{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"0a1e3b51c99e2e05afa4c879","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0a1e3b51c99e2e05afa4c879","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0a1e3b51c99e2e05afa4c879","title":"Associate Creative Director, Design","description":"Associate Creative Director, Design\nUnited States\nAbout Us\nAt SimplePractice, we are improving access to quality care by equipping health and wellness clinicians with all the tools they need to thrive in private practice.\nMore than 250,000 providers trust SimplePractice to build their business through our industry-leading software with powerful tools that simplify every part of practice management. From admin work to clinical care, our suite of innovative solutions work together to reduce administrative burden—empowering solo and small group practitioners to thrive alongside their clients.\nAward-winning and people-first, SimplePractice is shaping the future of health tech. Recognized by MedTech Breakthrough, the Digital Health Awards, and BuiltIn's Best Places to Work.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for an Associate Creative Director, Design to help lead the next chapter of the SimplePractice brand. Reporting to the Head of Creative & Creative Director, you'll partner across Brand, Growth, Web, Product Marketing, and Copy & Content Strategy to concept and launch integrated campaigns that strengthen our brand, drive business impact, and elevate our creative standards.\nAs a member of the Creative Leadership Team, you'll work alongside your ACD peers to shape our creative vision, raise the bar for craft, mentor designers, and help define how our team operates and grows. You'll play a key role in evolving our creative organization by championing AI-enabled ways of working, advancing our design systems, and helping build a high-performing, future-ready team.\nThis is a hands-on creative leadership role for someone with exceptional taste, a systems-thinking mindset, and a passion for making great work. You'll be equally comfortable developing breakthrough campaign concepts, art directing productions, designing alongside the team, and coaching designers to do the best work of their careers.\nResponsibilities\nLead creative direction and visual design for integrated brand campaigns across product marketing, paid media, lifecycle, social, video, events, and emerging channels.\nPartner with the Creative Director, ACD Copy & Content Strategy, Growth, Product Marketing, and cross-functional teams to develop breakthrough campaign concepts that strengthen the brand and drive measurable business outcomes.\nCreate emotionally resonant, strategically grounded work that builds brand awareness, deepens customer connection, and delivers against business objectives.\nRemain a hands-on creative leader by concepting, designing, prototyping, and art directing alongside the team, setting the standard for creative excellence through both execution and leadership.\nHelp drive the evolution of the creative organization into AI-enabled workflows, scaling speed and experimentation while maintaining brand and creative quality.\nRaise the creative bar across the organization through exceptional design, art direction, creative feedback, and hands-on leadership.\nMentor and develop designers through coaching, performance management, career development, and creative direction while fostering a culture of high creative standards, continuous learning, collaboration, and experimentation.\nPartner with Creative Leadership on team planning, hiring, onboarding, resource allocation, and workload prioritization to build a high-performing team.\nHelp shape team culture, creative standards, processes, and the long-term evolution of the Creative organization.\nBuild scalable campaign design systems, templates, and creative frameworks that enable consistency while encouraging flexibility.\nMaintain and evolve the SimplePractice visual identity across channels, ensuring every execution feels fresh, cohesive, and distinctive.\nLead art direction for photography, illustration, motion, and video productions, including on-set creative direction with internal teams and external production partners.\nCollaborate closely with Web, Copy & Content Strategy, Growth, and Product Marketing to create seamless, integrated customer experiences across every touchpoint.\nStay at the forefront of design, advertising, AI, and visual culture, bringing fresh ideas, inspiration, emerging technologies, and best practices back to the team.\nDesired Skills & Experience\n10–14 years of experience in brand design, art direction, advertising, or integrated creative, either agency-side, in-house, or both.\nAn exceptional portfolio that demonstrates outstanding creative taste across integrated campaigns, visual identity systems, digital design, and art direction.\nStrong conceptual thinker with experience developing integrated campaign ideas and the ability to balance creative leadership with hands-on design execution.\nAbility to connect creative thinking with business outcomes, developing work that builds brand awareness, drives engagement, and supports growth.\nDeep understanding of typography, layout, storytelling, visual systems, and contemporary design.\nExperience building and evolving scalable brand design systems.\nAI-forward in your approach to design, with experience leveraging AI-enabled workflows to accelerate ideation, iteration, and production while maintaining exceptional creative quality and brand consistency. You know where automation adds value and where human judgment and craft are essential.\nExperience leading creative on set for brand photography and video productions, partnering with photographers, directors, talent, and production teams to bring creative concepts to life.\nExperience leading, mentoring, and inspiring designers through thoughtful feedback, coaching, and creative direction while fostering a culture of high creative standards, continuous learning, collaboration, and experimentation.\nHighly proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern creative workflows.\nStrong understanding of digital marketing channels and platform-specific design best practices.\nExcellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build trust, articulate creative rationale, and influence cross-functional partners and stakeholders.\nStrong organizational skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality work across multiple projects and priorities.\nMotion design, photography, or video art direction experience strongly preferred.\nBenefits\nWe offer a competitive benefits program including:\nMedical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance\n401(k) plan with company match\nFlexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays\nMental health resources\nPaid parental leave & Backup Care\nTuition reimbursement\nEmployee Resource Groups (ERGs)\nCalifornia Job Applicant Privacy Notice\nThank you for your interest in opportunities at SimplePractice LLC (“SimplePractice” or “us” or “we” or “our”). Please note that when you submit your resume or application materials to us for employment purposes, you are subject to the SimplePractice California Job Applicant Privacy Notice.\nFor more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@simplepractice.com.\nNotice to Candidates\nSimplePractice has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team. We do not have any affiliation or connection to these situations and only post open roles on our official Careers page (simplepractice.com/careers) and reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages.\nAll official SimplePractice recruitment emails will be sent from the domains @simplepractice.com, no-reply@greenhouse.io or no‑reply@linkedin.com email addresses.\nExamples of fraudulent domains include careers-simplepractice.com, simplepractices.com, and simplepractice.careers.\nPlease note that SimplePractice will never ask candidates or new hires for money or payment of any kind at any stage of the recruitment or onboarding process.\nBase salary is one component of total compensation. Employees may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commission. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay.\nThe amount below represents the expected annual base compensation range for this job requisition. 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From admin work to clinical care, our suite of innovative solutions work together to reduce administrative burden—empowering solo and small group practitioners to thrive alongside their clients.\nAward-winning and people-first, SimplePractice is shaping the future of health tech. Recognized by MedTech Breakthrough, the Digital Health Awards, and BuiltIn's Best Places to Work.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for an Associate Creative Director, Design to help lead the next chapter of the SimplePractice brand. Reporting to the Head of Creative & Creative Director, you'll partner across Brand, Growth, Web, Product Marketing, and Copy & Content Strategy to concept and launch integrated campaigns that strengthen our brand, drive business impact, and elevate our creative standards.\nAs a member of the Creative Leadership Team, you'll work alongside your ACD peers to shape our creative vision, raise the bar for craft, mentor designers, and help define how our team operates and grows. 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You know where automation adds value and where human judgment and craft are essential.\nExperience leading creative on set for brand photography and video productions, partnering with photographers, directors, talent, and production teams to bring creative concepts to life.\nExperience leading, mentoring, and inspiring designers through thoughtful feedback, coaching, and creative direction while fostering a culture of high creative standards, continuous learning, collaboration, and experimentation.\nHighly proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern creative workflows.\nStrong understanding of digital marketing channels and platform-specific design best practices.\nExcellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build trust, articulate creative rationale, and influence cross-functional partners and stakeholders.\nStrong organizational skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality work across multiple projects and priorities.\nMotion design, photography, or video art direction experience strongly preferred.\nBenefits\nWe offer a competitive benefits program including:\nMedical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance\n401(k) plan with company match\nFlexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays\nMental health resources\nPaid parental leave & Backup Care\nTuition reimbursement\nEmployee Resource Groups (ERGs)\nCalifornia Job Applicant Privacy Notice\nThank you for your interest in opportunities at SimplePractice LLC (“SimplePractice” or “us” or “we” or “our”). Please note that when you submit your resume or application materials to us for employment purposes, you are subject to the SimplePractice California Job Applicant Privacy Notice.\nFor more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@simplepractice.com.\nNotice to Candidates\nSimplePractice has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team. We do not have any affiliation or connection to these situations and only post open roles on our official Careers page (simplepractice.com/careers) and reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages.\nAll official SimplePractice recruitment emails will be sent from the domains @simplepractice.com, no-reply@greenhouse.io or no‑reply@linkedin.com email addresses.\nExamples of fraudulent domains include careers-simplepractice.com, simplepractices.com, and simplepractice.careers.\nPlease note that SimplePractice will never ask candidates or new hires for money or payment of any kind at any stage of the recruitment or onboarding process.\nBase salary is one component of total compensation. Employees may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commission. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay.\nThe amount below represents the expected annual base compensation range for this job requisition. 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