Creative Director

Who We Are: 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 recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. 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. 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. Our Team Members: 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! 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. About the Role 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. What You’ll Do Define and evolve creative systems, including brand guidelines and documentation that teams can actually use Lead concept development for key initiatives, launches, and campaigns Review and critique work across disciplines, providing clear, actionable feedback grounded in craft and intent Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure creative decisions align with technical constraints and opportunities Help us mature our creative process without slowing us down Translate abstract strategy into concrete artifacts: interfaces, narratives, layouts, motion, and systems Establish creative workflows and review practices that balance speed, quality, and rigor What We’re Looking For Creative leadership & taste Exceptional visual and narrative sensibility, with the ability to articulate why work succeeds or fails Proven ability to set and maintain high creative standards across brand and marketing Experience leading creative work through ambiguity and growth, balancing experimentation with consistency Confidence giving direct, constructive feedback to peers and cross-functional partners Technical understanding & systems thinking Experience building scalable creative systems (brand guidelines, visual libraries, asset frameworks) Understanding of enterprise communication requirements: slide decks, campaigns, sales collateral, enterprise product visuals, and events Knowledge of design tools, digital asset pipelines, and cross-channel production workflows Ability to reason about constraints like brand consistency, accessibility, channel limitations, and production feasibility Who you are You are an active, hands-on contributor, not just a reviewer or approver You create and refine work yourself for high-impact campaigns, messaging, and brand initiatives You use hands-on contributions to set standards, unblock teams, and model craft You think in systems but aren’t afraid to dive deep into individual challenges You balance polish, storytelling, and pragmatism You give clear, actionable feedback that moves work forward What You’ll Bring You’ll shape systems that scale across teams, products, and audiences as the company grows You’ll ensure our creative work is both strategically smart and emotionally compelling, building trust and not just attention How We Take Care of You: Competitive Salary & Stock Options Health Benefits New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy