model—one that sits between clients and a global network of creative studios.
