Creative Director - Marketing

Western Digital is seeking an experienced Creative Director to develop and lead a newly formed creative team to support Western Digital’s commercial and consumer  brands. 

The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader who is as comfortable leading a team of creative professionals as producing high quality creative assets. The ability to recruit, onboard, and lead an in-house team of creative professionals will be essential to success in the role.

As the champion of overall design excellence, they will align teams to create innovative and effective design solutions from inception through to delivery, impacting a varied and diverse set of design needs across all stages of the customer journey, from initial awareness, to point of purchase, and user experience.

The Creative Director must be an effective communicator, with the comfort and ability to effectively relay creative concepts and solutions to creative teams and key stakeholders.  They must also be willing and able to jump in and create designs themselves when needed.

• Willingness and capability to produce designs yourself when needed
• Lead development of content that is resonant across a variety of touchpoints including product launches, category storylines, and curated events
• Establish a best-in-class network of internal and freelance talent, and production partners to lead development of content that supports business needs
• Support development of creative software UI/UX experiences that are optimized for improved usability, usefulness, and exceptional visual design
• Understand our communities’ needs through insights and data to creatively and strategically express them through campaign ideas, content and stories
• Partner with business leadership to distill needs into actionable design initiatives and elegant creative solutions to them

Key Qualifications:

• 18+ years of experience working with in-house creative teams or creative agencies
• 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary creative teams including Design, Copywriting, Video, UI/UX, 3D/Motion Graphics
• Demonstrated ability to strategically create and execute integrated campaigns with a consumer brand
• Comfort working directly with a variety of software and tools to visualize and develop innovative design projects
• Experience working with global brands; a combination of commercial (B2B) and consumer (B2C) technology brand experience a huge plus
• Experience building effective teams across different locations and time zones.

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.