Creative Director, Moloco
$165.6-248.4k
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions.
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Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions.
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$165.6-248.4k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the scaling engine for the internet economy.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in art direction, team leadership, and preferably in-house tech experience is essential
- Deep AI tool usage for rapid prototyping is a must
- Strong art direction background with demonstrable making skills and craft expertise, experience directing shoots (photography, film, UGC), managing freelancers/agencies, building brand guidelines, and mentoring
- Creative team leadership & development with deep experience running creative teams with a bias toward doing rather than pure management. Proven record of mentoring creatives and elevating the work of a full team, not just individual execution
- In-house technology sector experience understanding the unique demands and pace of tech marketing
- Creative rigor and discipline - ability to bring structure to loose briefs and maintain high quality standards
- AI-powered rapid prototyping - using AI tools at the brief stage to move from "here's a brief" to "let's prototype a rough version in the first hour," making concepts tangible and reducing wasted cycles
- Campaign Concepting (Storyboarding, creative writing, visual narrative development): Experience shaping the story, framing the big idea, and connecting visuals to strategy
- Brand Stewardship: Experience leading distinctive brand asset creation, semiotics, and identity systems to ensure consistency and recognizability across campaigns and touch points
- Cross-Channel Execution: Social-first design, OOH, experiential, digital display, B2B creative who knows how ideas flex across every channel
- Core Design (Adobe Suite): Fluent in advanced workflows (retouching, typographic systems, layout, motion edits). Expected to mentor juniors and set standards of craft
- UX & Digital Design (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD): Leads modern campaign and product design (prototyping, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration)
- Motion & 3D (After Effects, Cinema4D/Blender, Spine, Rive): Motion is non-optional for campaigns and social. Should know how to direct 3D/motion assets and produce quick in-house tests
- AI & Rapid Prototyping (MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway, DALL.E, Adobe Firefly, Sora (video), Descript): Experience leveraging these tools to design workflows that speed creative cycles and visualize early ideas
- Collaboration & Systems (Notion, Miro, Asana/Jira, Slack, Google Workspace): Leverages these tools to run small studios, align agency partners, and make processes feel seamless
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Creative Director to lead our small in-house creative team and our dedicated external creative studio. This person will be the most senior creative leader in the marketing team and will be critical to bringing creative ideas and concepts to all marketing work
- The role will lead creative development across all marketing initiatives including campaigns, events, social, digital programs, and other marketing projects
- The Creative Director must know what good looks like and be able to do full creative conceptualization and hands-on execution
- They will be responsible for elevating our creative output, raising the bar of the team, and bringing visual consistency across all touchpoints
- Hands-on creative leadership - Leading from the front with actual work, not just managing. Rolling up sleeves to create and direct impactful creative work from idea to execution. Experience working in-house for an extraordinary brand
- Brand stewardship - Owning and evolving our identity and brand standards, driving for quality and visual consistency across all company outputs
- End-to-end creative development - Leading creative from initial concept through to memorable execution across diverse formats including campaigns, events, and experiential marketing
- Agency partner management - Sourcing and managing our small network of trusted global agency partners that help us deliver exceptional work
- Team mentorship and growth - Developing, mentoring, and challenging the creative team so they grow in skills, confidence, and enjoyment of their work. Creating a culture where people feel stretched, supported, and inspired
Our take
Moloco offers a cutting-edge platform that allows app developers and eCommerce marketplaces to fuel their growth through machine learning-driven advertising. Its suite of tools enables users to fine-tune campaigns, enhance user engagement, and broaden outreach, ultimately boosting profitability.
Positioned as the premier demand-side platform for ad performance across the open internet, Moloco has experienced substantial growth, securing significant funding and achieving Unicorn status in mid-2021. At the core of its Cloud DSP and Retail Media Platform lies a powerful ML engine leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs), facilitating automated, profitable, and scalable growth strategies for marketers.
Continuously evolving its flagship DSP with advanced features, Moloco consistently sets new benchmarks in ad spend. With expansion into retail media and MLaaS offerings, Moloco aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning capabilities for businesses of all sizes.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $191.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness: Competitive health (100% coverage for you), dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. In addition, enjoy membership to Calm, Headspace, Spring Health, as well as fitness and health reimbursements
- Professional development: $2,500 Learning and Development stipend annually to grow yourself professionally
- Food and snacks: Enjoy lunch on us. We bring lunch in for employees everyday, In addition, our kitchens are filled with healthy snacks and beverages for you to enjoy
- Paid parental leave: Our parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers have you covered when you welcome a new child into your family
- Unlimited vacation: We encourage team members to take time off to relax and recharge with our flexible paid time off policy. We also offer leave time for various reasons
- Financial benefits: We provide equity and generous retirement benefits that help you prepare for your future. In addition, home office setup and phone, internet and transportation reimbursements
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ikkjin Ahn
(CEO)Worked as a Software Engineer at O1 and Humanex, before spending 2 years at YouTube and 3 at Google.
David Sehyuk Park
(CIO)Previously a Software Engineer at Oracle.
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