Associate Creative Director

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.