Job Area:Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group > Marketing
General Summary:The OpportunityWe're seeking an Associate Creative Director to help develop creative platforms, integrated campaigns, and compelling brand stories across the Snapdragon portfolio.
This role combines creative leadership, campaign development, and cross-functional partnership. You'll work with strategists, marketers, designers, agencies, and production teams to transform business objectives into distinctive creative ideas that inspire audiences and drive impact.
The ideal candidate is a strong art-direction-led thinker with a point of view on visual storytelling, campaign development, and creative craft, helping shape ideas from initial concept through execution.
Key Responsibilities - Develop creative platforms and integrated campaign concepts across film, digital, social, experiential, retail, and other key Snapdragon touchpoints.
- Help shape the creative direction for Snapdragon and other strategic business priorities.
- Translate complex technology innovations into simple, compelling stories and customer benefits.
- Serve as a key creative partner to agencies, production companies, designers, directors, photographers, and other creative specialists, helping elevate the quality and consistency of campaign work.
- Provide creative leadership throughout campaign development, ensuring ideas remain strategically aligned and executionally strong.
- Scale campaign ideas across channels and touchpoints while maintaining a consistent and recognizable Snapdragon identity.
- Build and present persuasive creative recommendations.
- Maintain a high standard of creative quality across campaign extensions and executions.
Who We're Looking For - Proven experience developing integrated campaign platforms and brand campaigns.
- Strong conceptual thinker who can transform strategy, audience insights, and complex technologies into compelling, emotionally resonate creative ideas and experiences.
- Strong design foundation with hands-on design experience across digital, social, and integrated campaign development, paired with an understanding of how great design systems scale across channels and customer touchpoints.
- Experience leading cross-functional creative efforts and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
- Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and communication skills.
- Strong creative judgment with the ability to shape concepts, presentations, visual systems, and executions from development through launch.
- Curious about technology and culture, with a builder's mindset and a passion for solving creative challenges.
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
OR
Associate's degree or equivalent degree and 5+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
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High school Diploma or equivalent and 7+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master's = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.
Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in creative, advertising, brand marketing, or related disciplines.
- Portfolio demonstrating integrated campaign thinking, creative platform development, and exceptional work across multiple channels and formats.
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and related creative tools), with the ability to review, guide, and help shape creative work throughout the development process.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, agencies, and production partners.
* This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship. *** Position requires to be onsite in San Diego, 5 days a week. **Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $133,500.00 - $200,300.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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