Creative Director, Growth Design

The Community You Will Join: 

Airbnb is looking for a visionary Creative Director, Design to join the Marcom Creative Team. Spanning design, copywriting, interactive, photography, film, and events, this internal team stewards the Airbnb brand and creates a wide range of highly visible work to inspire our rapidly growing guest and host communities.  

The Difference You Will Make:

The Creative Director, Growth Design will report to the Group Creative Director. This key role will help steer performance marketing, lifecycle marketing for guests and hosts while sustaining a supportive creative culture that inspires teammates to produce ever better creative. It requires a great creative and strategic mind paired with equal parts humility and empathy.

You are a standout designer and storyteller who can see the bigger picture. Before sitting down to design, you think about first principles—what problem are we solving, why will people care, how can it scale? You understand the nuances, power and principles of design deeply. You have a strong track record of partnering closely with Growth Marketing professionals, and overseeing all aspects of the creative process from start to finish. You can communicate effectively with direct reports, fellow team members, and cross-functional partners. You think strategically and can help build high-level product narratives, translating them into inspiring and successful creative solutions. You are a learner not merely a “knower.” You have mentored numerous teams to brilliance and have an enviable portfolio that demonstrates success at driving business impact, particularly lifestyle brands.

You'll be entrusted with the Airbnb brand and expected to push it forward. You will be helping to build a challenging, enriching, respectful, and fun environment for a team of talented creatives. These are important shoes, and we're excited to fill them.

A Typical Day: 

• Inspire, generate, and refine big ideas that are strategically-informed, channel agnostic, and deeply integrated between all touch-points and product experiences. 
• Champion the craft of design and help elevate them throughout the department’s output.
• Partner with leaders across the company to ensure the brand’s creative vision is consistent with broader company vision and initiatives. 
• Partner with external creative and production agencies to execute work that is of the highest quality and consistency. 
• Partner with Executive Producers, Program Managers, Marketers and Photo to match project needs with company priorities.
• Partner with Engineering teams to build new capabilities to push the work forward.
• Champion Airbnb’s mission of connection and belonging at every step. Be a guardian for Airbnb’s values of inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance. 

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years experience overall, and 5+ years of experience within a creative agency or in-house at a leading brand. 
• An outstanding and diverse portfolio of innovative digital work with a proven record of business impact.
• Experience leveraging emerging technology to solve design problems at scale.
• Excellent management skills. Experience inspiring creative teams with a strong vision and empowering individuals to achieve their best work.
• Experience collaborating closely with Growth Marketing teams. Ability to translate market research, data, and strategy to creative solutions.
• Deep experience working toward solutions across performance Marketing media.
• Flexible and dependable. 
• Incredible organization, communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Empathy for the customer, and empathy for individuals on the creative team. 
• Passionate about Airbnb’s mission and purpose. 

A CURRENT PORTFOLIO OF WORK IS REQUIRED FOR EACH APPLICANT.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.