# Associate Creative Director

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,200-$202,900 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for an Associate Creative Director to evolve and elevate the Elastic brand. You will lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team that transforms complex technology into clear, engaging experiences for technical audiences.

## Responsibilities

- Lead and mentor an in-house team of designers and video creatives.

- Set a strategic creative direction across campaigns, launches, events, digital, social, and executive communications.

- Provide artistic direction and guidance to team members to ensure consistency and alignment with brand standards.

- Raise the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the Elastic brand.

- Translate complex technical concepts into engaging creative for developers, practitioners, and enterprise buyers.

- Review and provide clear feedback on all creative materials to ensure they meet Elastic’s standards for quality, accuracy, and brand consistency.

- Build efficient creative processes that help the team move faster without sacrificing quality.

- Partner closely with marketing, product, executives, and agencies to deliver strategic creative.

- Champion experimentation, AI-powered workflows, and modern creative practices.

- Manage relationships with external creative agencies and media partners to ensure high-quality execution of deliverables.

## Requirements

- Experience leading in-house creative teams, ideally in B2B technology.

- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong brand thinking and execution.

- Deep understanding of technical audiences and enterprise marketing.

- Ability to balance creative innovation with operational discipline.

- Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

- Curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to continuously evolve how creative work gets done.

## Benefits

- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.

- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.

- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.

- Generous number of vacation days each year.

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

## Salary

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,200-$202,900 USD. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply: $153,800-$243,300 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- creative direction
- team leadership
- brand management
- technical communication
- AI-powered workflows

### Nice to have
- B2B technology
- enterprise marketing
- coaching
- stakeholder management

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