Creative Marketing Director

Innova.co

INNOVA · Careers

Creative Marketing Director

Company: INNOVA

Location: Manhattan, New York

Employment Type: Full-Time · Approximately 35% travel

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 annually

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Job Overview

Lead creative development, brand presentation, and marketing execution. This is a hands-on design leadership role: personally develop concepts, layouts, and artwork from initial brief to final production, while directing campaigns, launches, digital content, events, and showroom presentation. Reports to the CEO.

Design & Creative Development

  • Personally design brochures, presentations, launch materials, advertisements, website layouts, and social content.
  • Work directly alongside designers in design files to refine concepts and resolve visual challenges.
  • Translate business requirements into clear creative concepts and finished materials.
  • Refine typography, layout, color, imagery, composition, and visual hierarchy.
  • Own projects through design development, revisions, production, and delivery.
  • Prepare and review final artwork for print and digital quality.

Brand Identity & Standards

  • Maintain INNOVA’s brand book, visual identity, templates, and design standards.
  • Create practical design systems across products, markets, and channels.
  • Strengthen product presentation with clear messaging and cohesive design.
  • Ensure consistent brand presentation by internal teams, representative firms, distributors, agencies, and partners.
  • Provide approved assets and guidance and address inconsistencies.

Marketing Strategy & Campaign Execution

  • Develop marketing plans aligned with commercial priorities, product roadmap, and expansion.
  • Translate objectives into coordinated campaigns with audiences, deliverables, timelines, and success measures.
  • Lead creative execution of launches, advertising, email, and social campaigns.
  • Partner with leadership and sales to prioritize activities.
  • Use campaign performance to improve messaging and future work.

Sales Enablement & Product Communication

  • Partner with sales, product, engineering, and technical teams to understand products and audiences.
  • Turn complex technical information into accurate, visually engaging materials.
  • Develop presentations, brochures, case studies, launch materials, and representative toolkits.
  • Tailor materials for architects, engineers, developers, contractors, distributors, and representatives.
  • Support presentations, meetings, and product introductions.
  • Keep materials current as specifications and priorities change.

Events, Trade Shows & Showrooms

  • Collaborate with the events team on trade shows, launches, and showroom events.
  • Develop exhibition design, signage, displays, and branded environments.
  • Travel for preparation, installation, execution, and on-site presentation.
  • Maintain consistent showroom and customer-facing brand standards.
  • Coordinate with sales, events, operations, and production partners on timing and budgets.

Website & Digital Content

  • Design and develop website pages, landing pages, email campaigns, and social content.
  • Work with developers and review implementation details before release.
  • Coordinate copy, photography, video, and product content.
  • Keep digital materials accurate, current, and relevant.

Team Leadership & Delivery

  • Lead designers through practical guidance and direct collaboration.
  • Set briefs, priorities, quality standards, and deadlines.
  • Give actionable feedback and solve execution challenges.
  • Manage workloads, agencies, suppliers, and budgets.
  • Maintain asset libraries and review, approval, and delivery processes.
  • Own the quality, timeliness, and commercial usefulness of the work.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Significant experience in creative marketing, graphic design, and brand development, including creative team leadership.
  • Strong portfolio showing personally executed print, digital, campaign, and brand-system work.
  • Advanced Adobe Creative Cloud skills, especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop; Figma or similar tools.
  • Excellent typography, layout, visual hierarchy, imagery, and print-production skills.
  • Ability to carry creative concepts through finished artwork.
  • Experience with campaigns, sales enablement, launches, and trade show assets.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical products clearly.
  • Strong project management, attention to detail, and collaborative execution.
  • Willingness to travel regularly, domestically and internationally.
  • HVAC, architecture, building products, or manufacturing experience is a plus.

Portfolio Requirement

A portfolio is required. Candidates should clearly identify their personal design contributions to the work presented.

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