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title: 'Creative Director, Brand at Nen Creative'
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# Creative Director, Brand at Nen Creative

- **Company:** Nen Creative
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nen-creative/d043a45d-a5b3-401f-b246-00353f870fc6

## Job description

Location Must be based in the United States.

## About Nen Creative

Nen Creative partners with tech startups to launch bold ideas into the world, creating the brands and stories that fuel their growth. Since 2022, we've partnered with some of the world's top founders and institutions, including Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor, Mercor, Listen Labs, Tech Week, Cartesia, and many more. We're growing quickly and looking for a creative leader to help lead our brand practice and shape the next chapter of Nen.

## About the Role

We're looking for a Creative Director, Brand to lead our brand strategy, identity, and creative work. You'll work directly with founders and clients to shape the strategy and story, and turn bold ideas into compelling brands and creative ideas. You'll work with our team of designers, strategists, writers, and other creatives to bring those ideas to life. You'll also help us expand into larger integrated campaigns, helping clients think more broadly about launches and marketing initiatives across film, social, digital, experiential, paid, and more. This is a role for someone with exceptional creative taste, strong strategic instincts, and the ability to sell and market an idea. You should know what great creative looks like and how to lead a team to get there.

## What You'll Do

- Lead brand strategy, positioning, messaging, identity, and creative direction
- Lead projects from early discovery and concept development through final delivery
- Develop strong narratives, creative platforms, campaign ideas, and copy
- Direct multidisciplinary creative teams
- Lead client presentations, workshops, and key creative conversations
- Own creative thinking for brand pitches and support new business
- Identify opportunities to turn individual projects into larger creative campaigns
- Develop integrated ideas across film, social, web, experiential, paid, and other channels
- Partner with video leadership to bring larger campaign ideas to life
- Help grow the quality, capabilities, and commercial potential of our brand practice

## What We're Looking For

- Strong experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, or creative leadership at a branding studio or creative agency
- Exceptional creative judgment and a strong eye for design
- Strong writing, storytelling, positioning, and messaging skills
- Experience leading brand strategy and identity engagements
- Experience developing campaigns or creative work across multiple channels
- Ability to turn business and audience insights into compelling creative ideas
- Excellent client presence and confidence presenting and selling creative work
- Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams
- Commercial instincts and an interest in growing client relationships
- Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and excited to help build something

Bonus Points

- Hands-on design or art direction experience
- Experience across both brand strategy and integrated marketing campaigns
- Experience working with startups or technology companies
- Experience collaborating with film, motion, production, or experiential teams
- Experience pitching and winning new business

## Why Join Us

- Lead and shape the brand practice of a fast-growing independent creative studio
- Work directly with ambitious founders and technology companies
- Help evolve Nen from individual brand and video engagements into larger creative campaigns
- Have meaningful influence over both the work and how the studio grows
- Collaborate with strong teams across brand, design, film, motion, and production
- Remote-friendly, flexible, and entrepreneurial environment
- Healthcare coverage, PTO, and company holidays

## About Nen Creative

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A design studio that partners with early-stage tech companies to build brands, products, and stories through strategy, design, and video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Jason Zhu (Co-Founder, Partner) and Michael Zhu (Managing Partner, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design services (brand identity, product design, video production) for technology startups
- **Target customers**: B2B – early-stage startups, venture capital firms, and tech companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We build brands, products, and stories that move bold ideas forward.” (About page)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Brand Identity & Strategy**: Logo design, brand guidelines, deck design, collateral, iconography, art direction, illustration.
- **Website Design & Development**: Full web design and development (likely using Webflow), interactive prototypes, design systems.
- **Product (UI/UX) Design**: User research, UX architecture, interface design, interactive prototyping for digital products.
- **Video Production**: Launch videos, testimonial videos, scripted content, product videos, animation, motion design, cinematography.
- **Pitch Deck Design**: Specialized decks for fundraising, built to help startups tell their story to investors.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 16 employees (as of mid-2024) with 68.8% year-over-year growth (+11 people)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, LA-Tech Week, Wildr, Mantis VC (from LinkedIn)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 32 active job postings (monthly job postings up +88.2%, quarterly up +113.3%)
  - LinkedIn followers: 3,724 (+162.1% year-over-year)
  - Monthly website traffic: 6,381 visits (+64.0% monthly growth)
  - Expanding presence: New York City headquarters with job postings in San Francisco and Jersey City

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-service capability**: Offers brand, product, and video under one roof – a rare combination for a small studio.
- **Startup empathy**: Founders and team have backgrounds in building and scaling products, so they understand the pace and constraints of early-stage companies.
- **Speed and precision**: Described as “disciplined, fast, and precise” – moving like a startup while crafting like a studio.
- **Strong client roster**: Already working with top-tier VC firms and high-growth startups, signaling trust and quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the team across multiple disciplines (design, motion, production, account management, strategy) to meet growing demand from tech clients.
- **Direction for growth**: Likely expanding into new geographies (San Francisco, Jersey City) and deepening capabilities in video and motion design.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Creative, startup-like environment that values discipline and craft. The studio’s name is inspired by *Hunter × Hunter*, reflecting a focus on mastery and energy. The team is young and growing fast.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Many roles are listed as “In-Office or Remote” – offering flexibility. The company has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Jersey City (Built In listings).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
  - Opportunity to work on high-impact projects for top VC-backed startups.  
  - Roles span design, motion, production, strategy, and operations – variety of creative paths.  
  - Active hiring with 32 open positions, indicating strong growth and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [nencreative.com (Homepage)](https://www.nencreative.com/)
2. [nencreative.com/about](https://www.nencreative.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn - Nen Creative](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nencreative)
4. [Built In - Nen Creative Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/nen-creative/jobs)

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