Creative Director

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.</p> <p>Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!<br><br>We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</p></div><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>We’re hiring our first Creative Director to define and elevate creative quality across brand, marketing, and key product-facing communications. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, working closely with marketing, product, engineering, and leadership. You’ll evolve our brand, establish systems, and raise the bar to ensure creative output is strategic, compelling, and polished.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Define and evolve creative systems, including brand guidelines and documentation that teams can actually use</li> <li>Lead concept development for key initiatives, launches, and campaigns</li> <li>Review and critique work across disciplines, providing clear, actionable feedback grounded in craft and intent</li> <li>Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure creative decisions align with technical constraints and opportunities</li> <li>Help us mature our creative process without slowing us down</li> <li>Translate abstract strategy into concrete artifacts: interfaces, narratives, layouts, motion, and systems</li> <li>Establish creative workflows and review practices that balance speed, quality, and rigor<br><br></li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Creative leadership taste</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Exceptional visual and narrative sensibility, with the ability to articulate <em>why</em> work succeeds or fails</li> <li>Proven ability to set and maintain high creative standards across brand and marketing</li> <li>Experience leading creative work through ambiguity and growth, balancing experimentation with consistency</li> <li>Confidence giving direct, constructive feedback to peers and cross-functional partners<br><br></li> </ul> <h3><strong>Technical understanding systems thinking</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience building scalable creative systems (brand guidelines, visual libraries, asset frameworks)</li> <li>Understanding of enterprise communication requirements: s ... (truncated, view full listing at source)