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# Associate Creative Director, Design at Kettle

- **Company:** Kettle
- **Location:** San Francisco Los Angeles Portland OR Austin, TX
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kettle/jobs/8801950002

## Job description

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

We are hiring an Associate Creative Director, Design, to oversee end-to-end digital website project execution for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner directly with our clients to design world-class digital experiences that both adhere to established standards and push the creative in new directions. You’ll be hands-on in the work as an experienced designer, while guiding other Designers and Art Directors in your pod as a project lead. If the term conceptual digital design resonates with you, along with detailed execution, then this role may be a fit.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Candidates should have:

- Significant experience in digital design and art direction, and the ability to create pixel perfect designs while innovating work within a rigorous product environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners
- Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients
- Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior level designers, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas
- While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients

We’d like to know that you can:

- Understand and challenge your clients’ needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work
- Be the person the client looks up to be inspired and to get their creative questions asked. Help them understand the team’s perspective and align on the creative North Star
- Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same
- Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear innovative UX, beautiful art direction and on-point tone & voice
- Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs
- Consistently demonstrate an expertise in the competitive landscape from a creative standpoint, and stay abreast of design culture and best-in-class creative across channels
- Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow
- Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients

The target range of base compensation for this role is $160k - 190k. 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. [Stagwell – Kettle Profile](https://www.stagwellglobal.com/agency/kettle/)

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