Creative Director

Summary

Join Ondo Finance, a leading blockchain-enabled investment firm, as their experienced Creative Director. You will lead and execute the creative direction for Ondo’s brand and assets, developing its brand architecture, design system, and strategy. This role involves hands-on design work across various channels, including social media and graphic design, while also managing a team of designers. You will build relationships with cross-functional teams and ensure high-quality creative output aligned with the brand. The position requires a strong portfolio, extensive experience leading design teams, and a deep understanding of branding systems. Ondo offers competitive compensation, full benefits, a flexible vacation policy, and the opportunity to be an early team member in a growing company.

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
• Partial (5hr) daily overlap with EST — typically this means you're located in the Americas unless you're willing to work unusual hours

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, web designs, 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
• Ensure the quality of creative output is world-class

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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — we're well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation
• 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, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap
• Best-in-class investors — we are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures