Creative Director (Art Direction)

Your role as a Creative Director is to be a craft leader that helps bring Atlassian products to life through well-crafted campaigns across all our channels and customer touch points. We are looking for a product-minded creative, experienced in campaign thinking and visual storytelling with a portfolio that shows an attention to design detail. We work in a collaborative environment: your intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking will be a plus. You will expected to show business impact and produce creative solutions that help our team achieve our goals with thoughtful customer-centric creative work.

In this role, you will:

• Work with a CD/CW counterpart on conceptual challenges big and small. From full brand campaigns to tactical one off events.
• Be a craft expert who elevates the creative bar at Atlassian with fresh viewpoints, experiences, and interests.
• Be a brand champion to colleagues across the organization, and work with leadership to develop how creative impacts the business and our growth directly.
• Work on a tight-knit team, alongside with partners from marketing and brand design, involved in the end-to-end marketing process from ideation to implementation.
• Concept and deliver robust brand and product campaigns and experiences.
• Push and challenge assumptions through productive debate, which leads to innovation and better outcomes.
• Direct and collaborate with agency partners to execute on behalf of the Atlassian brand.

Your background:

• 10+ years of Art Direction experience in a mix of agency and in house creative departments demonstrated with an exciting portfolio that highlights award worthy thinking and work. Experience in technology a plus.
• Experience collaborating with a diverse team in a culture motivated by innovation, huge plus if you've worked with distant teammates and understand the communication patterns of working with distributed teams.
• A portfolio that showcases projects that demonstrate familiarity with complex brands and messaging.
• An understanding of the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, and color.
• Experience that spans film, web, print, motion, experiential, and campaign world.
• An appreciation of feedback as a gift.
• Exceptional visual, verbal and written skills.
• A shared belief that collaboration improves creativity.
• Experience working with cross-functional partners in marketing and strategy organizations, as well as direct oversight of external partners like agencies and freelancers.
• Confidence in presenting and articulating your work to peers, partners, and leadership.
• Expertise with the Adobe Creative Suite, and collaboration software for presentations. Experience in Figma a plus.

More about our creative team

The Creative Studio is Atlassian's dynamic internal creative agency embedded within the marketing organization. Collectively, the team defines, articulates, and scales how millions of users experience and connect with the Atlassian brand from multiple dimensions. Focused on articulating the messaging of our brand and products to consumers, you will be amongst the designers, illustrators, writers, and animators who combine strategy with research, creativity, and craft to build and shape how we're viewed by the world.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we try to design equitable, explainable, and fair compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is determined by a candidate's skills and experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $168,100 - $224,200

Zone B: $151,300 - $201,700

Zone C: $139,500 - $186,100

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefitsto learn more.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.