Creative Director

About This Role

This Creative Director role at Citadel is for someone who enjoys reimagining everyday designs and leading a creative team. The position involves taking charge of creative projects from concept to delivery, balancing ambition with practical constraints, and developing scalable brand assets.

Responsibilities

• Produce polished assets using Design Thinking and Design Sprints from concept through final delivery
• Balance creative ambition with budget, timeline, and technical constraints
• Stitch fragmented brand assets into a system that scales past Citadel's next phase
• Grow a scrappy Design Thinking toolkit into a documented system the next hire inherits
• Lead brainstorming sessions that surface bold, original ideas
• Recast dry compliance copy as something a human might willingly read
• Sustain an 11-week sprint cadence without letting the work go generic

Requirements

• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• 10+ years navigating the politics that creative work attracts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Calm under the design-led chaos a director role tends to generate

Benefits

• Full benefits
• Iconography mentorship

Important Details

• Schedule: temporary hours, flexible

About the Company

The team at Citadel is small, unglamorous, and believes that Hot Springs is the best place to reinvent creative. Feedback flows in every direction at Citadel.