Overview
ART DIRECTOR – HEAD OF VISUAL STORYTELLING Jobs in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands at Stieglitz
Company Description
Stieglitz is an Amsterdam-based fashion brand known for its bold design language, strong community and cultural energy.
We create collections for women who take up space without asking for permission. Bold pieces designed to be seen and remembered.
What started as an independent label has grown into a multi-channel brand, available through leading retailers and our own direct channels.
Now, we’re focused on what comes next: Building a global boutique streetwear brand that is impossible to ignore.
We are entering our next phase of growth: building a sharper, stronger and more scalable business with people who want to make an impact.
That takes strong product, disciplined execution and storytelling people actually care about.
The Role
We’re looking for a highly hands-on Art Director to create and shape the visual output of Stieglitz across every drop and campaign.
Someone who understands that great creative is not decoration. It creates desire, builds recognition and moves people to act.
You will lead how our drops come to life across campaign storytelling, video, social, e-mail and digital touchpoints.
You won’t just make things look better. You’ll make them matter more.
This is not a purely directing role. We are looking for someone who loves to create. Someone who can move fast, think visually and translate ideas into high-quality output on a daily basis.
You should feel just as comfortable building assets yourself as directing others when needed.
Physical-to-Digital Creativity
- We’re looking for someone with a strong creative foundation.
- We love working with creatives who make. People who paint, draw, experiment, build and explore ideas beyond the screen.
- You understand colour, composition, texture and visual storytelling, and know how to translate those skills into strong creative work across campaigns, social media, video, e-mail and digital channels.
- We’re looking for a creator, not just a content maker.
What you’ll do
Own the narrative behind every drop
- You shape the creative narrative for launches and campaigns.
- From first hook to final rollout, you know how to turn a collection into something people notice, talk about and want.
- You help translate collection energy into recognizable campaign worlds with clear visual and emotional direction. You help shape how Stieglitz looks, feels and is remembered.
- Through campaigns, content and creative systems, you contribute to the visual language of the brand and help evolve it over time.
Lead visual & digital storytelling
- You think beyond static assets.
- You know how to use video, motion, sequencing, pacing, channel-native storytelling and social-first formats to build momentum before, during and after launch.
- You understand how digital storytelling works across Instagram, TikTok, paid social, e-mail, website and launch moments.
Own how the brand shows up
- You are responsible for the creative consistency of all customer-facing channels, including social media feed & formats, e-mail design and visual direction, website campaign moments, paid creative assets and launch content across touchpoints.
- Everything should feel connected, distinctive and recognizable.
- You are able to translate campaign concepts into strong visual output across social, e-mail, paid and web.
- You understand how to build recognizable creative systems instead of isolated assets.
- This role is highly hands-on. You will be expected to create a large part of the visual output yourself.
- You can quickly move between concepting, designing, editing, feedback and production.
- You understand how to bring physical craftsmanship into digital output.
- You know how to translate handmade artwork, textures, painting, illustration, mixed media and experimentation into modern campaign assets, social storytelling and digital brand experiences.
- You are a creator first. Not just someone giving feedback from the sidelines.
Work with creatives & freelancers
- You work closely with internal team members, photographers, videographers, editors, freelancers and creators.
- You give direction, review output, guard quality and help elevate the overall creative level of the brand.
Build systems, not chaos
- You create repeatable frameworks, templates and smarter ways of working so the team can move faster without lowering standards.
- You help build a more scalable and recognizable creative operating system around every drop.
What we're looking for
- Strong creative judgement and visual taste
- Strong graphic design skills are essential
- Advanced in Adobe Creative Suite and/or Figma
Experience in:
- campaigns
- content
- digital storytelling
- visual branding
- creative production
Strong understanding of:
- typography
- layouts
- motion
- pacing
- social-first design
- digital culture
Experience with:
- paid creative production
- e-mail visual design
- campaign layouts
- motion/video editing basics
- social-first content creation
Experience with physical creative practices such as:
- painting
- illustration
- collage
- textile experimentation
- handmade artwork
- mixed media
is a strong plus.
You:
- move fast
- think visually
- take ownership naturally
- stay calm under pressure
- learn quickly
- have high standards without ego
- are able to independently create high-quality visual assets at speed.
You understand how strong creative output contributes to:
- attention
- recognition
- performance
- brand desire
One thing matters strongly to us:
Understands how to translate physical craftsmanship into digital storytelling.
Experience matters. But sharpness, instinct, taste and execution speed matter just as much.
We’d rather meet someone exceptional and hungry than someone comfortable and predictable.
You might be a fit if you
- See opportunities without being asked
- Care deeply about the quality of your work
- Like building, improving and figuring things out
- Stay calm when things move fast
- Want responsibility, not just tasks
- Know the difference between trends and timelessness
- Understand both aesthetics and effectiveness
What success looks like
- Every drop feels like a story worth noticing What success looks like
- Our social output becomes sharper and more recognizable
- E-mails feel visually stronger and more on-brand
- Campaigns create stronger momentum and attention
- The creative team moves faster with more clarity
- Creative output contributes to growth, not just aesthetics
- The brand becomes more visually distinctive over time
Why this role matters
This is one of the most important hires we can make.
Because in a crowded market, how we show up shapes how we grow.
We are not looking for a traditional creative manager.
We are looking for someone who creates constantly, thinks in systems and helps increase the creative speed and quality of the brand.
Someone who can bridge physical creativity and digital storytelling in a way that feels human, distinctive and impossible to ignore.
Apply
Send us:
- your portfolio
- relevant work
- social accounts
- campaigns
- anything that shows how you think creatively
We care about what you’ve done. We care even more about what you’re capable of building next.
Title: ART DIRECTOR – HEAD OF VISUAL STORYTELLING
Company: Stieglitz
Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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