Creative Director - Brand Narrative

Job Overview

In 1977, Charles and Ray Eames began a film with a picnic beside Chicago’s lakefront. Over the next nine minutes, Powers of Ten traveled out toward distant galaxies and back into the microscopic world inside a human hand.

An enormous subject became a journey you could follow, built around a simple change in perspective. Images, language, movement, and sound brought the idea to life together.

Job Description

That’s the kind of creative thinking we’re looking for at Mercury: finding a compelling idea inside something complex, then bringing together the people and crafts that make it unforgettable.

You’ll turn company strategy, product truths, customer insight, and cultural observations into original concepts for our most important launches, campaigns, and brand moments.

You’ll originate ideas yourself and stay closely involved as they become finished work. Your background might be in art direction, design, or copywriting.

What matters is your ability to develop exceptional concepts, recognize the best idea wherever it comes from, and bring the whole creative studio together to make it real.

Whatever your starting discipline, you’ll bring deep experience in film-led storytelling. You’ll lead Brand Narrative in close creative partnership with your peers leading Brand Design and Writing.

Together, you’ll shape concepts, language, and visual expression from the beginning, bringing distinct perspectives and shared ownership to the work. You’ll contribute strong ideas of your own, invite others to challenge and improve them, and build on theirs.

Key Responsibilities

• We’re looking for a Creative Director to build and lead Brand Narrative , a new team within Brand Creative.
• You’ll lead Brand Narrative in close creative partnership with your peers leading Brand Design and Writing.
• You’ll contribute strong ideas of your own, invite others to challenge and improve them, and build on theirs.
• That means building its culture, developing its people, and establishing ways of working that make the entire studio more creatively ambitious.
• The opportunity is to make great work while building a team that can keep making it.
• What you’ll do In your first year, your focus will be roughly 70% leading creative development for our highest-priority launches and campaigns, and 30% building the Brand Narrative function.
• Originate and lead big creative ideas.
• Work side by side with the Brand Design and Writing leads and their teams from the earliest explorations through delivery.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Whatever your starting discipline, you’ll bring deep experience in film-led storytelling.
• Develop ideas that can take distinctive forms across film, social, out-of-home, digital, experiences, and partnerships.
• Deep film experience.
• Experience developing creative people and shaping how a team works.
• New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Benefits and Perks

• #LI-KP1 Total Rewards The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.
• New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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