Creative Director at Flex

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team? About the Role We’re hiring a Head of Creative Studio to build and lead Flex’s in-house Creative Studio, a lean team responsible for taking the Flex brand to the next level through on-brand, high-impact creative across all of our marketing efforts. The Creative Studio serves Performance Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Brand, and Partner Marketing, producing work across a wide range of media including paid ads, website and landing pages, lifecycle templates, video, copy, partner materials, event design, and other high-visibility marketing touchpoints. At Flex, creativity is about earning trust, simplifying complexity, and helping people feel more in control of their financial lives. In this role, you’ll translate that philosophy into thoughtful design and storytelling, ensuring Flex shows up clearly, cohesively, and with high craft across every marketing surface. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that partners closely with Brand, Performance Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, and Partner Marketing. You’ll work with marketing and creative leaders to translate strategy into scalable ways of working that enable high-quality creative at speed while maintaining strong brand consistency. Given our stage, this role requires a player-coach mindset, someone who can set creative direction while remaining close to the work to drive impact quickly. This is a unique opportunity to build a creative studio from the ground up, operationalize a new brand, and help define how Flex shows up as we enter our next phase of growth. This is a hybrid position with on-site expectations of 3 days per week in our New York Headquarters or 2 days per week in our San Francisco Hub. For candidates outside of the NY/NJ/SF area, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program. What you’ll do • Build and lead Flex’s Creative Studio: Establish and lead a lean Creative Studio made up of copy, visual design, and video talent, setting a high bar for creative craft, speed, and collaboration. Define team roles and workflows that enable consistent, high-quality marketing creative at scale. • Set creative direction and standards: Define the creative point of view for Flex’s marketing surfaces, ensuring our work is emotionally resonant, visually cohesive, and grounded in deep empathy for our users. • Own creative execution and direction across paid and owned surfaces: Set the bar for concepting, design quality, and storytelling across performance marketing, brand initiatives, partner campaigns, website and landing pages, lifecycle templates, and internal marketing assets. Ensure all work is on brand, effective, and aligned to channel goals. • Operationalize Flex’s brand system: Partner closely with Brand and Reputation leadership to express Flex’s brand strategy and identity across channels in ways that advance specific campaign and channel goals while strengthening brand love and trust. • Develop and support a high-performing creative team: Coach and develop designers and creatives, helping them grow their craft, sharpen their thinking, and do the best work of their careers while fostering a culture of ownership, clarity, and continuous improvement. • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Brand, Performance, Lifecycle, PMM, Product Design, and external agencies to ensure alignment, avoid duplication, and deliver a seamless creative experience across Flex’s marketing ecosystem. Key qualifications • 10+ years of experience in creative leadership, brand design, or marketing creative roles, with at least 3 years leading or building teams in high-growth, consumer-focused environments. • Proven studio builder with experience building or scaling an in-house creative or brand studio, including defining operating models, workflows, and quality standards. • Creative taste and judgment with a demonstrated ability to evaluate creative work, give clear and constructive feedback, and maintain a high bar for craft while working at speed. • Brand and performance fluency with experience producing creative for both paid acquisition and high-traffic owned surfaces such as websites, landing pages, and lifecycle communications. • Operational rigor with experience designing systems and processes that enable fast, repeatable creative production without sacrificing quality or consistency. • Strong cross-functional influence with a proven ability to partner effectively with Brand, Growth, PMM, Product Design, and external agencies. Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, and compensation may vary depending on your primary work location. Work locations are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be commensurate with their experience, qualifications, and Flex’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks. • Tier 1 (NYC/SF/Seattle): $200,000—$250,000 USD • Tier 2(Austin, Washington D.C. Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta: $180,000—$225,000 USD • Tier 3 (SLC/All Other States): $170,000—$212,500 USD Life at Flex: We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace. We offer many employee benefits & perks. For full-time U.S based positions we offer: • Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1 • Company equity • 401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026) • Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays • Parental leave • Flex Cares Program • Free Flex subscription For full time non-US employees, we offer • Competitive compensation + company equity • Unlimited PTO