Creative Director (Part-Time) (OLD) in New York at Indagare Travel Inc

Engagement Overview

The Creative Director defines and stewards Indagare's brand identity, visual world, and creative standards across marketing channels. This engagement ensures coherence of taste, storytelling, and design while enabling a high-velocity creative pipeline supported by in-house resources. The Creative Director partners closely with the CMO, Editorial leadership, and fractional creative talent to build a distinctive brand and creative assets that reinforces Indagare's positioning, desirability, and authority in luxury travel.

What You'll Do

• Oversee the evolution and maintenance of Indagare’s brand guidelines, ensuring they remain relevant in a fast-evolving digital landscape.
• Lead the conceptualization and production of innovative campaigns and creative assets, with a focus on digital and social excellence
• Drive the creative strategy for groundbreaking marketing campaigns across all channels and mediums
• Work across the business to optimize resources, budgets, and schedules, ensuring the team delivers at the highest standard without compromising agility.
• Work collaboratively across the organization to drive innovation and creative excellence
• Communicate vision and feedback effectively—verbally, written, and visually—to stakeholders at all levels
• Additional creative responsibilities and projects upon request

Success Metrics

• Creative excellence - quality, consistency and velocity
• Brand aesthetic coherence
• Editorial and exec alignment on brand identity

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience in creative direction within digital, editorial, or luxury/lifestyle environments
• Sophisticated taste with the ability to translate brand strategy into visual and creative systems
• Experience building or stewarding a brand world across multiple channels (social, digital, email, campaigns, product)
• Ability to elevate creative without slowing down velocity; comfortable empowering in-house talent to execute
• Comfortable in high-context, cross-functional creative processes with multiple stakeholders (Product, Editorial and Marketing)
• Curiosity about travel, culture, design, and storytelling; a marketer’s instinct and a strategist's clarity
• Low-ego collaborator who balances conviction with openness; able to offer critique that moves work forward