Director, Creative

Koho Financial Inc.

Job Overview

Location

KOHO (CAN)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Define and champion KOHO’s multichannel creative vision across campaigns, product storytelling, content, events, social media, and digital platforms, with accountability for business outcomes.
• Concept and create key creative pieces personally when required, operating as a "player/coach" who remains deeply involved in the creative process.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a multidisciplinary creative team including art directors, designers, copywriters, and producers to ensure exceptional creative output aligned with business goals.
• Set and uphold the creative standard for all brand assets, providing clear direction and feedback on both art direction and copywriting across all mediums.
• Collaborate with product marketing to translate briefs into powerful, cohesive creative ideas that drive engagement and conversion.
• Oversee photo and video shoots in partnership with the Studios team and freelance production crews, ensuring quality and brand consistency.
• Brief, manage, and evaluate freelance talent and external agency partners during campaign surges and high-volume periods.
• Establish and scale creative processes, review cadences, and quality standards as the in-house creative studio grows.
• Present creative concepts and final work to senior stakeholders with clarity, conviction, and strategic alignment.
• Build systems, structures, and workflows that enable high-quality creative output at scale while maintaining agility and innovation.
• Direct art direction and copy direction for campaigns, brand identity, web, product interfaces, video, events, and social media content.
• Supervise external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and all aspects of photo and video production as needed.
• Ensure creative work consistently reflects KOHO’s mission to financially empower Canadians through clarity, bold thinking, and human-centered storytelling.
• Partner closely with leaders across Growth, Lifecycle, Product Marketing, and Product teams to connect creative excellence with measurable business impact.
• Actively utilize AI tools within the creative process to enhance ideation, production, and efficiency while maintaining artistic integrity.
• Foster a culture of trust, autonomy, and high performance within the creative team, aligned with KOHO’s remote-first, asynchronous, and work-life integrated environment.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience leading creative teams and organizations in ambitious, fast-paced environments with significant time at agencies or in-house teams that think like agencies
• A portfolio demonstrating conceptual range across both copy and art direction, with big ideas that work across multiple mediums
• Experience directing video and motion work, not just static design and copy
• Proven ability to actively utilize AI in the creative process today
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, developing talent, and creating environments where creatives can do their best work
• Strong organizational and operational skills to structure teams, allocate resources, and establish effective ways of working

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust
• Flexible hours and asynchronous collaboration
• Salary range of $200,000–240,000 CAD/year with pay transparency
• Commitment to work-life integration, not just work-life balance
• Inclusive, accessible workplace culture with dedicated accessibility support
• Opportunity to shape a new in-house creative studio from the ground up

Skills & Technologies

Remote

$200k-240k

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About Koho Financial Inc.

Koho Financial Inc. is a Canadian fintech that offers mobile-first spending and savings accounts paired with a prepaid Visa card. The platform delivers real-time insights, automated savings tools, no-fee everyday banking, cash-back rewards and optional credit-building features. It partners with Peoples Trust Company to hold customer funds and with Visa for card issuance, while operating under its own financial services license. Targeting younger, digital-first consumers, Koho provides transparent pricing, early payroll access and in-app budgeting analytics to promote healthier financial habits without traditional bank overhead or monthly account fees.

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