The Creative Director guides and elevates Brighton Jones' brand identity, overseeing design standards while actively contributing to creative execution across various platforms and campaigns.
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At Brighton Jones, we’re a purpose-driven, client-focused team committed to helping individuals live richer lives. As one of the largest RIAs in the nation, we’ve built a culture of continuous growth, collaboration, and community—recognized with 15 consecutive “Best Places to Work” awards, including Inc.com’s 2025 list, as well as national honors for community impact.
We lead the industry in aligning wealth, passion, and purpose to help our clients thrive. With over $30 billion in assets under advisement, 300+ teammates nationwide, and a dynamic, team-based approach, we’re growing fast—and we’re looking for driven, curious individuals to join our #OneTeam.
The Creative Director defines and elevates the visual expression of Brighton Jones — guiding the brand’s design language, creative standards, and creative vision while remaining deeply engaged in the craft. This role is both visionary and hands-on: you set the creative direction and contribute directly to the design work that brings it to life.
You bring depth in brand building — not just running creative, but crafting the systems, standards, and ideas that elevate a brand from great to iconic. You understand how powerful brands behave, how they gain cultural momentum, and how to infuse that thinking into every expression of Brighton Jones.
This is a vision-setting role, not a trend-following one. You bring clarity, originality, and a long view — building creative that is both current and enduring. You’ll guide the team toward a unified brand expression across campaigns, digital touchpoints, content ecosystems, internal culture moments, and community experiences.
This is a studio-centered role. Creative energy rises in shared spaces — pinning up work, debating the details, iterating fast, shaping ideas shoulder-to-shoulder. You’ll spend most of your time in our Seattle studio, with flexibility for focused remote work as needed.
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*As part of the application, please provide an accessible link to your professional portfolio.*
Your Role - Brand Leadership
- Evolve, elevate, and steward the Brighton Jones brand identity — visual, verbal, motion, and experiential — ensuring coherence and distinction across all platforms.
- Lead the development of brand systems, design languages, templates, guidelines, and creative standards that scale across teams and markets.
- Bring strategic positioning to life visually, partnering with the Director of Brand Storytelling to ensure unified narrative + design alignment.
Your Role - Hands-On Creative Execution
- Contribute directly to design work, from early concepting to final execution — including brand system development, page layouts, environmental graphics, digital designs, and motion exploration.
- Create visual prototypes, mood boards, design comps, and iterative drafts that clarify direction and inspire the team.
- Push craft quality through meticulous design, typography, visual hierarchy, and refinement.
Your Role - Creative Direction
- Drive concepting and design direction for all brand, marketing, digital, and experience initiatives — from campaigns to tentpole moments.
- Shape high-quality creative that is story-driven, emotionally resonant, and unmistakably Brighton Jones.
- Guide concept development from a blank page through to final execution, ensuring excellence at every stage.
Your Role - Cross-Functional Partnership
- Collaborate with Brand, Digital, Content, and Experience teams to ensure unified storytelling and creative integrity across every channel.
- Work closely with leadership to bring strategic priorities to life visually and narratively.
Your Role - Team Leadership & Development
- Mentor designers, writers, and creative collaborators to produce original, high-craft work rooted in strong ideas.
- Model creative excellence, clear and constructive critique, and a growth mindset.
- Present confidently and compellingly to executive leadership, clients, advisors, and external partners.
Your Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree required. Design-related major preferred.
- 10+ years leading brand, design, and creative direction, ideally within purpose-driven, design-forward, or culture-shaping organizations.
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong design craft, brand identity systems, and high-quality visual execution.
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma/Adobe Creative Suite, typography, composition, layout, and motion principles..
- Experience leading and mentoring designers while remaining active in the work.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills — especially in partnering with storytellers, strategists, and cross-functional leaders.
- Ability to operate at both 30,000 ft and 3 ft — visionary and tactical, conceptual and craft-oriented.
- This role is an in-office, full-time, and exempt position. We are a work from office culture with a lot of flexibility.
- *As part of the application, please provide an accessible link to your professional portfolio.*
Compensation
- Pay: $150,000 - $180,000 per year
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 3% of annual compensation
- Equity ownership opportunities for every employee
- New Business Incentive Program
- Generous employee referral bonus
- Cell phone data reimbursement
- Financial planning services discount for employees and immediate family members
- Minimum 3 weeks PTO starting Day 1
- Winter Break, Summer Friday flex-days, and 10 paid holidays
- Unlimited Volunteer Time Off plus company grant matching
- Heavily subsidized transit
- 100% reimbursement for required training, certifications, licensing, and dues
- Personal career development plans
- Richer Life Business Partner (coaching for all employees)
- Mindful Emotional & Social Intelligence training
- Annual professional & personal wellbeing stipend
- Quarterly team-building events
- Regular social events
- Employee-led book clubs, committees, and affinity groups
- Paid Parental leave (13 weeks for birthing parent and 6 weeks for non-birthing parent)
- Adoption benefits
- Anniversary milestone celebrations, including a 3-month paid sabbatical at 10 years
Ownership & Financial Wellbeing
Time & Flexibility
Growth & Development
Connection & Community
Family & Milestones
Visa Sponsorship: Please note, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for the position offered. Accordingly, we are unable to hire individuals who require, or will require, employment visa sponsorship either now or in the future.
We are committed to building a business where all of our team members genuinely love where they work and are empowered to reach their full potential. We do this by building authentic relationships with one another, learning and growing continuously together, working hard while having lots of fun, and giving back to our community.
Brighton Jones is a team founded on equity and respect, and we’re on a mission to help each other, our clients, and global community thrive. We actively foster a compassionate and inclusive culture and are committed to creating a diverse #OneTeam where teammates can show up authentically.
To the right individual, we offer very competitive compensation, a robust benefits package, an award-winning culture, and rewarding career growth.
Brighton Jones provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or caste. In addition to federal law requirements, Brighton Jones complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has offices. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Top Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
Brighton Jones Seattle, Washington, USA Office
2030 1st Avenue, 3rd Floor,, Seattle, WA, United States, 98121
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