Overview
Creative Director Jobs in United States at Nathan James
Nathan James is seeking a Creative Director to own the creative strategy and execution for all video ads, commercials, and static assets at Nathan James. You'll lead storytelling that captures our brand essence: affordable, stylish, minimalist-to-mid-century modern furniture that elevates everyday living with clean lines, timeless design, and effortless appeal. Your work will drive attention, emotional connection, and conversions for our direct-to-consumer audience.
People-first company, design-first home.
We are a design-first, home furnishing company focused on designing beautiful pieces at honest prices. We blend emerging trends with timeless values that empower people to bring their dream homes to life. We also value our customers' time and energy by providing world class customer service to every person who interacts with our company. We exclusively sell digitally.
Because we are a people-first company, we understood the importance of being fully distributed from the beginning. Our fully remote team prioritizes collaboration, thoughtful work, and a people-first approach that values personal and professional happiness. Taking this approach helps our teammates avoid compromising who they are or their values in pursuit of a career.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Since 2016, Nathan James has focused on designing furniture that allows customers to save thousands of dollars while creating their dream home. We built the business through online retail channels and have since shifted our focus to our direct to consumer model, owning the end-to-end experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop direct response video and static creative ads that showcase our furniture in lifestyle settings. Content is primarily advertised on Meta with YouTube and CTV on the horizon.
- Test a high volume of assets per month, balancing concept diversity with quality.
- Lead the development and execution of integrated campaigns from creative brief to final asset. You’ll ensure each campaign has a clear objective, a distinct point of view, and measurable outcomes.
- Use historic ad performance to inform future strategy and iterations.
- Deeply understand and amplify Nathan James’ story through compelling narratives that resonate with modern homeowners and apartment dwellers.
- Collaborate with the Merchandising team to ensure a seamless customer journey.
- Manage external production partners, including photographers, videographers, editors, agencies, and creators to deliver work on time and on budget.
- Leverage your existing network of trusted freelancers and agencies to move quickly from concept to final assets.
- Establish and maintain a robust system for all creative asset creation and storage to ensure on-time delivery and easy tracking.
- Develop and own a portfolio of repeatable content franchises that build brand recognition over time.
Collectively, these responsibilities will drive measurable improvements in advertising performance (ROAS), brand awareness, and long-term loyalty, positioning Nathan James as the defining brand for the design-forward, value-conscious homeowner.
ABOUT US:
We appreciate that time is our most valuable resource. That’s why, in everything we do, we focus on what truly matters. We do this by removing processes and ideologies that hinder our work, designing benefits that nurture a healthy relationship with work, and upholding our operating values to guide us. Through these frameworks, we build a resilient organization.
We also understand working for Nathan James isn’t the only function of our lives, and we don’t expect that! We’ve found that a team member who will be happy and fulfilled as a remote team member at Nathan James is someone who values their personal life and identity outside of work. That’s why we don’t create mandatory team hangouts or events.
We’ve done our best work when we focus on what we’re solving for and what’s true, so we don’t create barriers or false expectations that distract us from our mission. We also don’t set unreasonable working hours, deadlines, or goals. We create with calm, “slow is smooth and smooth is fast”.
Check out Glassdoor to hear what the team has to say about working at Nathan James.
ABOUT YOU:
You’re a seasoned Creative Director with a proven ability to craft scroll-stopping, high-converting creative for direct-to-consumer brands. You live and breathe visual storytelling, especially for lifestyle and home categories. You have a sharp instinct for what makes people stop, feel, and buy. You excel at managing external talent while owning the full creative process from concept to final asset. Most importantly, you’re excited to help tell the Nathan James story: quality, stylish design made accessible for real homes and real life.
- 5+ years of experience as a Creative Director (or role equivalent), with a standout portfolio in short-form video and static ads as well as video commercials.
- Strong background in a DTC furniture or home brand doing $100M+ in annual revenue.
- Expert at leading video production and static shoots, with deep knowledge of social-first trends (Reels, TikTok, Meta, etc.) and direct-response advertising principles.
- You’re passionate about home design and making beautiful, attainable furniture feel inspiring and desirable.
- You bring an established network of top-tier photographers, videographers, editors, and production partners so you can hit the ground running and deliver fast without needing an in-house team.
- Data-driven yet creatively fearless: you test, iterate, and optimize relentlessly to improve attention, engagement, and sales.
- You’re comfortable using digital tools such as Airtable, Google Workspace, Slack and are eager to learn and utilize the latest AI tools if outputs meet high standards.
- Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or Canva. You don't need to be a production designer, but you need to be fluent enough to build, review, and adjust creative assets without relying on outside help.
- You're highly organized and can deliver assets on time, on budget, and on brief.
- You thrive working in a lean team and not afraid to get your hands dirty.
- Able to travel across North America to shoot as needed.
You have high standards, you’ve seen great, and want to implement great. You manage yourself well, hold yourself to a high standard, and understand how your work and energy affect the people around you.
You’ll report to the VP of Sales & Marketing and join a lean marketing team to maximize creative output and performance.
For this role, we do require that your normal workday has at least 4 hours overlap with EST timezone without impinging on your personal/family life. Our salaries are competitive for similar roles based in the country you will be working from.
This is a remote role since we are a remote company. With the freedom and flexibility of a remote role comes the luxury to work in whichever manner helps you perform your best! However, this ideal is best coupled with an individual who has a keen ability to self-regulate and self-manage.
Our team works from home offices, co-working spaces, and coffee shops. You’ll find us in places that foster effective writing, self-discipline, and comfort with open communication.
If everything you’ve read so far is exciting you in a very natural and not forced way, then you are the type of person to be a key contributor to innovation and scaling a business like Nathan James!
BENEFITS & PERKS:
Our benefits are all aimed at supporting a life well lived both at work and away from work.
With these benefits, we want and expect you to take vacations, spend time with your family, and be conscious of your personal wellness.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit an application here that speaks directly to this position. A cover letter is not required, but those that clearly demonstrate how Nathan James would be a great fit for you and how you would be a great fit for us will be given full attention and are highly appreciated.
We expect to take two weeks to review all applications. If you don’t hear from us by then, we have decided to move forward with other candidates.
If we choose to move forward to the next steps in the interview process, you’ll hear from us and advance to a brief video interview and then on to a work sample, where you’ll get a chance to see the types of challenges you would be solving in this role. Our interviews are all remote by video chat, with your future colleagues.
We aim to make an offer and have this person start by August 14.
We appreciate your consideration in having Nathan James be part of your career.
Our open conversation starts with this post. We look forward to hearing from you.
Title: Creative Director
Company: Nathan James
Location: United States
Category:
