Creative Director

About the Company

Artsy and Artnet have come together under one leadership structure, uniting two major online destinations for the art world. Artnet remains a trusted source for art journalism, transaction data, auctions, and market insight, while Artsy continues to focus on helping people discover and buy art through tailored recommendations, editorial storytelling, and a smooth collecting experience across web and mobile. Combined, the two brands reach more than 7 million monthly visitors in over 190 countries and connect with over 9 million followers across social channels.

Role Overview

Artsy is seeking a Creative Director to guide the next phase of evolution for the Artsy and Artnet brands and their visual identities at an important moment in the companies’ growth. The position will help shape how both brands appear across every audience touchpoint.

This is a broad creative leadership role spanning brand strategy, brand architecture, positioning, visual identity, campaign creation, and activation. The Creative Director will work closely with Growth Marketing, Content, Product, and executive leadership to ensure the brands are expressed consistently and thoughtfully across the business. Reporting to the VP of Marketing and Content, this leader will manage a small but high-impact creative function that influences how the brands are seen strategically, visually, and culturally.

What the Role Combines

• Strategy: define brand positioning and brand architecture.
• Craft: provide strong creative leadership and cultural sensitivity, producing distinctive, emotionally engaging work and directing photographers, designers, and other collaborators.
• Systems: translate judgment into clear principles, direction, and repeatable systems so quality can scale across the team, supported by strong design systems and AI-enabled workflows.

This is a chance to make a major impact on how leading art-world brands communicate with collectors, galleries, artists, and the wider cultural community.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide the development of Artsy and Artnet’s brand and visual identity across all customer touchpoints, with a focus on consistency, clarity, and creative distinction.
• Create scalable creative systems and design frameworks that support efficient delivery across channels and teams.
• Shape the wider brand strategy, including positioning, storytelling, and visual expression.
• Partner with Product, Growth Marketing, and Content teams to bring the brand to life in coordinated and collaborative ways.
• Lead a compact creative team by setting priorities, clarifying direction, establishing ways of working, planning resources, and protecting quality.
• Build scalable creative processes, design frameworks, and AI-supported workflows that help the team and the wider organization move with clarity, brand consistency, and speed.
• Develop and mentor a small team of 1-2 brand designers while directing contractors, freelancers, and creative partners, and collaborating closely with Product Design.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to concept and plan integrated campaigns and programs across digital, print, video, social, and content channels.
• Partner with Product and Product Design to create work for websites, the app, email, ad campaigns, video, audio, in-person experiences, and more.

Candidate Profile

• Based in New York City and able to work onsite three days per week in a hybrid setup.
• Has deep experience leading brand and visual identity work for consumer-facing companies, agencies, or culturally relevant brands.
• Has worked both in-house and in agency or brand studio environments, bringing an understanding of how to own outcomes within a team setting.
• Can explain the thinking behind the work, not only the final output.
• Thinks in systems and can turn creative intuition into direction and frameworks that others can execute without losing craft.
• Comfortable using AI in the creative process and already incorporating AI tools, automation, and modular production into day-to-day work.
• Has led brand initiatives across the full lifecycle, from brand architecture and positioning to visual identity systems and campaigns across digital and physical/experiential formats.
• Communicates clearly and can influence cross-functional partners, align stakeholders, and bring teams together through storytelling and direction.
• Can collaborate with product partners to execute creative across multiple formats and platforms.
• Authorized to live and work in the United States.

Nice to Have

• Experience in art, fashion, marketplace, editorial, media, or a broader cultural environment.
• Prior in-house experience after agency work, especially at brand-led studios or agencies.
• Experience delivering memorable experiential or environmental campaigns with measurable results and strong cultural relevance.

Not the Right Fit If

• You prefer working alone without regular collaboration across teams.
• You mainly enjoy campaign execution and are not interested in broader brand systems, strategy, or organizational influence.
• You focus on strategy and team direction but do not want to be hands-on in making the work.

Success in the First 3-6 Months

Within the first 3 months:

• Build strong working relationships across Marketing, Product, Growth, and Leadership.
• Develop a clear understanding of the current brand landscape, including strengths, gaps, and opportunities.
• Start defining creative systems, workflows, and visual direction principles for the team.

Within the first 6 months:

• Deliver a refined, unified brand and visual direction across key customer touchpoints.
• Put scalable production processes in place that improve consistency and speed of execution.
• Establish credibility as a trusted creative and strategic partner across the company.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $175,000 to $220,000 per year. Compensation packages also include meaningful Artsy equity and competitive health benefits. Final pay will depend on relevant experience and the skills you bring to the team.

Benefits include flexible time off, a global hybrid work culture with most employees in NYC, London, or Berlin offices three days per week, and comprehensive healthcare and support options such as medical, dental, parental leave, short- and long-term disability, employee assistance with free mental health support, 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, HSA, and financial wellness resources. The company also offers professional development through mentoring, lunch and learns, regular training, 1:1 management, and open feedback. Employees can also take part in global programming such as happy hours, holiday parties, all-hands meetings, Artsy Salon, art-world event attendance, and other community-building activities.

Additional Information

Applications must be submitted through the company careers website; email submissions are not accepted.

Values and Inclusion

Artsy’s values center on curiosity and empathy for the art world, ownership of outcomes, openness and integrity, continuous transformation, and prioritizing impact over perfection. The company is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all qualified backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.