Ondo Finance is hiring a
Creative Director

Summary

Ondo Finance is seeking an experienced Creative Director to lead their design team. The Creative Director will be responsible for creating and providing art direction, developing the creative strategy, and ensuring consistency across Ondo's products and marketing channels. This role requires at least 7+ years of professional experience leading design teams, expertise in blockchain, web3, DeFi, financial services categories, and a compelling digital portfolio.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of professional experience leading design teams at an agency or an in-house design team
• A compelling digital portfolio, preferably gaining from traditional finance and blockchain companies
• Expertise: Experience designing in blockchain, web3, DeFi, financial services categories
• Willingness to be hands-on. This individual will be required to create and execute, as well as lead

Responsibilities

• Execute and Lead: You will both create and provide art direction to build awareness and grow our presence across audience touch points, products, and local markets
• Drive a design system that aligns with our brand and ensure consistency across Ondo’s products and marketing channels
• Develop the creative strategy, visual language, voice, and personality of creative, with a focus on awareness and integrated campaign work
• Build relationships with cross functional team members and executives to effectively manage process, deliverables and design needs
• Deliver outstanding art direction, photography and video direction, design, typography and campaign systems and support creation of assets for sales enablement, presentations, and digital storytelling needs
• Create organization and project management processes that scale; processes should work well cross-functionally to other teams to meet their creative needs
• Identify gaps in our capabilities - when we need to build and when we need to source specialists and agencies, if needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive technical knowledge of branding systems is a plus
• Understands high-quality output and is deeply obsessed with all work being in-line with brand systems and visual identities
• Resourceful to get things done quickly and efficiently
• Extensive experience onboarding the right agency partners for the right objectives
• Ability to lead by influence; inspired teams to deliver their best work
• Partial (5hr) daily overlap with EST — typically this means you're located in the Americas unless you're willing to work unusual hours

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences)
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO)
• Small remote-first team across many countries — you'll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices
• A+ colleagues — our team includes alumni from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets, Facebook, DeFi protocols like BadgerDAO, private equity funds, hedge funds, and various VC-backed startups
• Best-in-class investors — we are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts (incl. founders of Aave, Quantstamp, and Anchorage) and funds (incl. Pantera, Genesis, DCG, Coin Fund, and CMS)