Creative Director
We are ExtraHop. We're on a mission to provide security teams with the intelligence they need to confront and stop advanced threats like supply chain attacks, zero day exploits, and ransomware attacks. Cyber attackers still have the advantage. We’re taking it back with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a sense of humor. Are you ready to help us reclaim the upper hand?
ExtraHop is seeking a multi-talented creative leader who is passionate about design and skilled at translating technical stories into compelling campaigns. Our ideal candidate would have experience working cross-functionally and collaborating to ensure campaigns implement our creative innovative vision, voice, and style. You must have strong experience in print and digital along with a range of mediums including social, integrated, and traditional media. This creative leader would be charged with helping to shape the way the industry defines and talks about network detection and response.
This candidate will own the creative strategy and direction of all graphic and website design, copy, video, animation, photography, promotional assets, and more behind our brand and owned properties. Results matter. In this role the candidate will be well versed at analyzing data to be able to turn findings into actionable strategies to further improve creative performance. This role requires that you can translate concepts easily to all stakeholders to sell ideas. Managing the company brand identity and narrative, alongside the content team, tone and design with a sharp sense of project management will be key. This role works closely with the rest of the organization to amplify and breakthrough in a crowded market.
Responsibilities:
- Evolve and ensure consistency and integrity behind our company's brand and brand guidelines.
- Lead all design and work closely with copywriters.
- Provide creative direction on brand-level video, web, and graphic design projects.
- Manage a production calendar and the team responsible for hitting those deadlines.
- Create and improve the company's creative team and its workflow to build a top-notch operation.
- Create a network of talent, including internal subject matter experts, agencies and freelancers and go-to influencers in our industry, format our content, and line edit.
- Collaborate with company leaders, marketing teammates, and other key stakeholders on key projects each quarter.
- Be seen as an expert, always coming to the table with a unique, informed POV
- Stay on top of best practices, trends and technology and bring innovative solutions to address challenges.
- Great communicator, both in conveying design best practices and project details/ideas across all levels of the company, including the executive team.
- Ability to balance between executive preference and strategic design goals.
- B2B enterprise technology. Cybersecurity/SaaS experience strongly preferred.
- Experience marketing in a B2B context with both channel partners and direct sales force
- Exceptional program management skills to drive results across multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to achieve results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, often on short deadlines.
- Supervise a cross-functional team of graphic designers, copywriters, social media experts, photographers/videographers, and project managers in the strategic development of messages and deliverables
- Present, or oversee presentation of final concepts, and obtain approvals for deliverables
Skills and Qualifications
- 7 years of related experience with 5+ years of creative direction in agency or corporate setting
- Years of experience creating marketing/advertising campaigns from developing vision and the message platform to overseeing production on time and budget
- Understanding and past experience creating integrated content across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, but also understand offline and print
- Proven experience with concept development
- Highly skilled with leading a team of creative talent
- Strong creative vision with an understanding of business objectives
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in marketing or business
- Prior experience with copywriting, design, or production
- Prior project management experience, with a focus on creative
$149,000- $198,000 + benefits+ options
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ABOUT EXTRAHOP
Cyberattackers have the advantage. ExtraHop is on a mission to help you take it back with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised. Our dynamic cyber defense platform, Reveal(x) 360, helps organizations detect and respond to advanced threats––before they compromise business operations. We apply cloud-scale AI to petabytes of traffic per day, performing line-rate decryption and behavioral analysis across all infrastructure, workloads, and data-in-flight. With complete visibility from ExtraHop, enterprises can detect malicious behavior, hunt advanced threats, and forensically investigate any incident with confidence.
ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team. In 2020, we’ve already been named a “Best Place to Work” by Inc., Computerworld, BuiltIn Seattle and Seattle Business Magazine, and we’ve been named to Wealthfront’s Career-Launching Companies list for the last four years. Forbes named ExtraHop to its 2020 AI 50 List, as well as the list of “20 Best Cybersecurity Startups to Watch.” In 2019 and 2020, JMP Securities put ExtraHop on its Elite 80 List as one of the most strategically positioned private companies in the cybersecurity industry. SC Media has named ExtraHop an Industry Innovator for enterprise network detection and response for the past two years.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with ExtraHop and the country where you work.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Honor System PTO and 9 Holidays (US only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
- Non-Commissioned positions are eligible to participate in annual discretionary bonus plan
- FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP where applicable
- Educational Reimbursement
- 401k with employer match or Pension where applicable
- Pet Insurance (US only)
- Parental Leave (US Only)
- Hybrid and Remote Work Model
*Candidates should note that the Company may modify reporting relationships, job titles and compensation, including commissions and benefits, from time to time at its sole discretion, as it deems necessary, with or without prior notice.
We are intentional about our culture, diversity, and inclusion, and we welcome everyone to come ready to participate in contributing to this truly unique environment. At ExtraHop, we believe that the best products, services, and companies are built by strong teams that include a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, ideas, and experiences. We are committed to supporting and enabling growth and opportunity for every employee at every level. This is the foundation of our success.
We are equally committed to equal employment opportunity, and it is foundational to how we recruit and hire our talented team. Employment is determined based upon capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including potential pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability , HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.
Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against nation-states, cyber criminals, and insider threats.
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