{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c6ff8a949fd2b34b7c48316c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6ff8a949fd2b34b7c48316c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6ff8a949fd2b34b7c48316c","title":"CSS Task Lead","description":"Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.\n\nHeadquartered in Washington, DC’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation’s most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.\n\nBarbaricum is seeking an experienced Content and Creative Director to lead content and creative services under the Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) Outreach and Digital Enterprise Services (MODES) contract. You will ensure creative strategy, content production, and engagement products align with MC&FP brand, messaging, outreach, and mission objectives, enhancing the DoD’s ability to inform and support the global military community.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nLead content and creative services for MC&FP outreach, engagement, strategic communications, and digital enterprise initiatives.\n\nDevelop and execute creative strategies that align with MC&FP brand, messaging, engagement objectives, and audience needs.\n\nDirect the production of visual, multimedia, interactive, digital, print, and social media content across multiple platforms.\n\nLead and manage creative personnel, including graphic design, copywriting, multimedia, web, and content production professionals.\n\nOversee creative concepts, campaign development, content calendars, brand campaigns, and production workflows from planning through delivery.\n\nCollaborate with program leadership, executives, government stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define deadlines, deliverables, risks, and content goals.\n\nReview and approve creative concepts, designs, copy, multimedia products, and campaign materials for quality, consistency, effectiveness, and compliance with brand standards.\n\nManage creative project timelines, workload priorities, production risks, and creative budgets to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.\n\nUse data, analytics, audience insights, and campaign performance metrics to assess content effectiveness and inform future creative decisions.\n\nRecruit, mentor, train, and develop team leads and creative staff while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and mission-focused work environment.\n\nRequired Skills\n\nExpert knowledge of creative direction, brand development, content strategy, campaign execution, and multichannel marketing concepts.\n\nStrong understanding of strategic communications, outreach, community engagement, and audience-centered content development.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead creative teams and supervise high-quality work across digital, print, social, multimedia, and interactive platforms.\n\nAbility to translate executive direction, client requirements, mission objectives, and audience needs into creative strategies and actionable production plans.\n\nExcellent communication, briefing, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present timelines, budgets, risks, and recommendations to executives and clients.\n\nProficiency with creative tools and production environments such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and comparable content development platforms.\n\nStrong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, deliverables, and production workflows simultaneously.\n\nAbility to maintain brand consistency, quality control, accessibility, and compliance across all creative products and communication channels.\n\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and performance metrics to optimize creative campaigns and content products.\n\nAbility to think creatively, solve complex content and engagement challenges, and provide innovative recommendations in a federal mission environment.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or a related field.\n\nMaster’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.\n\n10+ years of experience in creative services, content strategy, strategic communications, marketing, digital media, or related roles.\n\n5+ years of experience in management, supervisory, creative director, or senior creative leadership position.\n\nStrong portfolio demonstrating creative strategy, visual design, multimedia content, campaign development, and cross-platform content execution.\n\nProven record of developing and executing successful creative strategies, brand campaigns, and content products for complex organizations or mission-driven environments.\n\nExperience supporting federal, defense, military community, public sector, or large-scale enterprise communications environments is preferred.\n\nExperience managing creative budgets, production schedules, staff development, vendor coordination, and executive-level client communications.\n\nDoD Secret Security Clearance.\n\nEEO Commitment\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Barbaricum","rawCompany":"barbaricum","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-06-23T03:20:12.319Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-2011.00","title":"Advertising and Promotions Managers","slug":"advertising-and-promotions-managers"},{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"},{"code":"27-1011.00","title":"Art Directors","slug":"art-directors"}],"industries":[{"code":"541810","title":"Advertising Agencies","slug":"advertising-agencies"},{"code":"541890","title":"Other Services Related to Advertising","slug":"other-services-related-to-advertising"},{"code":"928110","title":"National Security","slug":"national-security"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"CSS Task Lead","description":"Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.\n\nHeadquartered in Washington, DC’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation’s most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.\n\nBarbaricum is seeking an experienced Content and Creative Director to lead content and creative services under the Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) Outreach and Digital Enterprise Services (MODES) contract. You will ensure creative strategy, content production, and engagement products align with MC&FP brand, messaging, outreach, and mission objectives, enhancing the DoD’s ability to inform and support the global military community.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nLead content and creative services for MC&FP outreach, engagement, strategic communications, and digital enterprise initiatives.\n\nDevelop and execute creative strategies that align with MC&FP brand, messaging, engagement objectives, and audience needs.\n\nDirect the production of visual, multimedia, interactive, digital, print, and social media content across multiple platforms.\n\nLead and manage creative personnel, including graphic design, copywriting, multimedia, web, and content production professionals.\n\nOversee creative concepts, campaign development, content calendars, brand campaigns, and production workflows from planning through delivery.\n\nCollaborate with program leadership, executives, government stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to define deadlines, deliverables, risks, and content goals.\n\nReview and approve creative concepts, designs, copy, multimedia products, and campaign materials for quality, consistency, effectiveness, and compliance with brand standards.\n\nManage creative project timelines, workload priorities, production risks, and creative budgets to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.\n\nUse data, analytics, audience insights, and campaign performance metrics to assess content effectiveness and inform future creative decisions.\n\nRecruit, mentor, train, and develop team leads and creative staff while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and mission-focused work environment.\n\nRequired Skills\n\nExpert knowledge of creative direction, brand development, content strategy, campaign execution, and multichannel marketing concepts.\n\nStrong understanding of strategic communications, outreach, community engagement, and audience-centered content development.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead creative teams and supervise high-quality work across digital, print, social, multimedia, and interactive platforms.\n\nAbility to translate executive direction, client requirements, mission objectives, and audience needs into creative strategies and actionable production plans.\n\nExcellent communication, briefing, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present timelines, budgets, risks, and recommendations to executives and clients.\n\nProficiency with creative tools and production environments such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and comparable content development platforms.\n\nStrong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, deliverables, and production workflows simultaneously.\n\nAbility to maintain brand consistency, quality control, accessibility, and compliance across all creative products and communication channels.\n\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and performance metrics to optimize creative campaigns and content products.\n\nAbility to think creatively, solve complex content and engagement challenges, and provide innovative recommendations in a federal mission environment.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or a related field.\n\nMaster’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.\n\n10+ years of experience in creative services, content strategy, strategic communications, marketing, digital media, or related roles.\n\n5+ years of experience in management, supervisory, creative director, or senior creative leadership position.\n\nStrong portfolio demonstrating creative strategy, visual design, multimedia content, campaign development, and cross-platform content execution.\n\nProven record of developing and executing successful creative strategies, brand campaigns, and content products for complex organizations or mission-driven environments.\n\nExperience supporting federal, defense, military community, public sector, or large-scale enterprise communications environments is preferred.\n\nExperience managing creative budgets, production schedules, staff development, vendor coordination, and executive-level client communications.\n\nDoD Secret Security Clearance.\n\nEEO Commitment\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-06-23T03:20:12.319Z","dateModified":"2026-06-23T03:20:12.319Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Barbaricum","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Washington","addressRegion":"DC","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"c6ff8a949fd2b34b7c48316c"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c6ff8a949fd2b34b7c48316c"}}