Head of Creative

About Outlier Ventures**

Outlier Ventures is a dedicated Web 3 accelerator founded in 2014 that works with startups at various stages of their lifecycle from pre-seed / seed (via Base Camp) to later stage about to launch (or live) token networks specialising in a New Data Economy, NFTs, and DeFi bringing together a network of 1,000 of the world’s leading web 3 founders, protocols, VCs to mentor, and invest.

About the role

We are looking for a talented Head of Creative (Creative Director / Design Director) to lead our company’s creative direction. The successful candidate must possess excellent leadership qualities, with the ability to maximise the talents of their team. As the Head of Creative, you will lead the Outlier Ventures design team and also create digital experiences in the metaverse. We are looking for someone that is creative, dedicated, and possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills. The Head of Creative will work closely with Des Martin (Outlier CMO).

The role is remote, but a successful candidate will need to work UK office hours.

The position is full-time.

What you’ll be doing

• Demonstrate creative leadership: You will challenge, influence, and deliver at a senior level the Artistic Direction of the Outlier brand, bringing ideas, inspiration, and creative thinking.
• Deliver: Manage internal designers and external creative partners to ensure the team achieves project goals, meets the highest quality standards, and delivers on time.
• Develop: Coach designers in the creative team, to create an environment for them to learn and grow.
• Step up: Increase design quality by building our design system, defining standards, improving them, and training your teammates to use them.
• Collaborate: Work closely with Outlier teams to deliver meaningful projects and results.
• Recruit: Hire new team members to help the design team grow as fast as the company
• Stand out: Make the design team shine outside the company: write blog posts, organise and speak at conferences, represent the company at events to make Outlier Ventures a design reference in the industry.

Requirements

• Experience: You have at least 10+ years of experience with a proven track record of designing large-scale brands
• Leadership skills: You are motivated to grow in terms of management and have demonstrated your ability to develop people by leading managers and mentoring senior designers.
• Communication skills: You are able to pitch, convince and collaborate with high-level stakeholders.
• Mastery: You possess a strong design acumen and can guide other teams in the use of a design system and brand foundations.
• Make an impact: You want to design a brand that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment.
• Continuous improvement: You thrive to get better every day even if it means learning from your own mistakes.
• Languages: You are fluent in English. Outlier has global reach so additional languages are a plus.

Package

Package is subject to relevant experience. It will bias towards performance related bonuses, including the opportunity to invest directly into token projects on the same terms as the Outlier Ventures partnership.

What we can offer you*

• Exposure to some of the most exciting businesses in the web 3.0 and blockchain space.
• The ability to work with a broad variety of stakeholders around the world.
• Full autonomy in your role and the opportunity to explore any areas of interest should it meet the vision of the business.
• Private medical insurance.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to invest directly into token projects on the same terms as the Outlier Ventures partnership

*Availability subject to specific circumstances.