About the roleWe're looking for an Art Director to help shape how Claude shows up in brand campaigns. You'll be a hands-on creative partner working closely with our brand and marketing teams, concepting and driving campaigns. We need someone who's built ideas from a brief, sold them in a room, and seen them through to production. You should be as comfortable sketching a concept on a whiteboard as you are directing a photographer on set or briefing an agency partner. Some campaigns you'll build and ship entirely in-house; others you'll run through external agencies, acting as the creative through-line between our team and theirs. Either way, you're hands-on and you own the outcome.
This role is deep in campaign craft, but broad beyond it. Within a campaign, you hold the bar for the work, down to the last detail. Beyond it, you think strategically about how the work radiates outward, builds the Claude brand as a whole, and connects across the business.
Responsibilities- Concept and art direct integrated campaigns for Claude from initial brief through final production across digital, video, and print.
- Direct photo and video shoots, working with directors, photographers, illustrators, animators, and production partners to bring campaigns to life.
- Flex between executing work in-house and directing it through agency partners. When we go external, you're the creative lead in the room, translating brand context, giving clear feedback, and keeping the work ours.
- Develop campaign visual systems with repeatable creative frameworks that give a campaign range while keeping it recognizably ours.
- Shape Claude's brand storytelling, finding compelling ways to turn product capabilities and user experiences into narratives people actually want to engage with.
- Serve as a creative partner to the brand and product marketing teams, bringing audience insight and brand strategy to life through bold creative concepts and sharp visual direction.
- Ensure brand consistency and raise the bar for quality across all Claude touchpoints.
You may be a good fit if you- 12+ years of experience with a portfolio rooted in campaign work, showing concept development, art direction, and execution across multiple channels and formats.
- Have worked both sides of the agency relationship. You can build a campaign with your own hands, and you can steer an external team without losing the thread.
- Have directed shoots and worked closely with photographers, illustrators, or production teams. You know how to get the best work out of collaborators.
- Can move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution without losing momentum. You're comfortable doing the work, not just directing it.
- Have experience building consumer-facing or product brand campaigns and understand how to make that work feel distinctive and human.
- Are drawn to brand-building work-shaping perception, building affinity, and raising the bar for how a company shows up in the market.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and can manage multiple campaigns and workstreams without sacrificing quality.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$305,000-$385,000 USD
LogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
