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About the Role

This is an evergreen job post to express interest in future opportunities with Blue State's Creative Director team. The role focuses on creating compelling campaigns, brands, and experiences for causes that matter, working collaboratively to deliver innovative and flawless work. The ideal candidate will bring creative vision and impactful leadership to nonprofits, advocacy campaigns, and brands' social impact teams, with a belief that great creative is data and strategy-driven.

Responsibilities

Develop a vision for client's creative success.
Guide the development and implementation of campaigns, appeals, and creative platforms from initial presentations through final delivery.
Help organizations be more meaningful, relevant, and human through conceptual thinking and messaging.
Assess and ensure the quality of the creative process and product on an ongoing basis.
Attend internal critiques and provide creative solutions.
Provide final sign-off on design, copy, and UX work for key projects.
Foster a culture of collaboration and creativity.
Stay on top of developments in the field, industry, and culture.
Help identify, hire, and retain designers, copywriters, and other creatives.
Mentor junior members of the project team.
Bring in new clients and define/improve the work being created.
Meet regularly with the global creative director team for creative inspiration.

Requirements

6+ years in a senior creative role, ideally with hands-on designing experience.
At least some experience working on fundraising and mobilization campaigns.
Experience in leading and collaborating with teams of designers, copywriters, strategists, and creatives.
Ability to take insight and develop compelling, digitally-driven ideas and products.
Ability to clearly articulate design or strategy related dilemmas and offer multiple solutions linked to strategy and insights.
Comfort and passion for creative testing, co-creation with clients and audiences, and constructively consolidating feedback from global stakeholders.
Impeccable presentation skills, able to explain design or creative strategy rationale and guide clients through difficult decisions.
Experience in pitching is a strong advantage.
Deep knowledge of persuasion strategies & tools: copywriting, social influence, brand advocacy, fundraising, UX and experience design.
Strong sense of communications and its operating model.
An area of expertise or passion in the design world (fundraising, design, UX, communications, or social change) to upskill wider team members.
Produce inspiring, flawless, and innovative work.
Ability to be both a doer and a thinker.
Patient with colleagues and clients.
Ability to make key decisions when and where required.
Ability to adapt to new situations, solve problems on the fly, and communicate effectively.
Teamwork and scrappiness required.
Respect for clients and their expertise.
Shared passion and curiosity for making change.
Comfort with ambiguity.
Restlessness that resists the status quo.
Commitment to quality and progress.
Firm grasp on the latest AI tools, their creative and ethical considerations, and a disrelish for poor quality work.
Empathy, communication, respect, and ability to act as a role model.

Skills

Creative vision
Impactful leadership
Data-driven creative
Strategy-driven creative
Conceptual thinking
Messaging
Collaboration
Creative testing
Co-creation
Feedback consolidation
Presentation skills
Pitching
Persuasion strategies
Copywriting
Social influence
Brand advocacy
Fundraising
UX design
Experience design
Communications
AI tools
Problem-solving
Adaptability

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Unlimited time off (inclusive of sick, personal and vacation days)
$1,000 annual in professional development funds
Fully subsidised health and dental insurance for employees
Generous pension match via salary sacrifice
Generous paid holiday schedule
Parental leave policy for up to 32.5 weeks of coverage at full pay
Group Income Protection (GIP)
Group Life Assurance (GLA)
Optional holiday travel insurance
Pre-tax season ticket loans
Cycle to work (up to £2000)

About the Company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency that partners with leading causes, brands, and campaigns to create real change.
They transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters.
Clients include AARP, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and Oxfam.
Blue State is an independent agency with offices in the US and London, led by creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds.

Equal Opportunity

At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
They encourage applications from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between.
Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process.
Requests for reasonable accommodation for a disability can be made by contacting recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request.