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# 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/8802158002

## 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 a Creative Director, Design, to oversee a huge amount of interactive projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. This role is pivotal in shaping the design point of view and bringing our client’s brand and product stories to life across digital experiences. As a leader/doer, you’ll collaborate closely with Copy, Strategy, Production, Design, and Executive stakeholders to deliver relevant, effective, and innovative creative, with a heavy emphasis on elevating the craft of our design teams and the strategic point of view of our agency. Project depending, you’ll both lead and also execute work at least some of the time.

You’ll be expected to champion the craft of design, mentor and grow the creative team, and push conceptual thinking forward to drive innovation and excellence across the account. You’ll also build trust with senior clients, align teams around a clear creative North Star, and ensure the work is consistently moving, focused, and impressing our client. If you thrive at the intersection of strategic thinking, creative ideation, digital design, and impactful storytelling, this opportunity might be for you.

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:

- At least 8+ years of experience in digital design, art direction, or creative direction, with a strong track record of craft-oriented, brand-focused interactive work
- Proven ability to lead from concept through execution across digital experiences, with a natural ability to provide clear, actionable creative direction and ensure consistency across workstreams
- Exceptional visual and conceptual design skills, with the ability to set a clear creative vision while understanding the realities of detailed digital execution
- Experience working closely with Copy and other creative disciplines to develop integrated digital ideas and experiences
- Excellent client collaboration and presentation skills, with the confidence and executive presence to influence senior stakeholders
- Proven experience mentoring designers across levels and creating opportunities for teams to do their best work
- Active use of AI and emerging technology in your creative workflow, and an ability to help teams understand how new tools can change the way they work

We’d like to know that you can:

- Design a Vision: Setting the creative and visual direction for digital experiences, ensuring the work is distinctive, relevant, own-able, and aligned to the client’s broader brand and business goals
- Integrate Creative: Partnering with Copy, Strategy, UX, and other disciplines to develop simple, relevant concepts and digital experiences where the idea is stronger because the disciplines work together
- Team Leadership: Setting the design bar across the account, mentoring Designers and Art Directors at every level, helping them chart their career path, and creating opportunities for them to do their best work
- Client Rapport: Building trust with senior clients, presenting work with confidence, challenging needs where appropriate, and aligning stakeholders around a clear creative North Star
- Creative Quality: Knowing when to lead from the front and when to get into the work, ensuring ideas are thoughtfully designed and beautifully crafted from first exploration through final build
- Future Thinking: Staying ahead of design culture, emerging technologies, and new ways of working, bringing relevant opportunities into the work and helping the team evolve with them

This is a creative leadership role for someone ready to drive digital work that is strategically smart, conceptually rich, beautifully designed, and thoughtfully crafted.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $200k - 240k. 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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