Airbnb Creative Lead Design 

United States 

834893819

The difference you will make:

Reporting to the Group Creative Director, Interactive and working in partnership with product directors, product marketing leads, and business stakeholders, they are responsible for developing creative solutions that define and enhance creative ideas from concept through execution. This role requires strong design expertise and deep understanding of design systems, brand design, and UI/UX.

You'll be entrusted with the Airbnb brand and expected to push forward the way it’s expressed through brand campaigns, in-product merchandising, product experiences, and other communications. You will be able to translate business and marketing purposes into big ideas that can be executed brilliantly across various initiatives and mediums.

A typical day:

• Hands-on execution of world-class communications—from strategy and concept to point and pixel perfect artwork.
• Reviewing, providing constructive feedback to peers and more junior team members across multiple disciplines: visual design, copywriting, art direction, motion graphics and interactive.
• Champion the craft of design and visual storytelling, and help elevate them throughout the department’s output.
• Partner with horizontal designers and Campaign Creative to ensure the brand’s creative direction and voice is consistent across digital outputs.
• Collaborate with various departments, producers, program managers, photographers and illustrators and engineering to achieve the finished product on time and on budget.
• Support external creative and production agencies to execute work that is of the highest quality and consistency.
• Champion Airbnb’s mission of connection and belonging at every step. Be a guardian for Airbnb’s values of inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance.

Your expertise:

• 10+ years experience overall within a creative agency or in-house at a leading brand.
• A diverse portfolio of interactive and innovative communications work.
• A passion for the craft of their discipline, and for being hands-on with teams and the work.
• Strong understanding of interactive and digital design including collaboration with engineers to see design through to build.
• Skilled in multitasking to manage a high volume of creativity and content.
• A willingness to collaborate and debate with strong creative thinkers, at all levels, in all corners of the company—Strategic + Systems based thinking – your work is built upon insights and systems, not simply creative whims.

*A CURRENT PORTFOLIO OF WORK IS REQUIRED FOR EACH APPLICANT*