Senior Creative Director
FranklinCovey is seeking a visionary and hands-on Senior Creative Director to lead the development of breakthrough creative that amplifies our brand and drives business results. This role will oversee a wide range of creative, content, community, and communications initiatives serving as both a strategic leader and a roll-up-your-sleeves creator. The ideal candidate is a customer-obsessed, design-thinking leader with deep expertise in storytelling, visual identity, and cross-functional collaboration.
You will guide and inspire a high-performing team in producing compelling content across traditional, digital, video, and social platforms, including web, email, sales collateral, presentations, and event materials. As we build a scalable internal creative agency, you'll implement proven systems and tools, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure our creative output is not only beautiful, but purposeful, measurable, and aligned with FranklinCovey's mission to enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere from the classroom to the boardroom.
Essential job functions include leading the strategy, development, and execution of a consistent, compelling visual brand identity across all channels; conceptualizing and producing a wide range of creative deliverables; serving as a strategic leader and hands-on creative; translating creative strategies into business results; inspiring and mentoring a multidisciplinary team; collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, sales, product, and partnership teams; building and maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external agencies; presenting creative concepts and campaign strategies to senior leadership; implementing scalable systems, processes, and tools to streamline creative operations; staying current with design trends, storytelling techniques, and emerging technologies; and demonstrating fluency in industry-standard tools.
Basic qualifications include a bachelor's or advanced degree in business, marketing, or related field and 9+ years of experience in creative leadership roles. Preferred skills and experience include demonstrated experience creating breakthrough storytelling and creative content for diverse audiences, a track record of developing and leading teams to develop world-class integrated creative campaigns, understanding of 360-degree, full-spectrum media, interdisciplinary creative, editorial, marketing, media, and production teams, a growth mindset, positive attitude, and demonstrated hunger for continuous learning, ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and consensus without clear authority, diplomatic savvy to build positive and productive partnerships inside and out, a track record of proactively establishing and following through on commitments, and common sense problem-solving skills.
Creative Director • Indianapolis, IN, US