--- title: 'Senior Art Director at Kettle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-art-director-kettle-san-francisco-los-angeles-portland-or-austin-d7kqkgadpp48' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Senior Art Director 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/8802284002 ## 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 Senior Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with our internal Creative and Production teams, and the client, to design best-in-class digital experiences and solutions. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may 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: - Hands-on experience in digital design and art direction, leading projects and initiatives, and consistently delivering pixel perfect designs, while innovating work across a variety of industries - Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners, and some experience mentoring more junior team members - Strong client collaboration and management skills, with a proven ability to present and defend design strategies to senior-level clients and stakeholders - Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus, with the ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies - While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies We’d like to know that you can: - Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions—consistently exceeding project goals and setting new creative benchmarks - Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences - Proactively stay ahead of emerging design practices and technologies, identifying and integrating industry trends to elevate both design quality and user experience across projects - Champion and refine agile design processes, establishing best practices and raising the bar for design standards throughout the organization - Serve as both a collaborative team lead, and a highly proactive individual contributor, inspiring others through example and initiative - Actively solicit, interpret, and integrate feedback from diverse sources, leveraging it to enhance design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - $170k. 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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