--- title: 'Art Director at Kettle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/art-director-kettle-los-angeles-mb84ar1qgfmk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Art Director at Kettle - **Company:** Kettle - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kettle/jobs/8932779002 ## Job description Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great ideas, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. We are looking for an Art Director to work on a global fitness client running and concepting for their social media accounts. In this role, you’ll partner with our Creative, Production, and client teams to design best-in-class social and digital design ideas. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may be for you. Must be located in Los Angeles, CA, and be able to occasionally go onsite to our client’s offices in Culver City. Candidates should have: - Proven experience in digital design and art direction, especially for social media, and the ability to create pixel perfect designs while innovating work - Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners - Strong client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients - Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus - Experience with fitness, wellness, and/or sports clients preferred - Lives and breaths the latest and greatest across social media We’d like to know that you can: - Create differentiating, modern, on-brand digital design solutions—it’s all about meeting the challenge and then bringing something extra to the table - Communicate and present confidently–speaking to design solutions and describing web interactions clearly to your team and clients - Stay on top of best design practices and technologies, and see opportunities to creatively incorporate industry trends to elevate design and user experience - Embrace an agile design process and set new standards - Be both a team member and a proactive individual contributor - Accept and incorporate constructive feedback in your designs The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k - $140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location. ## About Kettle ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kettle is a digital creative agency that brings technology and creativity together to solve its clients’ toughest challenges, designing products with soul and crafting stories with new technology. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Code & Theory in January 2021) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available from sources - **Founders**: Olivier Peyre (Founder & Creative Chair) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Advertising Services / Digital Creative Agency - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise clients; works with the world’s most ambitious brands - **Mission or purpose statement**: “We design products with soul. And craft stories with new technology. To reinvent how brands meet people online.” ## Products & Services - **Digital Product Design & Development**: Full-service product design (web, mobile, apps) using modern tech stacks (React, Figma, Docker, etc.) - **Content & Social Strategy**: Content-forward experiences, social campaigns, and brand storytelling - **Creative & Brand Experience**: Brand identity, motion design, and cultural moments that “meet people where they are” ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Code & Theory in 2021 for an undisclosed amount) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at **$25M–$50M** (LinkedIn data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Part of **Stagwell Group** (parent of Code & Theory); clients include **Apple, Nike, T-Mobile, American Express, Glossier, Discover, NBC Universal, The Trevor Project** - **Growth Signals**: - 41% revenue growth (per Adweek, 2025) - Named **No. 3 in Ad Age Best Places to Work 2026** - Headcount grew **17.4% YoY** (+45 employees, now 225) - Appointed first **Chief Creative Officer (Camille Imbert)** and **Chief People Officer (Jess Mireau)**, forming an all-women C-suite ## Competitive Advantages - **Trusted by iconic brands** (Apple, Nike, T-Mobile) with long-standing client relationships - **Outcome-focused, user-centered approach** that bridges technology and creativity - **Strong design and engineering talent** – 32% of employees in Design, 19% in Product - **Remote-first culture** with offices in New York, Austin, and Oregon; operates in 9 countries - **All-women C-suite** and commitment to diversity and belonging ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the agency’s digital offerings and expanding its content and social capabilities - Deepening partnerships with existing clients (T-Mobile, Nike) while attracting new enterprise accounts - Investing in creative leadership (CCO, CPO) to drive innovation and employee experience ## Why Work Here - **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first with in-office options in New York, Austin, and Oregon; many roles are listed as fully remote (US-based) - **Culture**: Described as “curious, ambitious, always pushing for better,” with a strong emphasis on belonging and inclusion. Rated **3.6/5** on LinkedIn (62 reviews; compensation 3.8, culture 3.6). - **Benefits**: Competitive pay, bonus opportunities, monthly digital stipend, generous 401(k) matching, comprehensive healthcare coverage - **Engineering & Design Culture**: Heavy use of modern tools (React, Figma, Docker, Jira) and opportunities for senior talent (31% senior-level roles). Open positions include Product Design Director, Copy Intern, Design Intern, and more. ## Sources 1. [Kettle Website](https://wearekettle.com/) 2. [Kettle Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kettle) 3. [Built In – Kettle Careers](https://builtin.com/company/kettle-wearekettlecom) 4. [LinkedIn – Kettle Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kettle) 5. 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