Senior Creative Art Director

• Art-direct and design campaigns from concept through to execution, across digital, social, app, web, events, merch, and print
• Build campaigns from the initial insight and idea through concept, copy, design, production, and final delivery
• Translate briefs and brand guidelines into considered, premium work with strong typography and craft in the details
• Own and evolve KAST's brand (the visual and verbal identity, design language, and tone of voice) so it stays distinctive and consistent everywhere it shows up, in every market
• Lead and grow the creative team (designers, editors, and directors), raising the quality of everything we ship and acting as the final bar on craft
• Concept and direct multi-touchpoint work spanning advertising, digital, app, and real-life activations
• Drive both sides of the brief: brand-building work that makes people feel something, and performance creative that actually converts (paid social, app store, lifecycle), tested and sharpened on real results
• Lead creative for product launches and go-to-market moments across consumer, KAST Business, and new cards and tiers
• Present and sell the work: bring the founders and senior leadership along, and pivot fast when the brief or the market shifts
• Partner across the business with external agencies, production partners, and internal product, growth, and marketing teams to bring ideas to life
• Own creative budgets: take a number and run with it, making smart calls on where every dollar goes
• Translate KAST's mission and brand into work that feels premium and distinctly ours

• 10+ years in the creative industry, with at least 4 of those leading work as a Senior Creative or Art Director, with art direction at the core of your craft
• A strong agency background, ideally advertising or design agencies, where you've helped build brands from zero to one and worked with some of the biggest names in the world
• A carefully curated portfolio you've shaped end to end: from the original copy lines, to the design, to the execution, to the final delivery, with a clear command of art direction, typography, and motion
• Strong on both halves of the craft: you concept and write as comfortably as you art-direct
• Strong hands-on execution across Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; comfort in After Effects / motion is a plus
• Excellent presentation skills: you can articulate, sell, and defend the work to founders and senior leadership, and take feedback without ego
• Real fluency with budgets: you understand how they work and can run a project within one without hand-holding
• A genuine self-starter who thrives in ambiguity: you don't need a lot of direction, you grasp the brand's mission from day one, and you can pivot fast as priorities shift
• Experience leading IRL activations alongside advertising and digital campaigns
• Comfortable building for an app-first, multi-market audience, and fluent in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

Bonus Points

• A career that mixes agency pedigree with time spent in-house and/or freelancing
• Fintech, crypto, or web3 experience is welcome, but genuinely not required. We care far more about the quality of your ideas and your ability to execute them