No pay postedOct 23
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Creative Director jobs.
83 roles open across 34 companies - closed listings pulled, and pay shown exactly as the employer posted it. Apply to any of them with one LandEarly profile, tailored per posting.
- Boards re-read hourly
- Base pay shown where stated
- Closed roles removed
Open creative director roles
Live83
5 posted this week · 34 companies hiring
Posted todayOver 60 days old
How old the open roles are, not how many get posted - our board coverage has grown over the last year, so a week-by-week series would measure us rather than the market. Snapshot taken October 2026.
83 open creative director roles across 34 companies, with 5 posted this week. Posted base pay runs $164k–$189k across the middle half. Top hiring: Monks, VML, AKQA.
The board
Filter to the seat you’d actually take.
Level sets the scope and the pay band; work model decides whether you’re eligible at all. Both are on every card, so you can rule roles out before opening a single description.
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Mercury · Senior · Greenhouse
RemoteSan Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
No pay postedOct 15
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Every open creative director role we track is on this page - nothing is held back behind a sign-up. The city chips read the employer’s own location line; a listing that names no city we can resolve stays searchable but sits out of them.
Open to remote only? 11 of the 20 creative director listings that publish a work model came back remote-first, and 6 more are hybrid. The other 63 say nothing either way - that field is one only some boards publish.
Posted pay only - no estimates
What 23 of these listings actually printed.
Every figure here comes from a live posting with a stated annual base range. Nothing is modelled, inferred, or averaged in from a survey - which is also why the sample is smaller than the board.
Base salary distribution
Count of listings by posted base midpoint, on the same axis the rungs beside it are drawn against.
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$100k$131k$163k$194k$225k$256k$288k$319k
The $163k–$194k band alone holds 13 of the 23 priced listings.
What each rung pays
The middle 50% of posted base at each level, and how many listings that band is drawn from.
Senior17$160k–$180k
Executive6$187k–$228k
$164k
25th pct
$178k
Median
$189k
75th pct
2 of the 4 levels on this board sit out - fewer than 5 of their listings state a range, and a band drawn off two postings reads like the same fact as one drawn off forty.
By city
Where the openings actually are.
Every city with at least five open creative director roles, each its own board. Counts are what that page holds right now.
By country
Hiring beyond the US.
Every country with at least five open creative director roles, each its own board. Counts are what that page holds right now.
Same role, different question.
What it pays, where it's remote, and how the whole field is trending.
Creative Director salary breakdown
Percentiles by level and metro, with the sample size behind every number and a note where it is thin.
Remote creative director jobsThe 11 postings that came back remote-first, with the geography each employer will actually hire in kept on the card.
Design job marketHiring volume, top employers and pay direction across every role in the field.
Questions
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About Creative Director roles
The Creative Director job market currently shows 83 open positions across 33 hiring companies, based on available posting data. With 6 new roles posted this week, hiring activity appears to be ongoing rather than seasonal or static. Compensation data drawn from posted listings shows a median salary of $178,750, with a 25th percentile of $164,375 and a 75th percentile of $193,125, indicating a relatively narrow spread in disclosed pay for this role. The top hiring companies based on current postings include Monks, VML, OpenAI, AKQA, and Ogilvy, suggesting that both established creative and advertising agencies alongside technology-oriented organizations are actively recruiting for Creative Director talent. The presence of agencies like Ogilvy, VML, and AKQA alongside a technology company such as OpenAI may reflect a market where creative leadership is sought across varied industry contexts, though the available data does not specify role requirements or distinctions between these employers' needs. With 33 distinct companies hiring across 83 roles, the market shows multiple employers competing for talent rather than concentration within a small number of firms. The ratio of weekly postings (6) to total open roles (83) suggests a gradual rather than rapid influx of new opportunities, based on the snapshot of current data. Candidates evaluating opportunities in this space can reference the salary percentiles to benchmark compensation expectations, noting that the interquartile range spans from $164,375 to $193,125. Overall, the data points to an active but measured hiring environment for Creative Directors, with a defined set of companies currently representing the most visible demand according to available postings.
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Related roles
Adjacent feeds, filtered the same way.
Creative Director candidates land these too - each one its own live board across every company hiring. Roles with nothing open today are still listed, at zero rather than hidden.